How should I mount standard KU LNB to Channel Master Ku round dish?

[ken2400]

So I have this Channel Master dish.
I think it maybe a 1.2 M? See pics

Would it be worth it to get the feedhorn that is made for it or just find a better way to mount the KU LNBs I have to it?

Thanks

 

[KE4EST]

Is that LNBF that is on there situated so that the face of it is in the same spot as the original?

 

[Trust]

Looks like a Prodelin dish , about the lnb position , see the pict. of my 890
@ Ken2400 can you show a full picture of the backside ?

 

[ken2400]

The back of the dish I have. Thank you for posting yours.

 

[RimaNTSS]

It is Prodelin, not Channel Master. The simplest way to mount Ku-band LNB on it, IMHO, is something like that.

 

[Trust]

It is Prodelin, not Channel Master.

RimaNTSS , does this one also has a different openings angle ?

 

[RimaNTSS]

does this one also has a different openings angle ?

I do not know. Maybe ken2400 can measure parameters of the dish he has.
But your dish (in post #3) has opening angle ~60* (Channel Master has 80* opening angle).

 

[a33]

And if it is round and of offset type, does it have a non-flat dish face?

Greetz,
A33

 

[RimaNTSS]

Of course, it is round but with not flat face.

 

[a33]

Of course, it is round but with not flat face.

OK.

BTW: I have just succeeded in deriving an equation for calculating the corresponding width, to the height and depth measure of such a non-flat paraboloid dish;
so that the offset angle and all other dish specifications (focal length, topstring, bottomstring, etc) can be calculated from these input variables.

So basically you get the same width value, as with the water method (lying the dish horizontally, and filling it with water, as shown in the picture in John Legon's article); but you don't have to use any water.

Needed inputs for the calculation:
1) dish hight
2) depth of the dish in the middle: from dish surface to the line top-bottom of the dish
3) dish width (from left to right), measured exactly above the middle of the dish
4) depth of the dish in the middle, but now measured from dish surface to the line left-right of the dish.

(I first had a much more complicated algorythm, with many repeated identical steps; but now I succeeded in deriving an equation to reach exactly the same result in one step. )

So if anybody, or the topicstarter, needs to find the specs on a non-flat paraboloid dish; I could calculate them for you.


I will probably 'publish' the equation in the near future.
(I still want to make some drawings, to clarify further how the measurements should be done, so that the use of the equation will be perfectly clear.)


After that, I still want to check sometime, if such dish-specs calculations also can succesfully be done for toroid dishes (such as that of RimaNTSS).


Greetz,
A33