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Re: the nature of parabolic reflectors

Subject: Re: the nature of parabolic reflectors
From: "Rich Peet" <>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 18:55:46 -0000
> There is one more measurement. Plunk a straightedge across the dish 
and 
> measure from that to the vertex, the dish depth. It's the ratio of 
that 
> divided by focal length that's the critical measure in Sten's 
analysis. 
> We can try and line your dish up with his graphs.
> 

Looks pretty close to 1. Maybe as high as 1.2. Will check it closer 
when I get my Sharp-tailed Grouse Blind time in shortly.  Wish my 
preamp would get back here.



Rich



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