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Old 21-08-2009, 05:27 PM
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AussieSky (Greg)
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The twin dipole arrangement gives greater signal strength, and allows you to 'steer' the antenna.
The dipoles on my setup are 6M apart, and the masts are 3M high, but 4 should be ok.

There is a lot of useful info here:

http://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov/help/help.htm

and the antenna construction manual is here in pdf format:
http://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov/telescope/ant_manual.pdf


Heres a pic of my setup:

www.aussiesky.net/misc/Jove_antenna1.jpg

Greg
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