Dish Sizes

[GreatFTA]

Hi Everyone!
Does anyone know the dish sizes?
I know that:
30 inches = 75 cm
33 inches = 85 cm
36 inches = 90 cm
Please describe all dish sizes up to 10 foot. I am no good understanding the metric stuff, especially on satellite dishes.
I reckon there are some of us who gets frustrated determining the dish sizes from the cm and meter sizes.

 

[charper1]

Here is a common length conversion tool.

http://www.onlineconversion.com/length_common.htm

90cm = 35.43"
85cm = 33.46"
75cm = 29.53"

 

[GreatFTA]

Great!!!
Thank you so much, Charper1.

 

[Mr Tony]

1m=39.667 inches
1.2m=48 inches
1.8m=6 feet

 

[Reinhold]

Rule of thumb conversion:1"=2.5 cm
1m=100cm or about 40"
Devide inches by 2.5 to get cm,
multeply cm by 2.5 to get inches.
This is very close.
Reinhold.

 

[kstuart]

When I saw the thread title, I thought that perhaps you were going to talk about the difference between actual dish size and the dish size number used in marketing.

For example, a Winegard 76cm dish is:

Effective aperture

76 cm (29.9 in.)​

Antenna height

87 cm (34.3 in.)​

Antenna width

80 cm (31.5 in.)​

I'm not sure how "effective aperture" is derived.

It reminds me of TV sizes or stereo amplifier power...

 

[GreatFTA]

Thank you guys!
This site has really been a great blessing for me since I got into the FTA hobby!
I want to understand all I can about the FTA hobby. By asking about how to understand the metric sizes of the dish, I would know what is being said.
NOW I know why metric system was taught back when I was in high school. I thought it was all crap!