Ha! Truly a funny post to see my name.
The 7.3m we installed was at Ft. Greely, AK. We did have a 7m in Omaha,
but it wasn't one we installed, but was pre-existing. I have since
installed a 3.7m "normal" dish at our colo, so don't use it any longer.
FYI - I don't know if this news lists allows attachments, but I could
probably find a photo somewhere of the AK installation . . . it has the
Army person standing next to it for size. Understand, at that latitude,
it was essentially pointed at the horizon, and I probably get better
gain with a paper plate in the lower 48.
Particularly with terrestrial interference, the parabolic curve seemed
to have more response to a more stable signal than size; our best
installations used a higher focal depth (deeper, if you will), as it
tended to filter ground noise so much better, even if the actual
realized reflectance back at the LNB/LNA was less . . . a 3.56m dish
built in the 60's that we repurposed had the gain of a 3.1m dish, but
was rock solid with signal and almost never lost a packet unless that
packet was lost at the uplink.
Stonie
On 2021-10-08 19:38, Patrick L. Francis wrote:
so who has the largest satellite dish in operation... the last I
remember I think it was stonie cooper :) ... and has anyone done gain
efficiency analysis with the DVBS-2 signal? :)
--patrick
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