pics of the dish farm...post yours too :)

[Esquire122]

Greetings Everyone,

I know it has been awhile since I have posted. I just scored these two antennas with gravity roof mounts.

They were abandoned by a local agency and were slated to go to the dumpster. So, I volunteered to take care of that task.
Time to go download the manual and look at the dish specs.

 

[gpflepsen]

Great find, great dishes.

Sent from a phone, probably while I'm driving over the speed limit through a school zone with construction workers present.

 

[armadillo_115]

Not in my 'dish farm' but I happened across this while searching Craigslist nation wide.Didn't want to start a new thread.Wonder what it was used for? Sorry pic quality is poor.

 

[RimaNTSS]

This is antenna for tooway internet, however could also be used for reception of SAT signals only

 

[Mr Tony]

Not in my 'dish farm' but I happened across this while searching Craigslist nation wide.Didn't want to start a new thread.

that is what this thread is for
http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/thr...slist-dishes-for-you-to-take-a-look-at.327363

 

[Jason S]

Not in my 'dish farm' but I happened across this while searching Craigslist nation wide.Didn't want to start a new thread.Wonder what it was used for? Sorry pic quality is poor.
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This is part of my farm. It's a Wild Blue internet dish with the TX/RX removed and an LNBF substituted for use on 30W.

 

[gpflepsen]

So, how many reflections until the signal is degraded to a noticeable degree?

Sent from a phone, probably while I'm driving over the speed limit through a school zone with construction workers present.

 

[Jason S]

So, how many reflections until the signal is degraded to a noticeable degree?

Sent from a phone, probably while I'm driving over the speed limit through a school zone with construction workers present.

Polgyver has done some tests of reflections and long focal points, here is one thread: Receiving FTA signal after double reflection

 

[Titanium]

There is no signal loss with this design based on a Gregorian sub reflector. In this case, the Gregorian type mount is used to place the tria in a more suitable location, shorten the length of the support arms and reduce the materials needed to support the heavy feedhorn mounting platform.

 

[RimaNTSS]

In fact, Gregorian system perform up to10% better than simple PFA or offset dish. It also reduces X-pol and eliminated side-lobes. That is a beauty of Gregorian system.

 

[Esquire122]

I was out of town this past weekend and when traveling through Georgia, I saw this dish.
It even has the old FCC registration number to prevent interference from other 4ghz users.
If you only have room for one dish, I guess you would go for this wide arc one.

Respectfully,
Esquire

 

[RimaNTSS]

There is my CM 1,2m polar-mounted dish taking arc 90*E-30*W. Currently is only Ku-band, but C-band will be added soon. Setup is not finished yet.

 

[RimaNTSS]

Have installed this CM 1,8m dish today. As usually, setup is not finished.

 

[KennyR]

My current setup.

 

[kittyhas1000legs]

The balcony farm is pretty crowded. There's barely any room for the dish!
1 bell pepper, 1 tomatillo, 3 different tomatoes, and 4 eggplant. The cat litter buckets serve as a makeshift drip irrigation system (which might be a little TOO drippy, but that's what the cork is for.) The dish is finally set to reliably receive 103W (boresight), 97W, and 91W. Under the table I have an RCA VHFlo/hi/UHF antenna hiding.

 

[danristheman]

Nice Job on your setup Kitty.

 

[RimaNTSS]

Finished installation of old (but good) Swedish dish SMW-OA-1600. Tuned it to 7 satellites with Quad LNBs. Doing cabling was fun , still have sore fingers . There is picture how my farm looks right now

 

[Tylorert]

Thanks for the comments it was fun figuring out how to make it all work. Incidentally the dish behind the window has great signal.
Bob

Hows the rain fade?

 

[Wescopc]

Hows the rain fade?

No problem.
Bob

 

[Tylorert]

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