[Amps] Black heat shields

[Mike]

All the direct TV ones I have seen are gray

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From: amps-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces at contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Ron Youvan
Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2010 7:01 PM
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Subject: [Amps] Black heat shields

Roger (K8RI) wrote:

/*snip*/
> I repainted the dish, but this time it was flat black. Man, did that
> dish get hot, but it never melted another LNB. You could feel the heat
> from that dish a good 10 feet behind it.  BTW that particular dish is
> visible in the "Google Earth" image so I know that image hasn't been
> updated in quite a while.

   It is standard and normal to paint satellite dish faces with
FLAT WHITE NON conductive NON metallic paint to scatter the IR
from the sun.
-- 
    Ron KA4INM - I'm proud to be Chuck's pop!

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