> I've repainted my dishes to match the house (some kind of a > sandlewood or something). Basically, put tape on the LNB and > paint them up.
Be very careful about what kind of paint you use. Some paints will actually absorb the signal and render the dish unusable. You really want to use a paint designed for metal rather than house paint. > > Don'ttake this the wrong way but you do know that the dish > doesn't have to aim directly at the satellite. It actually > beams down way higher and onto the dish at about a 45 degree > angle. It's done like this so that they can get the signal > down in between townhouses that are stacked tight together. > You could also plant a bush infront of it if you leave enough > room for the LNB and the arm. > You are way off on the reason for the offset feed. The real reason is that an offset feed gives you the maximum gain for the size of the antenna. If the feed horn (lnb) is directly in front of the dish it blocks about 10-20% of the signal the dish should have received. This means they would have to supply a 20% larger dish to make up for it. The concept you are proposing is a valid one. It is quite possible to put up a fence or other dish hiding object where the dish is hidden from sight but still can see the satellite over the top of the item. This is due to the fact that the dish is actually looking up at a 33% angle relative to the face of the dish. To visualize where the dish is looking. Draw an imaginary line fron the center of the lnb to the center of the dish and then have that line "bounce off" at the same angle and you will see where the dish actually looks in the sky. Bill
_______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
