Satellite Station & Dishes Pictures
Many hams around the world have sent me pictures of their satellite systems, many based on ideas published on this webpage. I have included a reasonable number of these pictures especially when they represented a great idea that you might want to include in your dish system. Click on blue text to link to another website.
W0LMD - Satellite and HF Station
WA7KRP - Round PrimeStar Dish & 435 MHz Yagi
W2CO - What happens to a dish mount in a heavy snow storm if pointed upwards.
DJ9PC - Solid dish with dualband S & L patch feed. Works great despite damage sustained when it ran into his house!
KA0Y - 50' homebuilt dish for EME. 16,000 pop rivets, 5" gun mount. If going through central Iowa, you gotta see this one!
EA8BFK - Satellite station
K9LDW - Light duty dish mount
KG6IAL - Satellite RV
N0VK - Automated satellite station
N7UB - Copper Plumbing (1/8" pipe nipple) for Patch Coax
VE7BPB - Satellite antennas
VK3KOS - 3' Counterbalanced Dish, Dualband patch (S & L) with cover from CDROM case
VK3TBC - Counterbalanced 4' Dish with S & L Patches & 2.4 Filter
W0PHD - 8' Dish on Polar Mount
W2MN - Found this 10' Dish - Free
KB2MVN - 10' Dish - Manual Control with Digital Position Readout
W4HTB - Up and coming urban antenna farm
W4SM - 16' Paraclipse Dish on Machined Counterbalanced Mount with Disk for Future Brake
More pictures of the whole process here.
W6RYO - 12' dish and steel triband patch cut out with plasma torch
W7TYN - PrimeStar on R2D2
W7UPF - 10' dish on tall mounting post, triband patch
W8GSM - 7 1/2' Dish Farm for AO-40 Beacon Copy & Submit
W9IIX - 10' dish and motors
W9NTP - PrimeStar with 435 MHz and 1269 MHz Yagis
W9NTP - 800 lb 15' WWII counterweighted dish on clothesline pole mount
WB5RRR - 7 1/2' TVRO dish & triband patch in his XYL's flower garden. Plastic box for Motor Protectection
WI2W - BBQ faced with Wire Dish. 435 MHz Yagi for Uplink. U100 TV rotators.
ZS6BTD - Homebuilt long focal length 4' dish
WB0DRL - Homebuilt 28' dish with dual band (U & S) patch
VE6BGT - S & L Patches on 10' TVRO. Refrigerator Plastic Bowl and Lid
W8VXH - Dualband S & L Patch & BUD. 6' Dish Manually Pointed
N2MB - 10' BUD with Triband patch feed
W2XB - 6' homebuilt dish with triband patch feed
W0EEC - 60 cm Dish with PVC bearing. PVC long arm for Balance & Moving Precisely
W7NET - Dish and Station Drawing
W0LMD Satellite Mobile
Arecibo - 1000' stationary dish
Green Bank, West Virginia - 330' dish, 140' dish, 75' dishes, copper screened control room
VLA - Twenty Eight 82' dish array in New Mexico
Canadian 80' Dish & 35' dish array
California 20' Dish Array
India Dish Array - 100' Dishes.
Square Kilometer Array