A customised IceConeFeed tuned to 2200 MHz at the prime focus of a 3 m KTI/SAMI mesh dish, feeding an S-band LEO ground station.
Category: Customer Stories
SP3OHM: a DIY IceConeFeed on a Triax dish for QO-100
Michał Słomkowski, SP3OHM, printed and wound the IceConeFeed DIY helix for his QO-100 station in Poland. Three photos of the build on a Triax offset dish, radome off and on.
The IceConeFeed through a Nordic winter
We develop and test our antennas in Bavaria, where a hard winter is a few days below zero. So for the question of how the IceConeFeed handles a real Nordic winter, we asked the operators who run it there. Here is what they report. A note on what the IceConeFeed is, since it matters here:…
Urban Radio Astronomy with the L-Band H1 Helix
How a 10-turn L-Band H1 helix detects the 21 cm hydrogen line from a city balcony in Jena — VNA data, full signal chain and reproducible galaxy transits.