As I had mentioned in the reflector discussion, my municipal permit allows my dish antenna to be up to 15 ft in diameter, so a project that will possibly precede the erection of the two towers is to expand the diameter of my EME dish from 12 ft to 15 ft. I’ve been looking at how other hams have done it, and I think that the following are the best examples of what I would like to do:
This increase in diameter should have a theoretical gain change from 11.3dB to 13.6 dB at 1296 MHz.
I would be interested in knowing any experiences by other hams who have modified their dishes for larger D. Anyone tried doing it to a Tek2000 dish?