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I'll be honest, I've read this reply half a dozen times and still can't understand what's trying to be said.

Start by making sure the pole is truly vertical, not just 'that's pretty good on a spirit level' but really vertical, ideally with a digital angle finder. If you can reach the LNB you can make a cheap and cheerful plate for circular signals using a polyethylene chopping board. Just cut it to...

I've heard back from him and have the diagram. He's currently experimenting with the design and adding some extra lengths of copper wire to each copper plate, hopefully he's going to send me a photo to show what's he done but he says he's improved some transponders by over half a dB so I'll...

John, let me ask the guy that made the one I'm using, it may take a few days to get a reply from him but I'll let you know what he says.

We've made plates out of a few different materials with good results, sometimes upto 1dB stronger than the usual supplied slab. Both CD cases and a nylon chopping board can make very effective plates.

What an interesting project! I wonder what is special about the Arm and Hammer soda because it's not something we can get this side of the Atlantic but I'm sure there is an equivalent if we know what the magic ingredient is?

Back to square one the LNB, I misread the detailed info although the title does call it extended coverage, presume they mean wideband down to 3.4GHz so I will look into getting one of those from Tek. I'm in East Sussex too, literally a stones throw from the 0° meridian line and down on the coast...

IN what must be the coincidence of the year I checked my emails this morning to see one from Ebay alerting me to a Eurostar extended C band LNB listed as new old stock for £30 but with make an offer. I've managed to get it for £25 so worth taking a chance on it even if it's down on my other...

Trawling through the Tek2000 website earlier to see if they sell separately the polar mount fitted to the 2.4m Jonsa dish I came across their extended coverage C Band LNBf with dual IF's. Has anyone tried one, how does the regular C Band performance compare to what's already out there like the...

That's an interesting mount, the dish looks like the generic Jonsa/Fortec Star but I've never seen a polar mount available for it so is this something that Tek2000 manufacture themselves? Just one question if I may, is declination set using the two bolts in this pic?

Having played with a few different dishes on diseqc motors and polar mounts it's something I've thought of doing once everything has been fined tuned. The conclusion I reached in the end was not to do because I'd rather a dish move round the pole due to extreme wind than be warped or broken due...

I'll see your 1$ and raise you another to double their profit if they include shipping to the UK :nana

I hadn't spotted the converter from them, thanks for the link and yes it is a good price. Where did you get your LNB's from, tried Googling them but can't find anywhere that shows prices or suggests they actually have stock.

I was out in Cyprus last October and made contact with the person selling them as I wanted to collect one while I was there but he didn't get back to me until after I'd returned to the UK, pity because it would of saved the high shipping cost for one unit. Arabsat is still listed with S-band...

Benjamin, are these from the supplier on Cyprus? I've been thinking about getting one just to experiment on S-Band, Arabsat used to use it but not sure what is left on the band. Have you compared the performance of this model against the new version, on both C and Ku?

Thanks Brian for a really useful and informative reply. There is so little information about performance I started working on what I could find which are simple gain figures but some of the claims made me question them. Still not really sure what route to take on this, it is primarily for C Band...

I've got the chance to relocate my dish from it's current location to another spot in the garden that will give me much better coverage of the easterly horizon. I already have a 1.2m that gets me close to 70°E of south (I'm at 0.003°E) but the new spot means the 1.8m should be able to reach...

Thanks, when it purchased it was made by a company called Precision Antennas here in the UK, now they're Elite Antennas but the process is still the same with all the reflectors being hand spun. I've since replaced mine with a 1.8m version shown in the photo, all their models up to 2.2m are...

Looks similar to the base I made for my 1.2m. I wanted something that would allow fine tuning of the vertical after it had been installed.

Feel free to delete this post if it's OT to the thread but thought you may like a UK perspective on the Jonsa/Fortec Star. Over this side of the pond they have a very bad name, for three reasons although I think it's somewhat unjustified. First is build quality, reported that the petals are...

Thanks, I'd not have found that on a search. Looking at the specification it won't be wide band enough for use over here which is a shame but once the weather warms up I'll spend a day experimenting with it to compare performance.

At the moment I'm using a LNBf on my C band dish, currently an ESX241 although I also have a C1PLLw when it's not being used on a 1.5m offset. I have in my box of bits a dual band corotor that I'm curious to try. It's a bit weathered but the all important throat and feed seem not so bad. It was...

I reckon you could be right, that's a brand name that seems to appear quite a bit in searches so hopefully it's a good dish. As an indication of how rare these are in the UK I've been playing with sat tv since the mid 80s and have travelled quite a bit around the country but can only recall...

Bit of a mystery then, I hadn't actually thought about counting segments to compare but I'll trawl some old BUD pics later to see if I can find a match. Either way I'm going to take him up on the offer as it's too good a deal to miss and only about an hour away from me.

This is where it gets slightly complicated, I do have one low res photo of it but at some point in the past the sections were covered with steel panels that were formed to the same curve as the original mesh so there's not many clues in the photo but I'll post it anyway. It does come with an...