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<blockquote data-quote="trev1978" data-source="post: 938385" data-attributes="member: 369429"><p>Hi all,</p><p></p><p></p><p>I have a 1.85m prime focus dish. I bought it second hand 4 years ago- it was previously at a bookmakers shop. I have been using it to pull in the Nordic beam on 4.8’E. I always felt I wasn’t maximising the signal as I didn’t think that I got the uplift in signal that I should have when I upgraded from a 1.2m offset dish. My feeling was that I never truly found the true focal point of the dish.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I decided I would try to get to the bottom of it. I made a little device with a laser sight (see photograph- I know it is not a work of art but it does work!). I have fine-tuned this so that it throws the laser perpendicular to the surface the three screws are resting on (the three screws basically act like a tripod). I first drew a circle in the middle of the dish to match the spacing of the screws and placed the device. From this it would appear that my lnb is located too high.</p><p></p><p></p><p>This is where I am getting confused! I am correct in saying that a perpendicular point taken from any place on the dish should land on the focal point? I drew a larger circle on the dish close to the rim. My thinking was that if I placed two of the ‘tripod’ screws of the device on this radius line it should also throw a point at the focal point. However my lnb wold probably need to be two foot further out to pick up a point from here. Even just looking at the dish you would know that a perpendicular point from the surface wouldn’t be close to the existing lnb location. However the lnb legs wouldn’t be designed to go out this far.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Is my understanding of the reflection correct or have I got this terribly wrong?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Thanks Trev</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trev1978, post: 938385, member: 369429"] Hi all, I have a 1.85m prime focus dish. I bought it second hand 4 years ago- it was previously at a bookmakers shop. I have been using it to pull in the Nordic beam on 4.8’E. I always felt I wasn’t maximising the signal as I didn’t think that I got the uplift in signal that I should have when I upgraded from a 1.2m offset dish. My feeling was that I never truly found the true focal point of the dish. I decided I would try to get to the bottom of it. I made a little device with a laser sight (see photograph- I know it is not a work of art but it does work!). I have fine-tuned this so that it throws the laser perpendicular to the surface the three screws are resting on (the three screws basically act like a tripod). I first drew a circle in the middle of the dish to match the spacing of the screws and placed the device. From this it would appear that my lnb is located too high. This is where I am getting confused! I am correct in saying that a perpendicular point taken from any place on the dish should land on the focal point? I drew a larger circle on the dish close to the rim. My thinking was that if I placed two of the ‘tripod’ screws of the device on this radius line it should also throw a point at the focal point. However my lnb wold probably need to be two foot further out to pick up a point from here. Even just looking at the dish you would know that a perpendicular point from the surface wouldn’t be close to the existing lnb location. However the lnb legs wouldn’t be designed to go out this far. Is my understanding of the reflection correct or have I got this terribly wrong? Thanks Trev [/QUOTE]
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