Thread: Measuring a Dish

I know we've hashed this out a few times, but since I have yet to have my hands on a brand new BUD (instructions and all).

Here's what has me confused:

My " 5' " BUD:

Measures 63" across the face, 68" along the face of the dish.



63" is a tad bigger than 5', and 68" is bigger than 5.5'. This is strange to me.

63" is nearly exactly 160 cm though


Now on to my " 8' " dish.

It measures 90" across the face, 97" along the face.

90" is exactly 7.5', 97" is just over 8'

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They are both Winegard dishes, and the across the face measurement seems to be the only one that makes sense.

Sound right?

If so, maybe Winegard called my 160cm dish a 5' for the metric system impared . What I've been calling my 8' dish might actually be a 7.5'!

That seems about normal for the course. I have an older 10 ft aluminum that measures 130 inches across all directions plus it has a series of preformed 2 ft extensions that bolt on the edges to make it 178 inches across in all directions. Only problem is the extensions have a different focal point so I removed them. Then a mesh dish my younger son let me have looks like a spider web and is 118 on the short sides and 124 on the long sides. In both cases they have 10 ft in their descriptions. Accuracy doesn't seem to be a requirement among many of the dish manufacturers through the years.

SD