Channel Master 36" Satellite Dish, DTN

[bloomdog]

I just bought this eliptical dish on ebay for $11 plus $50 shipping. Does anyone know anything about it? How will eliptical dish behave as far as signal strength? I plan to put it on a motor.

 

[Mr Tony]

eliptical dishes seem to be able to deal with satellite adjacent issues (like Russia Today on IA5).

It will work just fine

 

[bloomdog]

not sure that I understand Iceberg's reply. Can you pelase elaborate?

Do elliptical dishes provide a stronger signal than an oval of same/simialr size?

Does anyone have the manual for this dish? Offset angle = ?

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mr Tony]

Sometimes signals will be low due to an adjacent satellite next door being more powerful. I ran into that a couple years ago with a sports feed. A team would use the same transponder on G3 but next door on IA6 there was another channel that seemed to light up in the evening (news feed probably) that was more powerful than the feed on G3. So a round dish would give really bad results. I put up an oblong (eliptical) dish and it was able to reject the adjacent satellite and focus more on the feed I wanted and gave me great results.

It will give you a smidge better signal than a round dish.

 

[caddata]

The elliptical is seen as a circle when you view it at the 22.5 Degree offset angle. In other words, your elliptical is round from the satellite's view from space.

Harold

 

[caddata]

I put up an oblong (eliptical) dish and it was able to reject the adjacent satellite...

The elliptical dish had better sidelobe rejection, a function of F/D ratio (or how deep the parabolic curve is).

Harold