I remember reading the article, and think it was Radcom....? I can't help with the year, though.

"It was quite simple, you emailed him and asked for a price. He replied. You emailed him your order, paid by paypal and sat back for 3 weeks". Yes, to be fair I have successfully bought 23cm and 13cm

Well, that's better! Having taken off the patch and orientated it correctly, my signals through the satellite are much improved. Before, a carrier left a more or less coherent pale blue line on the HD

Ah. Yes. Now you mention it......doh! It'll be interesting to see how much difference it makes, quite a lot, I hope - back to the blowlamp......

The connector that I used had no extended PTFE, but I drilled the clearance hole for the centre conductor to the same diameter as that in the socket - it did occur to me that the arrangement at that p

Parts arrived and assembled - many thanks to Dave for organising this. The 1mm brass was a good choice, I think, it makes a nice stable unit, and is thick enough to take a decent thread for the connec

Update: All sorted, thanks, I'm on shf chat. Thanks for the chat, John! 73 Adrian

Sorry for slightly off topic post, but this prompted me to install Zello. I have found one group called "shf chat" and one called "shfchat" are these both in use for the same purpose here in UK? Is it

If I made things to that standard, I'd want to have them on display, not on a dish behind the shed! :o) I do enjoy seeing examples of excellence, though, and it does make me try just a bit harder....

Well, I've sawn off the septum from my Octagon LNB and used a plastic 22mm pipe coupler to add a short length of 22mm copper pipe. Just using this, I can receive the Oscar100 NB beacon at one S point

On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 02:48 PM, <polishamps@...> wrote: "I bought a kit poty and it had the conical lens supplied but I found that with my setup a lens from a rocket LNB worked better". That i

"Hello Adrian, look here some info from PE1CKK": http://www.hybridpretender.nl/ Thanks Jerry, very useful. "Whether a 0.02 loss tangent matters for a short-ish lens is an interesting question. It is a

Hi Neil et al, Thank you for the replies, and for the offer of materials. Having posted my query, I decided to order a 500mm length of 20mm Nylon-6 for £16 inc postage. The supplier claims that it is

Hi, I am preparing to build the dual feed, based on the Dubus article. It mentions an "experimental" dielectric lens made from Nylon-6. At present, the cost of purchasing a length of Nylon-6 rod is on

The outage / restoration was very well timed for me, many thanks for that, and, of course, for providing the beacons in the first place! On Friday 26th I took my new SGLabs 13cm transverter plus just

I would like a set if that helps. Context: First venture onto 13cm. SG Labs transverter due this week, 24 ele DL6WU Yagi under construction. The dual feed sounds like a good solution for a portable sa