BUD (Big Ugly Dish) for EVDO reception?

thebordella · EVDO User Joined: 12 Mar 2007 Posts: 26

Yet another question in my quest to improve my EVDO signal...(please see my earlier post, "need brilliant ideas" for a more detailed description of my situation.)

Atop my house is an old C band dish. A good ol' BUD. It is a 10 or 12 foot mesh dish with a C band feed horn. It was setup and used by a previous owner; I've never used it, other than rotating it with the old gearbox just for fun. ("Missile Command, go!")

It can be aimed in the general direction of the evdo tower, although I don't know how precisely (I assume its movement arc is built-in and designed to correspond to satellite positions).

Would this dish be helpful at all for concentrating/boosting the evdo signal? Say, if I somehow mounted the omni antenna somewhere near the feed horn?

Of course, the easy answer is "give it a try" but roof access is difficult. I'd have to get someone to help if there's any technical basis for this.

I realize that C-band operated in the 4-8Ghz range. I don't know if this dish is useful at all for reflecting 1.9Ghz signals.

Any ideas?

thanks!

shooter64738 · EVDO User Joined: 07 Sep 2007 Posts: 41

That dish should work fantasticly for EVDO. I played around with one last winter for 2.4ghz wifi. Adjust the screw jack that rotates the dish a little, and point the dish straight ahead, towards the tower, and install a dipole, or a biquad on it for feed, and you'll get fantastic signal gain from it.

shooter64738 · EVDO User Joined: 07 Sep 2007 Posts: 41

Here is a primestar dish I reused for WiFi last winter. Then reused it again for EVDO this summer. It uses a biquad feed (made for 1.9ghz), and it works fantasticly for me.

Rangerw · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:18 pm Post subject:

There ya go shooter
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