If you can supply photos of links of the actual dish we may be able to help further.
... I found a pic online that looks right; it's a 1m Primestar dish. I cropped out just the dish - here is the link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hk7dlqot0z78thb/1m-dish.jpg?dl=0
... I have previously been using an old round DirecTV dish with various home-made and purchased antennas to receive Inmarsat and a few other signals but obviously needed something larger to experiment further. Both Vivaldi and patch style antennas have worked well with the DirecTV dish. I'm not completely sure what I will do with this 1 meter dish, but I don't have any plans for tracking at this time. A stationary mount will be fine.
Having already gained some familiarity with Inmarsat signals, that is one option. It may very well be beyond my reach, but I would like to educate myself about what is available on the GOES-13 satellite as well. I even have a commercial FTA TV LNB to experiment with. It seems like the upcoming amateur satellites will require familiarity with more gain & higher frequencies as well, so I have a lot to learn there.
LEO telemetry cubesats and the like are my main interest, but I like the idea of having a dish to experiment with as well. Certainly appreciate everyone's input!
If satcom topics like Inmarsat & GOES-13 are not of interest on this mailing list, by all means please feel free to contact me directly if you have any pointers!
-Scott
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If you are not using it in a fixed position, but for low earth orbit tracking on s-band, like I am, I can give more advice. I am using a 1.2 metre dish. In particular the modification for larger feeds, calibration due to offset feed and real world low earth orbit tracking problems.