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DISH SETUP: Single sat, Multi-Sat & Motorised
easy guide to calcullate the focal point of the off-set dish....
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<blockquote data-quote="Birdseye" data-source="post: 183681" data-attributes="member: 216746"><p>I've heard many times that this is impossible. But surely if you coat the dish with aluminum silver car paint or coat it in tin foil it will reflect light to a focus point which you can find on a sunny day with a bit of paper and experimentation??? (As its an offset dish I assume you'll have some idea where the LNB should be already.)</p><p></p><p>As the dish is a reflector it will work the same for both light and radio waves of the size used in Satellite. I've heard stories about shiny transparent dishes burning out LNBs for this very same reason.</p><p></p><p>Obviously before using it for real, you'll need to un-silver the dish.... or cook your LNB. Good luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Birdseye, post: 183681, member: 216746"] I've heard many times that this is impossible. But surely if you coat the dish with aluminum silver car paint or coat it in tin foil it will reflect light to a focus point which you can find on a sunny day with a bit of paper and experimentation??? (As its an offset dish I assume you'll have some idea where the LNB should be already.) As the dish is a reflector it will work the same for both light and radio waves of the size used in Satellite. I've heard stories about shiny transparent dishes burning out LNBs for this very same reason. Obviously before using it for real, you'll need to un-silver the dish.... or cook your LNB. Good luck! [/QUOTE]
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