12ft Paraclipse Ku compatible?
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I do not do Ku on a big dish . I have a couple of offset Ku dishes . But I have read it has to do with hole size , less tham 1/4" ? And dish curvature accuracy .
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I think I read on here somewhere that the holes need to be as small as a pencil lead. 1/8" (.125) or less for sure to get good KU signal.
Edit: That's a heck of a dish.
Edit: That's a heck of a dish.
If it's like mine, you'll have no problem picking up Ku signals. I use to have it set up to receive Ku and the signals came in strong and clear. Have fun.
Yeah its just like yours
thanks hermitman. how do you like it ? do you still use it ? to receive KU?
Used a 12' Paraclipse for many years for C and KU-Band. The KU-Band is a challange as the beam width is very narrow and a mild wind would often play havoc with keeping the dish aimed. The mechanics were tight, but wind loading would often cause signal loss or degradation. I personally prefer a 90cm - 1.2M dish for motorized KU-Band use, as they produce adequate gain and reliably receive KU signals during windy conditions.
If you stay with the button hook type LNB mount, stabilize the arm with guywires attached to 3 or 4 points at the rim of the reflector. The button hook design is adequate for C-Band reception, but was not stable enough for KU. It would tend to wobble slightly resulting in the feedhorn moving out of the focus point. I eventually replaced the button hook arm with 4 - 1" arms to support the scaler.
If you stay with the button hook type LNB mount, stabilize the arm with guywires attached to 3 or 4 points at the rim of the reflector. The button hook design is adequate for C-Band reception, but was not stable enough for KU. It would tend to wobble slightly resulting in the feedhorn moving out of the focus point. I eventually replaced the button hook arm with 4 - 1" arms to support the scaler.
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I had a Paraclipse 12' dish that I bought back in the late 70's. Around 1988 I retrofitted it for KU and Horizon to Horizon mount. I still had the original (large hole) mesh on it from when it was new in the 70's. It worked good on KU, and C-Band and with FTA receivers. But as SatelliteAV mentioned you need to use something other than the button hook mount for the LNB. I converted mine to a tripod mount. It took me a few tries at getting it mounted correctly, but once I did, it worked great.
Would You Mind Taking Some Pictures Of It please. kind of give me an idea of what it looks like?
I sold it two years ago, when I moved from South Florida to here. I will look through the archives and see if I have any pictures of it.
Ok, I found two that were taken of it, before the H to H retrofit. I will look again later to see if I can find any with the H to H motor and tripod LNB mount.
http://lrddesigns.com/C-Band/
I took Some Mesh Off Another Dish and the mesh is the same i used steel wire and put it over the hole. ill have pictures later i fixed one panel . ill take a picture soon
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The main thing is to keep the consistancy of the mesh flow, of the repaired area, as close to the mesh was before it was damaged. This is so it will reflect correctly to the LNB.
from the pictures do you think it will be ok. its as close as i can get it and real tight againest the other
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