Making the feed horn for my 1.2m maser dish (a la Eduard)

[Andrew Thornett]

OK, you are all wondering what the string is for......and childishly I am not going to tell you!

Andy

[Andrew Thornett]

I should have said this tiny feed horn is to go on end of a Noosat 9000D LNB for 22 GHz water maser observing. 

Eduard has very kindly given me training on how to make this (without string) - the big question is whether I am capable of getting it to work!

So far, I have a 1.2m prime focus dish which I have mounted on my Sky Watcher NEQ6 Pro mount for this purpose. So the current step is to sort out the LNB/feed horn and mount it at prime focus.

I also need to test the LNB to ensure it works with a NESDR SMARTee XTR purchased for this purpose.

Andy

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Subject: Making the feed horn for my 1.2m maser dish (a la Eduard)