[Amps] Black heat shields
Ken Brown
ken.d.brown at hawaiiantel.net
Sun Dec 19 12:59:26 PST 2010
>
> It is standard and normal to paint satellite dish faces FLAT WHITE to
> scatter the IR from the sun.
>
The Smithsonian Submillimeter Array dishes have a special texture to
their surface to help scatter IR ( and thus not fry the receiver front
end ) while still maintaining a good enough surface quality to work
properly at the submillimeter wavelengths the receivers are tuned to.
The dishes are natural aluminum colored.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submillimeter_Array
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