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abhisheknag
Post subject: S-band High Gain Antenna
Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 4:32 am
 
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Joined: Thu May 18, 2006 3:08 am

Posts: 2

Location: Bangalore, India

Hello,

We are looking for and S-band (2200 - 2300 MHz) dish antenna with a minimum gain of 35 dBi and G/T of minimum 12 dB/K at a 10 degree elevation. Antenna diameter should be about 3 m.

I Googled for some S-band antennas but, did not find anything that came close to these specs. This is for a satellite application.

If anyone has any information about where we could source such an antenna, please let us know.

Thanks and regards,

Abhishek


 
 
nubbage
Post subject: S-Band High gain Antenna
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 7:20 am
 
General
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Joined: Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:07 pm

Posts: 218

Location: London UK

Try

1 The world's virtual monopoly supplier of Satcom Earth Station Antennas (if you must) Andrew Corporation

2 RFS (part of Alcatel)

3 GTE = Comelit or Cellwave divisions

PMS Antennas in the UK was recently bought by Andrew 8-(

The thing about satcom (tranmitting) earth station antennas is they must be Type Approved by the satellite service provider, so you cannot just buy a dish of the right spec and hope it will be acceptable.

G3OAD


 
 
abhisheknag
Post subject: Thank you!
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 11:47 pm
 
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Joined: Thu May 18, 2006 3:08 am

Posts: 2

Location: Bangalore, India

Thank you, G3OAD.

Posted  11/12/2012