This photo shows the ring of waveguide horn feeds
at the secondary focus near the vertex of a VLA antenna.
The active feed is selected by repointing the Cassegrain subreflector.
Since the subreflector subtends a small solid angle at the vertex,
the feed horns must have narrow beams and hence be many wavelengths across.
The largest horn on the right is for L band, 1 to 2 GHz (15 cm 30 cm).
Larger feeds are not practical,
so only prime-focus feeds are used at lower frequencies.
Photo by J. Condon.