[AT] OT big satellite dishes

[Dave Rotigel]

ROFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!
	Dave
PS, I, also, remember those long gone days!

On Feb 12, 2011, at 9:50 AM, Charlie V wrote:

> 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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