[Ground-station] Planar antennas

[Jordan Trewitt]

ThinKom Solutions: https://www.thinkom.com/technology/

They've been really popular for the antennas for Internet on planes before
Starlink came online.

This is a good video going over their technology at a IEEE presentation.
https://youtu.be/GnrXnQ7eVgY?si=i8_ty6K4BBS46mfi

-Jordan
KF5COQ

On Tue, Jan 30, 2024, 20:21 KENT BRITAIN <wa5vjb at flash.net> wrote:

> Do you have a link for that antenna?   My DuckDuck search only found a CB
> antenna company.   Kent
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> On Tuesday, January 30, 2024 at 11:50:07 AM CST, Jordan Trewitt <
> jmtrewitt at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Isn't this the same technology that ThinKom uses on their VICTER antennas
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> they have one platter that changes azimuth, another for elevation and
> another for changing between LHCP and RHCP. It seems like they're only
> really good for X-band to E-band just reading their brochures about their
> individual antennas and phased arrays for their gateway antennas.
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> -Jordan
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> On Wed, Feb 5, 2020, 18:37 KENT BRITAIN via Ground-Station
> <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:
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> Do you see any large metamaterial lens out front?
> If so it would be nearly as thick as it is wide.
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> Very different technology.
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> On Wednesday, February 5, 2020, 5:25:39 PM CST, Daniel Zeleznikar <
> daniel.zeleznikar at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Sounds similar to this tech... is it the same?
> https://www.thinkom.com/technology/
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> On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 2:59 PM KENT BRITAIN via Ground-Station
> <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:
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> A Concept drawing.
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> Much easier ways of doing it and it completely leaves out
> the logic systems necessary to control it.
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> Kent WA5VJB
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> On Wednesday, February 5, 2020, 3:39:17 PM CST, KC9SGV via Ground-Station
> <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:
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> Maybe this is old news...
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> https://www.mq.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/556805/MQ-2015016-Planar-High-Gain-Antennas-with-Variable-Beam-Directions.pdf
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> Bernard,
> KC9SGV
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> Sent from my iPad
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> --
> Dan Zeleznikar
> daniel.zeleznikar at gmail.com
> (216) 233-6232
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