dish question

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thassian

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Hi

I live in greece and have been given a hivion 9090x decoder and a amstrad Sky box (not sure if the sky box works) plus a 1.2 meter dish, however the dish looks like someone has replaced the the back bracket resulting in 4 extra holes which have been plug with nuts and bolts (bolts to the front of dish) so my question is will the dish still work or do i need to replace it.

Many Thanks
 
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As long as the dish's parabolic shape hasn't been disrupted, it should still work fine... :)

The only way to find out though is to try it, you don't have to mount it, just sit it on the ground or an Analoguesat patented Satellite dish ground mount (aka Car Tyre!!!), and find a satellite to try it on... :)
 
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It will be fine. The area/gain lost by the exess bolt holes is neglible compared to the size of the dish.

If you wanted to cover the holes up, you could use self-adhesive copper tape.
 
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