Dishes on holiday

[Archived-1]

Not really on holiday, but spotted this in South Shields whilst driving past.

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Anybody want to hazard a guess on the dish size and what sat it is focused on.

Trying to account for the perspective, and comparing AZ and EL (bearing in mind the Sly dishes are Offset), I'd go for 26E. Doesn't seem to be suffciently westward to be for 7W or for Nordic beams on 1W or 4.8E.

i think youve nailed it tivu

 

[sonnetpete]

Looking at it on this view, it's at least a 1.8M prime focus.....possibly a 2.4M.....

 

[RimaNTSS]

Unfortunately dishes usually located on roofs and I am not Carlson, so walking on streets O-no . While in Athens, took some pictures of installations of SAT antennas. There are some quiet big ones. Seems that people here do not have too many restrictions for installations.

 

[Lazarus]

Or, they do have restrictions ............... but ignore them!

 

[Topper]

I have called this capture
'How the mighty are fallen'
Spotted in Rueil Malmaison Paris last week

 

[Topper]

Went on an expensive tethered balloon ride in Paris last week and spotted the Eutelsat offices and (I presume) uplink dishes View attachment 56898

 

[mikeisyou]

Outside Broadcast vehicle after Bournemouth vs Brighton

 

[RimaNTSS]

Had a family walk another day, and on kids playground discovered ...guess what.... 2 parabolas about 20m apart from each other and not for satellite receiving, just some kind of wireless telephone

 

[timo_w2s]

Had a family walk another day, and on kids playground discovered ...guess what.... 2 parabolas about 20m apart from each other and not for satellite receiving, just some kind of wireless telephone

I like doing that with satellite dishes. Sometimes when I'm installing one I'll accidentally place my ear in the sweet spot and have super hearing.

 

[RimaNTSS]

Yesterday run across nice dish-farm. Could not stop by and take picture. Found them on Google. Biggest ones seems at least 7,5m. Great dishes.

https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=50....000043&output=classic&cbll=50.475374,4.477329
https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=50....000043&output=classic&cbll=50.475374,4.477329
Happy New year everyone.

 

[Tony1A]

Had a family walk another day, and on kids playground discovered ...guess what.... 2 parabolas about 20m apart from each other and not for satellite receiving, just some kind of wireless telephone

HA! They have something like this at the visitor centre in Goonhilly, Cornwall.

 

[RimaNTSS]

Not exactly sat-dish again, but I like that picture, it comes from UK almost 100 years ago. It was in local media couple of days ago.

 

[mikeisyou]

Bournemouth vs Leicester Outside Broadcast Vehicle pointing at 16.0E

better quality pictures will be posted soon

 

[Captain Jack]

Fibo?

 

[RimaNTSS]

Could not just walk away without stop and speak to men sitting in nice 2-year old Euronews van. They had ~1,4m Gregory on the roof. I asked them where put their equipment when it gets old. They said it is all here

 

[RimaNTSS]

Masked dish. Not far from my place.

 

[Lazarus]

Sorry, I can't see it

 

[RimaNTSS]

That the point

 

[Captain Jack]

Here are some pictures from Barbados. Loads of large mesh C band dishes, all sorts of Channel Masters and DirecTV ones... DTV ones are all fibre glass, which makes sense as metal ones wouldn't stand a chance in that marine environment.

Local car dealership dish



One of many DirecTV dishes



Random dishes from around the island



A HUGE disused C band dish - bigger than the house it's next to! There's also a 3m-ish one next to it (not in photo) pointing somewhere west.



Hotel dishes



You can see the 2.4m CM one in the last picture, which seems to be used for Dish Network piped around the hotel

 

[RimaNTSS]

I doubt that some of you watching cartoons, but i am forced to do that from time to time cuz I have only one TV-set at home. "Lazy Town" is not actually so bad, they even have some sat dishes there