Simple dual band dish feed for Es’hail-2 / QO-100

DKARS April 2019 front coverThe April 2019 issue of the free DKARS magazine features an article in English – Simple dual band dish feed for Es’hail-2 / QO-100 by Mike Willis G0MJW, Remco den Besten PA3FYM and Paul Marsh M0EYT.

Their article, on pages 18-23, describes an easy to build 2.4 and 10 GHz dish feed, using commonly available materials, for Es’hail-2 / QO-100 deployment. The feed consists of a LHCP patch antenna for 2.4 GHz and a waveguide feed for 10 GHz, to be placed in the focal point of commonly available and cheap offset satellite TV dishes with f/D’s of around 0.6

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Dutch Kingdom Amateur Radio Society (DKARS) http://www.dkars.nl/index.php?page=magazine_uk

Additional information on Es’hail-2 /QO-100 can be found at
https://amsat-uk.org/2019/02/10/qatar-oscar-100-web-receiver-now-live/