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Old 06-20-2005   #17 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by waytostoned
So if I am understanding this correctly, the Dish 500 dish can be used, but mount the can dead center like the primestar setup?

I was thinking maybe the can have to be offset, like this setup...
http://www.trevormarshall.com/biquad.htm

(I know it is a biquad, but you get the idea. )
Right. Perhaps I should have been a bit more explicit, but I thought it was pretty obvious from the primestar link that the feed horn was mounted on the VERTICAL CENTER LINE of the dish, but offset down. Just like the original feed horn. In fact, if you could put an LNB in between the two on the 500, it would look at a bird at 120. (If there was one.)

Ooops. Brain fart. One bird is at 110 and the other is at 119 for Dish 500.

So the middle one would be 115 ish....
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