Satellite History - Satellite Industry Pioneers - Video -

[WSInternational]

Many of you may have already seen this video. It has been on the Chaparral website and both of our websites for a while now. I just wanted to share it here with those who have not yet seen it. It's about the beginning of the satellite telecommunications technology and how satellite TV dish antennas came to be developed.

These are the guys who have made satellite communication possible and it's because of them that we have this hobby.

Click below to see the video and feel free to comment.

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[guapoharry]

Thanks for posting that. Even the little commercial at the end was OK.

Now for the important part... How does one get a copy of that report / research referenced about building low cost satellite antennas?:

NASA Tech Brief: (PDF)

Low-cost quasi-parabolic antenna

 

[guapoharry]

looks like the spam filter tagged me. Since the part about building antennas is sort of off-topic here, maybe it would be better to talk about that here instead.

 

[dfergie]

looks like the spam filter tagged me. Since the part about building antennas is sort of off-topic here, maybe it would be better to talk about that here instead.

It was Moderated and I've been busy most of the day and didn't catch it till a little while ago...