my home made dish for c band

[kolitha]

I am retired telecom engineer from sri lanka. in my spare time i thought of constructing c band dish.
here are pics of the project and hope it will open discussion.

[laitram]

Hi kolitha

What a great job.

Hope this will encourage some members to do the same.

Maybe can you post specificities & if you already do comparative tests.

Great job again

BR

[kolitha]

I have not done many comparisons yet. It was possible to receive about 13 sats from 60e to 105e. mast hight limits the movement I must increase the hight.
EXEL file attached, which i used to calculate the values.
focal length=85cm
diameter =230cm
f/d =0.37

[FOXSports]

Thanks for sharing, but I want to ask a question about signlas from that dish, I have to know - is it have a good signal or not and signal of thet dish better than we can bought ?
tnx!)