What is Reddit's opinion of Premiertek Outdoor 2.4GHz 24DBI Directional High-Gain N-Type Female Aluminum Die Cast Grid Parabolic Antenna (ANT-GRID-24DBI)?

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Man, prices have gone up on these things. I bought one off Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Premiertek-Directional-High-Gain-Parabolic-ANT-GRID-24DBI/dp/B005M8KU3W/) a few years ago and it was $46 shipped. I just took a look at camelcamelcamel and prices started going up around November for some reason.

This should work for you. If you can fix it on the wall at least, it's Aluminium so rust proof. And is cheaper than that 14dBi thing.

EDIT: Just wait awhile for other peeps to say whether or not this is a good idea, I'm only 19 and have absolutely no experience in this stuff at ALL. But this does seem the best solution to me.

EDIT 2.0: Link applied to "This".

This antenna modified to better receive at 1.7 Ghz (cut a piece of pvc pipe to act as a spacer moving the secondary reflector out a bit), rtl-sdr.com v3 dongle, Sawbird GOES LNA & a Raspberry Pi 3 running goestools.

This antenna - https://www.amazon.com/Premiertek-Directional-High-Gain-Parabolic-ANT-GRID-24DBI/dp/B005M8KU3W with a 3d printed spacer to tune it to 1.6ghz, a nooelec goes sawbird, rtlsdr.com v3 dongle, and a raspberry pi 3b with goestools.

https://www.amazon.com/Premiertek-Directional-High-Gain-Parabolic-ANT-GRID-24DBI/dp/B005M8KU3W would that work?

Sure! I'm using a 2.4 wifi grid antenna like this one

and a Sawbird GOES LNA+filter powered by an RTL-SDRv3 over biasT.

Then to get the software running, I followed this guide. I modified one of the config files to remove the map border overlay and used this custom LUT from USRadioGuy for enhanced colors. The guide is for a Raspberry Pi but I run it all on an old laptop running Ubuntu just fine. I attached the Sawbird and dongle right at the antenna connection, and sealed it all away in a waterproof box.

Once that's all running, you get full disk color composites about every half hour. I took those 48 images and threw them into Adobe Premiere, with video transitions in between each picture to smooth the animation out a bit.

This one looks decent from Amazon... these are getting harder and harder to find at good prices.

I got my last one on ebay, pretty sure it was from this seller.

On to the DC Short thing.... Yes. These are DC Shorted/DC Ground dipole elements for the actual "antenna" mainly for matching purposes. No you can't use it directly with an SDR that has the Bias Tee always on, you either need to turn your Bias Tee off, use a DC block, OR put your LNA in there to use the voltage.

I'm using a SMArTee XTR -> SAWBird+ -> Lorch Bandpass -> DC Ground Wifi Dish... it work's fine. The SMArTee XTR specifically has a self resetting fuse that will trip if you short it to protect the SDR, so no worries there.