[AT] OT big satellite dishes

[Bruce Moden]

the old 7.5' dishes (k band) were popular in WNY up thru th '80's since you could get blacked out NFL games on the major network feed channels, during comercial breaks all you saw were techs running around.  Most around here were taken down & scrapped, don't know if any were used to communicate (too many hills here).  Solar collector use, not much as far as my neighbors.
bruce  

--- On Sat, 2/12/11, Charlie V <1cdevill at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Charlie V <1cdevill at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] OT big satellite dishes
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Date: Saturday, February 12, 2011, 9:50 AM



I remember two tin orange juice cans or two Haxton peas cans with a
long length of string or fish line.  That set up worked pretty well as
long as we were not so far apart that we could not hear each other
without the cans.

Charlie V.

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Mike Sloane <mikesloane at verizon.net> wrote:
> All of the BUDs (Big Ugly Dish) that I ever owned or saw were
> essentially a metal skeleton with wire mesh of some kind between the
> ribs. They were excellent radio reflectors but I don't think they would
> do much as sound collectors. The positioning is/was done by a linear
> motor arm that swings the dish through an arc that starts pretty near
> the horizon and ends up pointing pretty high. To arrange two BUDs so
> that they would be pointing at each other would require removing all of
> the critical alignment functions and moving them around until they were
> properly aligned.
>
> I guess it is certainly *possible* to do what you suggested, but the
> same thing could be accomplished just as easily by just hollering back
> and forth or using the telephone. :-)
>
> Mike
>
> On 2/12/2011 8:40 AM, charlie hill wrote:
>> I'm hoping someone can confirm something I remember reading from years past.
>>
>> If I remember right, back in the days of the big 8' and larger sat. dishes.
>> I read where farmers
>> who lived a mile or two apart but with line of sight between them would aim
>> their dishes at each other,
>> stand out in front of the dish and carry on voice conversations.  Did I
>> dream that or is it really possible?
>>
>> Charlie
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