So, I suppose this is actually about messing around with a mini-BUD.. hope it's ok to post in this sub forum with the big-guns!
I've had a Prodelin 1.2m fiberglass dish for quite some time, but never did much with it. Hated the BUC sucking up my other polarity on the OMT. I was curious what it was going to take to adapt it to take a standard WR75 flange.. turns out, the BUC uses a WR75 output! I took it off, and slapped a nice Ku LNB in it's place and now I've got both polarities with a single feedhorn. It doesn't stay too well in the holder originally supplied for the dish, so I'm going to need to get/make a small clamp to hold it in place.
And then, I realized, the transmitter (BUC) holders were nearly the exact diameter of a Co-rotor (or any C-band feedhorn assembly, really). It was at this point, I decided to go overboard and attach a co-rotor to the dish instead. I already had a conical scalar ring, so I just put it on the co-rotor and away I went!
For a 4ft diameter offset dish, it works OK, but I also don't have a good test environment. My backyard pushes right up to another house, and to even get Ku normally, my other small dish is up on a pole whereas this guy has to sit on the ground.
Picks up some higher-power C-band transponders, but not many. Ku is rather solid though! I'll probably just revert to the dual Ku feed eventually, but I certainly had a good day with this set up!
Pictures of the setup are attached.
I've had a Prodelin 1.2m fiberglass dish for quite some time, but never did much with it. Hated the BUC sucking up my other polarity on the OMT. I was curious what it was going to take to adapt it to take a standard WR75 flange.. turns out, the BUC uses a WR75 output! I took it off, and slapped a nice Ku LNB in it's place and now I've got both polarities with a single feedhorn. It doesn't stay too well in the holder originally supplied for the dish, so I'm going to need to get/make a small clamp to hold it in place.
And then, I realized, the transmitter (BUC) holders were nearly the exact diameter of a Co-rotor (or any C-band feedhorn assembly, really). It was at this point, I decided to go overboard and attach a co-rotor to the dish instead. I already had a conical scalar ring, so I just put it on the co-rotor and away I went!
For a 4ft diameter offset dish, it works OK, but I also don't have a good test environment. My backyard pushes right up to another house, and to even get Ku normally, my other small dish is up on a pole whereas this guy has to sit on the ground.
Picks up some higher-power C-band transponders, but not many. Ku is rather solid though! I'll probably just revert to the dual Ku feed eventually, but I certainly had a good day with this set up!
Pictures of the setup are attached.
