Thread: Some of my dishes and a satellite antenna.

Here are my dishes listed in my signature

Diseqc Gibertini 104cm different LNB now though old Invacom finally chucked in replaced with Technomate TM-1 Quad.

Channel Master 1m used for picking out satellites when needed. Right now pointed at 22°W for Reuters feeds.

Also may interest you guys in North America my Revox AS-2000 Horn Antenna it's from the early nineties originally only worked with KU DBS band back then but the LNB been swapped out for a Universal, don't worry the lnb outputs have been sealed up with amalgamated tape, the photos were taken the day it was fitted.

Not photographed but now near the 104cm Gibi is a 90cm Gibertini 4 LNB Dish with 9e-13e-19.2e-28.2/5e that also allows me to pull in some of 7e

The Channel Master 1m which I am currently getting bits to motorise it with a actutator previously I posted my restoration of a Polar Mount.

My back garden is a mess.

Could you, please, share more info about this Revox AS - 2000 Horn Antenna? Is it good to receive FTA ? What are its dimensions? Is its inner surface a cone, or, paraboloid of rotation? Cheers, polgyver

Here is a photo of it I've found online. It has a Fresnel lens inside, they were designed to replace 60cm dishes.

There is a company making similar horn antennas today in Egypt and even motorising them on diseqc motors.

>> Revox AS-2000 << That's one odd lookin' "dish" I remember, many years ago, of plans in one of the hobbyist magazines to construct a C band fresnel out of plywood and, at least, aluminum foil. Glad I didn't attempt. If I remember right, it was HUGH!

Very nice. We like pictures, how bout a couple of the countryside?

Originally Posted by remlap

Here is a photo of it I've found online. It has a Fresnel lens inside, they were designed to replace 60cm dishes.

There is a company making similar horn antennas today in Egypt and even motorising them on diseqc motors.

I googled Revox AS - 2000, but did not get any info, except the same picture on UK satellite. What satellite do you receive through it? What is its diameter? What material is the Fresnel lens made of? Cheers, polgyver

Originally Posted by polgyver

I googled Revox AS - 2000, but did not get any info, except the same picture on UK satellite. What satellite do you receive through it? What is its diameter? What material is the Fresnel lens made of? Cheers, polgyver

Astra 1 cluster at 19.2e as it was designed for, but see no reason why it wouldn't work with other high powered satellites/clusters over Europe

30cm diameter

Fresenl Lens I believe is perspex.

Cheers

remlap,

Is it FTA friendly, and if so what satellite(s) do you receive with it. It looks so portable and easy to use on a small tripod if it works.

Thank You.

Unfortunately, it would not have adequate gain for the FSS KU satellites here in North America. The European FSS satellites have much higher EIRP in the main footprints and it is often practical to use lower gain dishes in the target distribution regions.

It would be fun to mount a DBS circular for Dish/DirecTV/Bell here in North America!!!