Dish review

[cyberham]

Necessity is the Mother of invention. Note the use of a miscellaneous bracket, piece of thin rock, support cord and cable ties to position my C-band LNBF just in the sweet spot of the dish focus. And I can swap between this LNBF and my Ku LNB quite quickly when I wish.



And check out this homemade bracket by RimaNTSS in Latvia:

 

[4311wade]

Necessity is the Mother of invention. Note the use of a miscellaneous bracket, piece of thin rock, support cord and cable ties to position my C-band LNBF just in the sweet spot of the dish focus. And I can swap between this LNBF and my Ku LNB quite quickly when I wish.

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And check out this homemade bracket by RimaNTSS in Latvia:
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That is very creative.
Thanks for sharing

 

[clucas]

I never had luck with things like a support cord. I salvaged a couple elements from an old over the air antenna and used them to help support the lnbf. Much more solid.

 

[cyberham]

I never had luck with things like a support cord. I salvaged a couple elements from an old over the air antenna and used them to help support the lnbf. Much more solid.

I agree. I put the cord on actually to support the larger C-band LNBF. The unsupported arm never moved much anyway though. I took the cord off eventually. I can install the proper support arms which I have if I'm not too lazy. Or compensate by locating the custom LNBF holder where it needs to be for maximum received signal.

 

[caramel]

Is that dish truly 39" from edge to edge?
I bought a 39" inch dish on eBay a while ago but turned out the actual size of it is 34" from edge to edge.

 

[cyberham]

Is that dish truly 39" from edge to edge?...

Good question. The proper measure is the horizontal dimension from edge to edge. Sometimes sellers are quoting the vertical dimension.