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What to do with a dish network dish?a

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Feb 19th 2013, 01:02
KC9UNY Joined: Aug 1st 2011, 12:05 Total Topics: 0 Total Posts: 0	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 Super Moderator Joined: Apr 4th 1998, 00:00 Total Topics: 0 Total Posts: 0	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 ARRL Senior Lab Engineer
Feb 19th 2013, 12:19
KC9UNY Joined: Aug 1st 2011, 12:05 Total Topics: 0 Total Posts: 0	Cool! I will remember that idea when it comes time for me to do something!
Mar 11th 2013, 23:02
KD2ADL Joined: Apr 4th 1998, 00:00 Total Topics: 0 Total Posts: 0	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 Super Moderator Joined: Apr 4th 1998, 00:00 Total Topics: 0 Total Posts: 0	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 Joined: Jul 11th 2020, 22:44 Total Topics: 0 Total Posts: 0	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 Super Moderator Joined: Apr 4th 1998, 00:00 Total Topics: 0 Total Posts: 0	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.