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<blockquote data-quote="ArloG" data-source="post: 1161867" data-attributes="member: 418555">Terryl is correct. A better and much easier project would be to investigate geostationary satellites.Less headaches and there are kits that include as little or as much needed.If building your own home brew ground station, the helical antenna and an old satellite dish would be enough to snag a signal.A helical antenna inherently has wide bandwidth. So you have a little wiggle room in the design and is more forgiving.With less gain than a properly constructed patch antenna.The signals will be RHCP (from memory). And remembering that when reflected from a dish, an LHCP design must be remembered.Signals will be relatively weak. I've built patch antennas for Inmarsat, aero l-band decoding. The signal literally screams in.GOES so far has been very weak. I need a bigger dish. Or just bite the bullet and buy a prebuilt one.You can't skimp on cable and connectors with this stuff.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ArloG, post: 1161867, member: 418555"] Terryl is correct. A better and much easier project would be to investigate geostationary satellites. Less headaches and there are kits that include as little or as much needed. If building your own home brew ground station, the helical antenna and an old satellite dish would be enough to snag a signal. A helical antenna inherently has wide bandwidth. So you have a little wiggle room in the design and is more forgiving. With less gain than a properly constructed patch antenna. The signals will be RHCP (from memory). And remembering that when reflected from a dish, an LHCP design must be remembered. Signals will be relatively weak. I've built patch antennas for Inmarsat, aero l-band decoding. The signal literally screams in. GOES so far has been very weak. I need a bigger dish. Or just bite the bullet and buy a prebuilt one. You can't skimp on cable and connectors with this stuff. [/QUOTE]

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