Dish – Handmade / Homemade

Have you thought of making your own dish? Is it possible to do so? Yes, it is. You can make your own handmade dish whether you want to use metal or wood as the materials to make the ribs.

Please don’t misunderstand if someone say they use wood as the material to make their own dish. The wood is just for the ribs and or the mounting parts. It is not the main reflector as this part is always made of metal or for sure it’s mainly using alluminium. So far, the handmade dish is only on mesh form, and it’s rarely found if someone has made the solid one.

If you can made the dish on your own, you just need to buy the receiver, LNB, and coaxial cable (to connect between receiver and LNB) plus it’s little two connectors. Someone on Tele-Satellite magazine ever said made it from the metal or zinc as the reflector and he used some metal to be the ribs. It’s happened in Afganistan (if I were not wrong). He did that because there are some rules in the country that ban the local people on trading the dish. So he made it by hand.

But, one thing for your count before you make it on your own, that the precision of the dish you make will determine whether the signal you receive from the satellite will be strong or weak, or not at all. So, use the original dish made by the manufacturer as the measurement unit to duplicate. This is not illegal, you just take the measurement for home use, not for selling.

After having the measurements: diameter, the ribs curve, and the focus of the dish, start the work by finding the good material that you can afford in your place. Then install the dish by your own.

Stay with us for more details on making this homemade dish. See you in the next article.

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