DishDick
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Dear All,
I know you can add petals to prime focus dishes to increase their reception area, but is it possible to add petals to an offset dish to increase their reception area? I ask as I would like to try and attempt to get some of the missing vertical transponders. I am lucky that one of my neighbours used to have an engineering company and would welcome a challenge.
I thought that adding 30 cm all round (making dish 3.6 x 3.3m) could be done by using a section of the current outer 30 cm to make the mould, then making 8 petals that clipped onto the side of the dish. Thus the curve of the dish would be maintained.
Thoughts please.
I know you can add petals to prime focus dishes to increase their reception area, but is it possible to add petals to an offset dish to increase their reception area? I ask as I would like to try and attempt to get some of the missing vertical transponders. I am lucky that one of my neighbours used to have an engineering company and would welcome a challenge.
I thought that adding 30 cm all round (making dish 3.6 x 3.3m) could be done by using a section of the current outer 30 cm to make the mould, then making 8 petals that clipped onto the side of the dish. Thus the curve of the dish would be maintained.
Thoughts please.