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Your local household waste disposal area (tip) is a great source of parabolic dishes which are very usable on the microwave amateur bands - and it's environmentally friendly to re-cycle them!
 
Your local household waste disposal area (tip) is a great source of parabolic dishes which are very usable on the microwave amateur bands - and it's environmentally friendly to re-cycle them!
  
Finding the feed point
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==Finding the feed point==
  
 
The easiest way to find the feed point is just carefully replace the LNB with the feed or replacement LNB in exactly the same position.  However this is not always possible - but luckily there are a great number of pages on the web showing how to find the point:
 
The easiest way to find the feed point is just carefully replace the LNB with the feed or replacement LNB in exactly the same position.  However this is not always possible - but luckily there are a great number of pages on the web showing how to find the point:
  
 
http://www.satsig.net/22-deg-offset-dish.htm
 
http://www.satsig.net/22-deg-offset-dish.htm

Revision as of 07:38, 23 April 2018

Your local household waste disposal area (tip) is a great source of parabolic dishes which are very usable on the microwave amateur bands - and it's environmentally friendly to re-cycle them!

Finding the feed point

The easiest way to find the feed point is just carefully replace the LNB with the feed or replacement LNB in exactly the same position. However this is not always possible - but luckily there are a great number of pages on the web showing how to find the point:

http://www.satsig.net/22-deg-offset-dish.htm