Dish History

Building

Starting from Ribs

30 ribs built during 2009-2010 winter

Basement

 

About 13 cubic meters of concrete (fall 2010)

Steel support

266kg of stainless steel to make the supporting basket (spring 2011)

Tower

 

6 meters tower installed during early spring 2011

Start assembling

Start assemling the 30 ribs into a 25cm hub (late spring 2011)

Ready to be raised

 

Dish assembly is finished waiting for the crane (summer 2011), I have to thank my friend IK1QFL who helped me in assembling the dish. It would have been an ardous job to do it alone.

Installation

Going Up

 

 

Crossing fingers

Getting Higher

All most done

Dish is up (25th/Aug/2011)

Feeder Ready to be installed

Feeder Installed (8th/Sept/2011)