The gain of the dish is going to be proportional to the size and freq that it's used with.
A 3' would work just as a 30' dish would except the gain and directivity of the 30' dish would be more. Now there are things like feed point distance and inpedence that would also play into the efficency of the dish but what it all comes down to is how you feed it and if you plan on using the horn that's on the dish or build your own.
My guess(tm) is that they used the MMDS frequencies from 2.5 to
2.7GHz. There was also a band at 2.1GHz for TV distribution. As I vaguely recall, the feed had an RF amplifier and downconverter inside, which probably will need to be "converted" to 2.4GHz to work. Something like this article: |
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Also, please note that the maximum gain from a 0.6 meter diameter dish antenna is about: gain = 9.87 * Dia^2 / wavelength^2 * (feed efficiency) gain = 9.87 * 600mm^2 / 125mm^2 * 0.4 gain = 91 dBi = 10 log(91) = 19.5dBi The 40% efficiency (that's the 0.4) is probably optimistic. I don't know the exact size of the STV dish, but I suspect it's close.
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