Next stage 1.5m solar cooker radio dish 3/10/2024
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Some cheap aluminium + zinc spray paint purchased from Lidl, UK, and using my cantenna cut for hydrogen as feedhorn.
Solar Cooker 1.5m Parabolic Dish Radio Telescope
Erecting the 150cm (1.5m) Solar Cooker Dish at LRO, and calculating its focal length 28/9/2024
Here is a photo of the dish erected at LRO: Using Parabola Calculator 2 program (Parabola Calculator version 2.0 (tripod.com) https://mscir.tripod.com/parabola/), the dimensions and focal length of my solar cooker…
Assembling solar cooker dish from ebay
First part of assembly process – it is quite big! (1.5m) Andy
Solar Cooker purchased from ebay September 2024
This was mentioned on SARA mailing list – and then I saw someone selling one on ebay UK for £50, unused! This is effectively a 1.5m satellite dish which concentrates…