Crowd Supply Discovery Dish Teardown Session: Thursday 30 November Noon PST
Crowd Supply is hosting Teardown Session 38 on Thursday 3- November at Noon PST time which will feature the Discovery Dish. Join us for this livestream where I will be talking about and showing the Discovery Dish prototype.
Discovery Dish is currently being crowd funded over on Crowd Supply. It is designed to be an easy entry to the world of L-band weather satellites, hydrogen line radio astronomy, and Inmarsat reception. The Discovery Dish aims to be the start of an ecosystem of hardware designed to get users set up with satellite reception, including a planned companion light-duty antenna rotator.
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Is Discovery Dish compatible with PCB antennas, such as Vivaldi or log-periodic?
I would put a broadband PCB antenna in the focus to perform licensed ham radio experiments.
Thank you.
Oh, I have just seen your answer here:
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/discovery-dish-pre-launch-a-lightweight-dish-and-feed-for-l-band-weather-satellites-and-hydrogen-line-reception/
I am so absent minded! Sorry about it.
Feel free to modify the feed however you like, but you’d need to 3D print your own bracket for a Vivaldi or log-periodic feed.
Thank you for your answer.
Nice talk! Can’t wait to receive mine.
Why would anyone set the crowdfunding goal for this $100 dish at $100,000? It looks like a make me rich quickly scheme. Now 13 days left and only 39%. Well, I cancelled my order!
If it doesn’t get funded everyone gets refunded anyway.
But it’s most likely going to be funded – the facilitator will put their large reseller orders in during the last few days of the campaign.
We have to create a number of molds and NRE for this product which has a high fixed initial cost. So we would like a larger upfront payment to pay for these molds. The dish is $175 if you include a feed which is required, and some people will order more than one feed + the box. So on average say $250 per order, 400 people. With the reseller order being up to half, it’s definitely attainable!
What an id***!
This comment aged poorly didn’t it. It’s even gone over the funding goal.