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<blockquote data-quote="Vipersan" data-source="post: 647852" data-attributes="member: 325666">Hi friends ..Managed to find some time to make one of DOS's plates ..Preliminary tests on a foul rainy day prove interesting though not yet conclusive ..My first test was the Pentagon channel on 1 West ..With my T plate I'm get a badly broken pixelated picture today ....but not unexpected in these weather conditions ..Sadly No picture at all using the DOS plate ..However ..Switching to Nile Drama (ERTU) on same sat ..produced solid pictures with the DOS plate ....as it does with the T plate ..On this channel there was little or no difference in signal level with either plate ....But on the Pentagon channel ..the difference was considerable..I'll try some more experiments when the weather improves ...btw ...what are you guys using to stick the foil to the plastic ?I'm currently using a simple glue stick ...but its anything but permanent ..I'm thinking of cutting another piece of plastic to form the outer layer of a foil sandwich ..This will increase the overall thickness to 2mm ...but will stop the foil strips becoming loose..rgds 2 allVS</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vipersan, post: 647852, member: 325666"] Hi friends .. Managed to find some time to make one of DOS's plates .. Preliminary tests on a foul rainy day prove interesting though not yet conclusive .. My first test was the Pentagon channel on 1 West .. With my T plate I'm get a badly broken pixelated picture today .. ..but not unexpected in these weather conditions .. Sadly No picture at all using the DOS plate .. However .. Switching to Nile Drama (ERTU) on same sat ..produced solid pictures with the DOS plate ....as it does with the T plate .. On this channel there was little or no difference in signal level with either plate .. ..But on the Pentagon channel ..the difference was considerable.. I'll try some more experiments when the weather improves ... btw ...what are you guys using to stick the foil to the plastic ? I'm currently using a simple glue stick ...but its anything but permanent .. I'm thinking of cutting another piece of plastic to form the outer layer of a foil sandwich .. This will increase the overall thickness to 2mm ...but will stop the foil strips becoming loose.. rgds 2 all VS [/QUOTE]

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