Subj : Satellite Antenna
To   : All
From : Spaceman Spiff
Date : Mon Aug 23 2004 10:24 am

I am planning to make a NOAA orbital satellite receiving station to capture
some of those great satellite images. I will be using WX Sat for my computer
software, run the audio from a ICOM R7000 receiver.

I am looking into what the best antenna would be. A lot of guys make a simple
turnstile antenna. A friend of mine uses this and he gets ok images. I think
the gain is low. I am wondering if an array of 1/4 wave ground planes with
groups offset at various angles would work, or if I need to build several
yagi's \ + /.  Any thoughts or insight will be appreciates.

The freqs and info are:
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