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What to do with a dish network dish?a

Feb 19th 2013, 01:02

KC9UNY

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My family had Dish, but we didn't like it, so we switched to something else. Dish never wanted their antenna back though... So what do I do with it? My dad wants to throw it away, but my creative teenage brain tells me I can do something with it somehow. I have a limited budget, and a grandfather who will help. What can I do with the Dish dish? What would be the best, easiest to use or most workable or easiest to use? How would I do it and what would I need?
Feb 19th 2013, 11:39

W1VT

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http://www.w1ghz.org/10g/antennas.htm

Paul W1GHZ has an online antenna book that tells you how to use a DSS dish on 10GHz. You could boost the range of a simple Gunn diode transceiver with a dish antenna.

Zack W1VT
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Feb 19th 2013, 12:19

KC9UNY

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Cool! I will remember that idea when it comes time for me to do something!
Mar 11th 2013, 23:02

KD2ADL

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Is there any creative way to use a Dish antenna as the basis for an HF antenna? Developments with CC&Rs must allow satellite tv antennas by federal law, so I am wondering if anyone has tried using the framework of the Dish antenna as the basis for, say, a spiral-wound long wire stealth antenna.
Mar 13th 2013, 09:53

W1VT

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The Freedom to Display the American Flag Act of 2005 is more useful--just put a reasonable display of the American Flag with a aluminum flagpole and use that as an antenna.

Zack Lau W1VT
ARRLSenior Lab Engineer
Mar 31st 2021, 15:17

K5RGK

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I recall an article about cutting a slot into a satellite dish as a disguise antenna for VHF/UHF use in HOA situations. I believe it's called a "slot antenna", and is apparently very successful.
--Ron. KA5ITO
Apr 15th 2021, 08:21

W1VT

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https://w6nbc.com/articles/20xx-dishslot.pdf
Making a slot antenna out of a dish.
The original manuscript on the author's web site.
MAR 2016 - QST (PG. 37)

An Efficient 2 Meter Antenna Disguised as a TV Satellite Dish
(Feature)
Author: Portune, John, W6NBC
The new digital QST has an archive for viewing issues of QST since 2012.

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