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<blockquote data-quote="moonbase" data-source="post: 1086068" data-attributes="member: 178786">I gave a history of the evolution from Precision Antennas to Elite Antennas via Andrew and Q-Par in one of my earlier replies.Elite Antennas started up in 2010 using the old Precision Antennas tooling. Unfortunately, Elite Antennas went into voluntary liquidation in April 2019.Unless the Serial Number does not follow the conventional system or it has been transplanted, it indicates a 2.8m dish. If you measure the diameter of the rear mounting ring on the dish and it is approximately 1200mm then a 2.8m dish will have approx 800mm of land between the outer edge or the rear mounting ring and the rear peripheral ring that the dish surface wraps around on the rear side.As the dish is wider than your 3m tape measure we have to assume the serial number does not follow the usual convention that was used by Precision Antennas? There is no need to source a longer tape measure, just measure the length of one of the reinforcing rods on the rear side of the dish and the diameter of the rear mounting ring. From those two measurements a good approximation of the dish size can be obtained.Irrespective of the true size, it is a lovely dish and very high quality.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="moonbase, post: 1086068, member: 178786"] I gave a history of the evolution from Precision Antennas to Elite Antennas via Andrew and Q-Par in one of my earlier replies. Elite Antennas started up in 2010 using the old Precision Antennas tooling. Unfortunately, Elite Antennas went into voluntary liquidation in April 2019. Unless the Serial Number does not follow the conventional system or it has been transplanted, it indicates a 2.8m dish. If you measure the diameter of the rear mounting ring on the dish and it is approximately 1200mm then a 2.8m dish will have approx 800mm of land between the outer edge or the rear mounting ring and the rear peripheral ring that the dish surface wraps around on the rear side. As the dish is wider than your 3m tape measure we have to assume the serial number does not follow the usual convention that was used by Precision Antennas? There is no need to source a longer tape measure, just measure the length of one of the reinforcing rods on the rear side of the dish and the diameter of the rear mounting ring. From those two measurements a good approximation of the dish size can be obtained. Irrespective of the true size, it is a lovely dish and very high quality. [/QUOTE]

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