This 3D-Printed Satellite Antenna Is Fantastic!

[@neilfoster814]

That little dish did really well on the signal quality. Great job Gabe!

[@Chris-j6x7p]

When I first got started 3D printing, I went with an Ender, but it was nothing but headaches. Switched to a Bambu X1 about a year ago and my printing issues are practically non-existent. I can’t recommend Bambu printers enough! Such a game-changer!

[@theod0r]

I've been using a Anycubic for a while and that one had some issues, and now I got a sovol sv06 which has worked really well in the last year

[@NotADoctor558]

@saveitforparts I bet they would send you one if you reached out.

[@LudoTheGreat]

I second the Bambu printers. they are a serious game changer. if you are not into printing multi color and only want to use your printer every once and a while with a single color, the A1 or A1 mini without the AMS are super cheap (compared to their other printers and even some Enders or Ender clones.

[@DaveO-te1iv]

I've had 3 different Enders, then a Sovol SV06 which was a big step up, but the Bambu Labs A1 I just got is a whole different animal. It no longer feels like an achievement to get a good print. With the A1, it's a given. No levelling, no Z offset setting, nothing. Just send the file and come back to get it when it's done. I know it can't be perfect and eventually I'll get some failures, but this printer is SO much more ready for prime time than anything I've ever used, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this to a new user.

[@mrw1160]

I personally got a Qidi printer which I have no complaints about, every time I store it and turn it back on after a while I usually have to recalibrate the auto bed leveling with that little plastic sheet that you put under the printer nozzle and set its height otherwise I get spaghetti. It does use a nice gcode slicer that I think is compatible with the bambu printer.

[@DDDD-qb8lu]

WOW, perfect idea for distributing cheap non-standard antennas!

[@fiendlybrds]

Yay another video! You have really been on an awesome roll!

[@jeremyjedynak]

Videos like this one are why I'm subscribed to this channel. Great work!

[@Jimmy-Dubz-low]

I do love how with all this cable cutting going on in the world. A guy can still have a satellite conversation on an 8 Bit computer. Shows the level of redundancy in the system left over.

[@kencreten7308]

You and Adrian of Adrian's Digital Basement are both really enjoyable to listen to. I do a little electronics, and Adrian talks far above my head. But I learn things, it's always fun. I feel the same about your channel. I'm not learning about satellites and antenna's. Very interesting, thanks. If I matters, I love cats. Thanks for letting them be on sometimes.

[@RodBell457]

Love the content!! Fellow Minnesotan and totally relate to frozen hand antenna projects

[@mrw1160]

I love all things sattelite dish! Today's video has been most satisfying! (: I've personally been wanting to print one of these for a while too I have to get around to it now lol

[@DirtyPlumbus]

This is such a great project. I'm actually tempted to dig the 3D printer out myself.

[@mushroomsamba82]

Love the Obvious Plant shirt

[@Pazuzu-2048]

Great episode, Mr. Parts. 👍

[@1208bug]

Cool project Gabe!😊👍

[@JH-jp9sv]

What a fun antenna! Great video! I've been designing and 3D Printing some parts for my basement 80M mag loop this week. All the fun of a proper height dipole with a tiny bit of the noise. Good times. Edit to add: A Discone is a good unity gain TX antenna for 2M/220/440 as well.

[@hobergenix]

Outstanding. I use an ender 3 with a glass bed and bed leveling sensor. One thing that might help is to print that part with a raft. In 3 years I have never had to re level the bed or make any adjustments. Sometimes I have to wait for the bed to completely cool and the part just comes right off.

[@Widefnopen]

Use Blue Painters tape on your print bed with a little cheap hair spray and prints stick much better, once print is done you are able to just peel the tape and also clean print bed!

[@TheChefmike66]

I really enjoyed this video. I dropped out of an Engineering Physics degree in year 3 to become a chef. Ha ha, life choices!

[@theblank-up7hw]

Now I wish I had a 3D printer

[@YetAnotherNotHacking]

Bambu labs a1 mini already

[@brianatbtacprod1989]

Wow that really did a good job.The auto tracking dish did well too, after enough argument. If you get the "outdoor" dome working, are you planning on putting on the roof so it can gather data all the time? Also, if the outdoor antenna and motor won't fit in the dome, you might consider building a geodesic enclosure from closed cell sheet, or 3d printed sections, that is a bit bigger than the plastic dome for the satellite TV unit. Another great video. Thanks!

[@patchvonbraun]

Hey, could you share the STL for your variant of the helix scaffold?

[@ShortBusRejectz]

Ok you’ve out done yourself this video is awesome!!

[@Ziraya0]

Scissors are probably fine if they didn't literally break. Cutting metal isn't particularly abrasive so if they can do it, it'll be fine. It's cutting paper, small rocks glued to paper, or carbide insert tooling that'll mess them up

[@wxfield]

So I actually procured one of those tiny mobile TV motorized antenna's and connected a 2m/70cm antenna to it for amateur satellite. Got it working last summer. But had to replace all the driver electronics with my own.

[@raulhatescheese]

"Earth was better without U" I love that shirt, lol!

[@BedlessBlade]

once you learn the good settings for your printer in my experience you can print pretty much any model.

[@fontenbleau]

Yes, scan that drones!

[@ManMountainMetals]

Wishing you and your family all the best 👍 ❤

[@NeroNORirl]

If you're close to new jersey, you know what to do xD

[@eltanindrac]

Well, I guess I know what I'm printing tomorrow.

[@ArclampSDR]

you need to use supports on the 3d print

[@andrewn7365]

Tall skinny prints can be finicky, especially on "bedslinger" printers where the bed moves for a horizontal axis. Reducing speed and acceleration, reducing jerk (how fast acceleration changes), adding supports and increasing part cooling can help. What did you try? Also, does the nozzle begin to catch on any part of the print during printing? That can be the culprit too.

[@tanbotrt]

Hahah heck yeah dude ! That thing super works ! Downloading now thanks for the video 🤘

[@ostrov11]

Спасибо, отличный контент.

[@patchvonbraun]

You could make a 2x2 array o these things. COMBINE them with a SAT-TV combiner and it would look like some kind of death-ray :) You'd get about 5dB more forward gain as well.

[@mrswiss0364]

I had an ender 3 and it was aufull, There are loads of good ones like Bambu Lab, but i got the Sovol SV06 Plus, and its amazing, works first try and only cost around £250. or the 7 Plus and it runs klipper

[@TheMorningIWokeUpDead]

I think you just had a problems in the printing, because you didn't have supports in it. it's much more stable with a tree :) I have to clean my printer and try that design! Seems to work better than i thought it would... I'm working with music and was thinking about an interesting idea: Have you ever tried or have the equipment for moonbouncing a radio signal. Just thinking of what kind of equipment you need for that and recording it. Would be an interesting thing to do, if it even would be possible with home equipment.. (needs a lot of power) thanks for the video!

[@EBAN4444]

Enclose your 3D printer, the print is most likely cooling on the outside faster, causing the bend. Every 3D print issue I ran into was due to cooling issues. Either on the plate or the main print,

[@a.g8517]

great instructions

[@Thom101]

Bambu A1 is about the price of the Creality Ender 3 V3 pro and is a much better unit. The A1 Mini right now on sale for $180. For the most part I don't have the patients (or the room) for the stuff you do.

[@nickthelick]

I struggle not having enough patients too... 😉

[@UncleBildo]

How would that work for transmitting? Like a hand held beam antenna? Or a scattergun? It sorta reminded me of parabolic mics and immediately I detoured down a rabbit hole.....

[@matthewf1979]

Need supports for some of those taller 3d prints.

[@AbsoluteNothingness750]

i have watched a few of your videos and it has peaked my interest lol. i do have a 3d printer and thinking about getting into this after watching this video. i do have a question though, for the coil, is more better? as in taller or tighter windings? obviously what you have done works great. just curious

[@TheBananaPlug]

If only my Creality 3D printer could print as well as yours.

[@kiloohm]

might get better performance with thinner wire on the helical, I've used mig welding wire with good success for 900mHz to 5gHz.

[@Trent28888]

I like that small dish ya made,that will save ya alot of time and playin around but I will say if u use even RG58 it will work better than the RG174 lookin coax ya use,theres a huge amount of loss in it

[@snakezdewiggle6084]

Cool 😎 Is it parabolic.? The ARRL antennas have no reflector.!

[@BO-D222]

That was helpful. Thanks.

[@scottmackenzie3761]

I am curious on the SWR at 1.2 Ghz

I don't have a 3D printer but I might try and use the dimensions and make the frame out of a light wood then varnish it like a balsa airplane frame.. If I could find a bunch of plastic or fiberglass I might try and use that.. I am saving up now for a Yaesu twin axis rotator and the interface box for computer control and should be able to buy that in the Spring.. The software that comes with Ham Radio Deluxe has Sat tracking and frequency shifting for my FT-847 for the VHF/UHF ones but I will have to invest time and get a USB SDR dongle and that software to do the microwave birds.. I have an old sat TV dish I might try and stick a piece of plastic pipe on and wind a helical antenna for that.. My son is also a ham and does SDR so he might be teaching me soon.. Got 4 months of Ohio bad weather to do the Franken-ham stuff so thanks for doing the proof of concept and making it easy for my old arse..

[@scowell]

Handheld drone-blaster! You're licensed for 1.5kW, right?

[@P3RV-3]

you should have stuck the printed dish on the horn of the other one, so you could try it tracking also.

[@kuukeli]

love these

[@patchvonbraun]

I just buy dollar-store scissors for cutting thin aluminum. They last for several projects, and then you can toss them out, or even sharpen them if you care enough.....

[@dylanwillyams]

looks like ur bed isnt hot enough.(i run my ender 3 bed at 70c) also if ur printing room is getting cold you need to put ur 3d printer in a container of some sort to raise the temp. when its printing in the cold the cooling of the plastic will warp it enough to pull it off the bed.

[@RyanMercer]

🤘🤘📡🛰

[@BradinSiouxCity]

more supports would help with the printing

[@DS-iw5nw]

Can't you get a 2x6 piece of wood and remove that dish off of that tracker? Mount the 2x6 to the tracker and then put the satellite dishes next to each other, one on each side so you can now have both track at the same time

[@markphillips8019]

I've also tried printing that feed with the same results. I'll try your trick to bond the pillars together. In theory you could use it for GOES use too as they are on similar frequencies. Would you please give that a try and show us the results? 73 de NI2O

[@GamingKing545]

it looks like the nozzle is too close try dialing back your z axis offset

[@thevoidedwarranty]

Use fresh & dry pla filament & print very slow. Dont pay attention to the advertised speeds

[@william4all]

Would be pretty easy to make that out of wood too if 3d printers aren't available.

[@stephano6793]

2:30 Trespassing may get you shot🇺🇸

[@TheTsunamijuan]

If you want some help down the road with cad stuff, for 3d printing. Let me know, its highly likely I would be interested in helping. I always enjoy a good project even its just plain crazy and out there :)

[@enlaescnoaprendinada]

pero ponele soportes a las impresiones! XD

[@KRich408]

Get a Bambu printer, your failures will almost disappear! I haven't even looked at my Ender since getting a X1C even my wife can use it easily. She's been printing more than me lately 😮 you don't need a X series get a Slinger if that's all you can afford it will still be 1000% better than a Ender.

[@hawkeyeCH53E]

Bro print it with supports

[@thefunkydad420]

I wanna make one but idk how to use it LOL

[@ColaTai]

Very wah!

[@ChoppazOG]

💪💪

[@euleausberlin]

radio telescope? 🌃

[@juanmacias5922]

I love swearing at Python and C++

[@Devo1987]

What do you think about the drones ?

[@saveitforparts]

They seem to be mostly planes in the distance from the videos I've seen.

[@Devo1987]

@saveitforparts I agree with you completely but they've been reported by police officers they've closed down airports bent over military bases and their security teams on military bases have responded they've been reported around the world to just wanted your input on it you would be the one that would know about signals and whatnot hopefully the government hasn't told you to keep your mouth shut. More input from would be nice

[@chrislaplante5040]

Get a Bambu Labs printer, went from having a 3D Printing Hobby to having a 3D Printer.

[@jakejake-u7t]

huh this one too

[@hawkeyeCH53E]

Doctor Arduino made a ISS / satellite tracker. It just points at them. Fake dish. Told him if he added receive capability he'd have something.

[@StarlancerAstro]

Do you self a favor and get rid of that creality crap and get a Bambu, that way you can focus your swearing elsewhere!

[@dean5263]

🛰🛰🛰🛰🛰