What’s this thing called !?

[Houston]

My Hotdish75 is not perfectly round, it measures about 730mm Horizontal x 800mm Vertical. I understand that it’s Concave and Parabolic, but, is there a name for that specific oval shape (more “view” Vertically, than Horizontally), like, is it Toroidal?

 

[Mr Tony]

oblong?

Thats what I call it

 

[PSB]

Egg shaped

Most offset dish are this shape!

 

[Diamond Jim]

oblong?

Nah, that's in Illinois.


Sorry guys, I couldn't pass that one.

 

[Larry1]

Offset Parabolic....
If you look at the dish from the point of the satellite, it will appear round. The offset helps the dish to be more vertical than a standard parabolic dish which in turn helps to reduce the possiblity of snow, leaves etc, collecting on the dish.

 

[Houston]

Thank all of you for your input, and I suppose "Elliptical" might work too.

 

[Houston]

Though I liked Larry1’s term the best, It could be UPSliptical or FedExical, though I didn’t see any damage to the carton. JJ/BBL

 

[icstephen]

actually i'm positive its a dickfer