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The C-band Tin-Dish challenge
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<blockquote data-quote="aceb" data-source="post: 987281" data-attributes="member: 268811"><p>I say go for it, I've seen so many people slag off the Fortec Star/Jonsa dishes for performance often due to their inability to construct it to a good enough standard, because they're using it on Ku and comparing it to a similar sized dish costing ten times the price or because they've never had one but have read what everyone else says. Obviously you get what you pay for but if a £150 dish is a dB down on £1500 dish then it's probably worth experimenting with.</p><p></p><p>I've found very few (read none) tests of the 1.8 or 2.4 being compared to a similar sized dish on C Band so one needs doing! I've got a 2.4m FS here that I keep meaning to test on C Band but it's finding the time to construct, align and compare it against my 1.8m Precision. </p><p></p><p>The fixed mount is very poor quality indeed and the base ring is rusted quite badly but I was surprised how heavy the petals are, I can't lift them all together when they're stacked inside each so they're not exactly wafer thin. As you say with some home construction I'm sure an adaption could be made so the reflector would bolt onto a polar mount and to that end I've been looking for a mount to come up on Ebay but so far no luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aceb, post: 987281, member: 268811"] I say go for it, I've seen so many people slag off the Fortec Star/Jonsa dishes for performance often due to their inability to construct it to a good enough standard, because they're using it on Ku and comparing it to a similar sized dish costing ten times the price or because they've never had one but have read what everyone else says. Obviously you get what you pay for but if a £150 dish is a dB down on £1500 dish then it's probably worth experimenting with. I've found very few (read none) tests of the 1.8 or 2.4 being compared to a similar sized dish on C Band so one needs doing! I've got a 2.4m FS here that I keep meaning to test on C Band but it's finding the time to construct, align and compare it against my 1.8m Precision. The fixed mount is very poor quality indeed and the base ring is rusted quite badly but I was surprised how heavy the petals are, I can't lift them all together when they're stacked inside each so they're not exactly wafer thin. As you say with some home construction I'm sure an adaption could be made so the reflector would bolt onto a polar mount and to that end I've been looking for a mount to come up on Ebay but so far no luck. [/QUOTE]
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