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Flat Panel Antenna for C-band TVRO?

Posted by Cliff on from the ditching-the-dish dept.

Anonymous Coward asks: "Does Slashdot know of any anyone who makes a flat panel antenna for C-band Satellite TV? The only makers of commercial flat panel antennas that I'm aware of is this one, but it's only KU-band."

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  1. Build your own by unitron · · Score: 4, Interesting

    About 20 years ago Radio-Electronics magazine had an article on building your own out of plywood. Really. It used concentric rectangles that worked as a sort of lens at those frequencies. Like microwave waveguides that somehow use empty spaces as antenna elements, the physics involved was way over my head.

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  2. ok by Monkelectric · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This sounds really cool but WTF does any of it mean? :) Please drop some knowledge on me

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  3. Re:One site by Isao · · Score: 2, Interesting

    FYI, that's not a C-Band antenna, that is a C-Band feedhorn (the part that goes at the focal point of a parabolic or spherical dish).