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Manikm909

Manikm909

Small'ish Dish Man
My Satellite Setup
Channel Master 1.8M on Edision MIO 4K & GTMEDIA Combo, and CM1.2M on Octagon SF8008
My Location
Kent, UK
thinking of applying black patches like a cow effect to my dish - would vinyl stickers degrade signal , or best to paint them on.... ?
 

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thinking of applying black patches like a cow effect to my dish - would vinyl stickers degrade signal , or best to paint them on.... ?
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1.8m channel master?

Vinyl stickers should not degrade the signal, the Precision 2.8m dishes that I got from the S4C auction had some quite large S4C logos on them in vinyl.
Additionally, many years ago, Precision Antennas used to apply their logo to some of their dishes. I sold a Precision 1.8m dish to forum member "aceb" with the vinyl logo on it a good few years ago.

Spray painting might give a better finish, the possible issue with odd shapes of vinyl is bubbling when applied. Not that bubbling would impact the signal, it is just cosmetic if present.
You could use a hair dryer to warm it up when applying to reduce or remove any bubbling?
 
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If you see signal degraded, do not worry, just use the one size bigger dish :cool:
Once I got my 1.8m PFA paint brushed (aerography), the process costed so much that I decided not use it on the open weather conditions, so moved it to the workshop to be used as a painting.
 

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manikm909 said:
thinking of applying black patches like a cow effect to my dish - would vinyl stickers degrade signal , or best to paint them on.... ?
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Mooooooooooooo...
 
u idiots :)

jealous
 
moonbase said:
1.8m channel master?

Vinyl stickers should not degrade the signal, the Precision 2.8m dishes that I got from the S4C auction had some quite large S4C logos on them in vinyl.
Additionally, many years ago, Precision Antennas used to apply their logo to some of their dishes. I sold a Precision 1.8m dish to forum member "aceb" with the vinyl logo on it a good few years ago.

Spray painting might give a better finish, the possible issue with odd shapes of vinyl is bubbling when applied. Not that bubbling would impact the signal, it is just cosmetic if present.
You could use a hair dryer to warm it up when applying to reduce or remove any bubbling?
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@moonbase you're the man!!! respecto

never judges, just says how it is
 
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manikm909 said:
thinking of applying black patches like a cow effect to my dish - would vinyl stickers degrade signal , or best to paint them on.... ?
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Would that not be like a "Red Rag to a Bull" to anyone - such as "nosy neighbours" or "local authority guys" - and get their unwanted attention????:-rofl2
 
jeallen01 said:
Would that not be like a "Red Rag to a Bull" to anyone - such as "nosy neighbours" or "local authority guys" - and get their unwanted attention????:-rofl2
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maybe.....although no one will be able to see it, except my neighbour who SHOULD be sorting out his shambolic fence, so its on him if he doesnt want to see it - he probably wont care anyway - hes happy tending to his garden and not interfering - with us (thankfully)

i was gonna paint it green \ brown to camouflage it, until my mrs said do something fun with it...
 
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