[AT] OT big satellite dishes

[Mike Sloane]

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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