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<blockquote data-quote="aceb" data-source="post: 988087" data-attributes="member: 268811"><p>The panels probably aren't as accurate as a dish costing thousands but if anyone wants a cheap dabble with C Band then this looks like a go-er, I was given this one FOC so it doesn't owe me anything but I was suprised how heavy it is, I can't lift all six panels and it doesn't deform as I push it around. The base is shocking, it's really cheap and nasty with quite a bit of rust and some holes forming in the bottom ring but it quite well balanced, I'm weighting it all down with bags of ballast but it doesn't attempt to fall over if I remove them.</p><p></p><p>Each of the petals eventually lined up within half a mil of the adjacent one and I strung it using cotton, two pieces per petal, end result were all lengths just touching with no obvious gap. I'm using a scalar that was shipped with my C1 bolted onto the FS arms and the ESX is set where it gave best SNR on the BBC mux on 1W, that equated to 905MM focal distance. I've got another scalar so at some point I'll fix further back on the arms, set the correct FD and then use the other scaler to peak SNR but this was a rough and ready test to see what these are like on C band. </p><p></p><p>I'm more than happy with the results today with quite a few firsts across the sky. I'm just about to test it on 38E then I'll move it round onto 58W, once I've checked that one I'll stick the ESX on the 1.8 and see how it compares.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aceb, post: 988087, member: 268811"] The panels probably aren't as accurate as a dish costing thousands but if anyone wants a cheap dabble with C Band then this looks like a go-er, I was given this one FOC so it doesn't owe me anything but I was suprised how heavy it is, I can't lift all six panels and it doesn't deform as I push it around. The base is shocking, it's really cheap and nasty with quite a bit of rust and some holes forming in the bottom ring but it quite well balanced, I'm weighting it all down with bags of ballast but it doesn't attempt to fall over if I remove them. Each of the petals eventually lined up within half a mil of the adjacent one and I strung it using cotton, two pieces per petal, end result were all lengths just touching with no obvious gap. I'm using a scalar that was shipped with my C1 bolted onto the FS arms and the ESX is set where it gave best SNR on the BBC mux on 1W, that equated to 905MM focal distance. I've got another scalar so at some point I'll fix further back on the arms, set the correct FD and then use the other scaler to peak SNR but this was a rough and ready test to see what these are like on C band. I'm more than happy with the results today with quite a few firsts across the sky. I'm just about to test it on 38E then I'll move it round onto 58W, once I've checked that one I'll stick the ESX on the 1.8 and see how it compares. [/QUOTE]
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