A Review of the Discovery Dish for Inmarsat Reception

Over on the Airframes Community forum, user 'thebaldgeek' has posted a review of our Discovery Dish product. If you weren't already aware, the Discovery Dish is an easy-to-set-up and use backyard dish system for weather satellites, Inmarsat, and Hydrogen line radio astronomy.

In his post, thebaldgeek unboxes the dish and feed boxes, showing all the individual parts. He goes on to bolt the dish together and show it fully built. In the rest of the post, he compares the Discovery Dish with Inmarsat feed against three other options, including a GPS puck, our RTL-SDR Blog Active Patch Antenna, and a homemade 7-turn helix antenna.

As expected, the Discovery Dish performs the best, with the 7-turn helix coming in second, followed by the RTL-SDR Blog Patch, and finally, the GPS patch. He rightly notes that the dish does have increased wind loading over the other options, and this needs to be taken into account when positioning and mounting.