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Declared "dish dimensions " v "effective dish size"!
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<blockquote data-quote="RimaNTSS" data-source="post: 1027388" data-attributes="member: 312276"><p>[USER=176704]@jeallen01[/USER] thanks for starting this discussion. </p><p>Effective area (working area) of the dish is one of the main parameters of it. And, of course, in offset antenna case, only horizontal dimension really matters and it describes in the best way surface of the aperture. The bigger horizontal size better reception. Some (I call them unhonest) sellers (even companies) trying to better sell their products announce bigger sizes for their antennas. Will not mention the names of manufactures but there a lots of them. Almost for sure, if you see an add on the second hand market that 1.4m antenna for sale, it is almost certain that antenna is not bigger than 1.2m. </p><p>As a good example, it is already mentioned before, I would repeat Channel Master. If they say 1.8m antenna it is really 1.8m horizontally. If they say 1.2m antenna, be sure it has working area 1200x1300mm. Nothing more nothing less.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RimaNTSS, post: 1027388, member: 312276"] [USER=176704]@jeallen01[/USER] thanks for starting this discussion. Effective area (working area) of the dish is one of the main parameters of it. And, of course, in offset antenna case, only horizontal dimension really matters and it describes in the best way surface of the aperture. The bigger horizontal size better reception. Some (I call them unhonest) sellers (even companies) trying to better sell their products announce bigger sizes for their antennas. Will not mention the names of manufactures but there a lots of them. Almost for sure, if you see an add on the second hand market that 1.4m antenna for sale, it is almost certain that antenna is not bigger than 1.2m. As a good example, it is already mentioned before, I would repeat Channel Master. If they say 1.8m antenna it is really 1.8m horizontally. If they say 1.2m antenna, be sure it has working area 1200x1300mm. Nothing more nothing less. [/QUOTE]
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