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To: Bobalu

With a reflector that large the movement of the feed where there is gain to point off a bit must be only a few tenths of a degree, depending on frequency.


5 posted on 01/11/2018 8:02:35 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

To be technically precise the reflector is spherical and not perfectly parabolic.

This in fact allows use of the reflector far away from 90deg without any astigmatic aberrations...just a diminishing gain the farther off axis.

A simple parabolic satellite dish can in fact be used several degrees off-center. This has been done for a long time with small ground-based antennae, i.e. systems for home reception of TV signals. They do suffer from a bit of astigmatic loss.


6 posted on 01/11/2018 8:18:21 PM PST by Bobalu (12 diet Cokes and a fried chicken...)
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