The main reason satellite dishes are allowed is that there is tax revenue to be had.
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Satellite dishes are protected by federal law but not amateur antennas?
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The FEDS have things twisted don't they? You would think they'd back up folks or set in motion something to (help) protect you guys. As far as the dish, that's very funny to me cause my lease clearly states that it's allowed cause the dish is receive only and doesn't transmit. Whoever thinks it doesn't transmit is crazy, IT'S AN ANTENNA! I had to fight for 3 weeks straight to have my antenna at my apartment and keep it up. Only thing that saved me was the owner who had drawn up the contract, left out a few things. Hoa's are more strict and seem to leave nothing out as far as antennas, or so I've heard.
If you think a home TV satellite dish transmits you better check things out. It is a receiver only system.
I told you to stay off my property and quit taking pictures of stuff.How about a "collection" of the family jewels?
The next time you catch a person taking pictures of your stuff confiscate the camera since you have top secret items exposed.
So...
Get a 33' pole, mount a direct TV dish to the top, configure the dish as nothing more than a capacitive hat, ground radial the snot out of the base, drive it through a remote auto tuner.
Done...
Get a 33' pole, mount a direct TV dish to the top, configure the dish as nothing more than a capacitive hat, ground radial the snot out of the base, drive it through a remote auto tuner.
Done...
How dish internet works. A signal is sent from the internet to a satellite above the Earth. This signal is sent to the dish at your home, which transmits the signal to the computer inside your house via a wired connection. Information downloads from the internet using a satellite via this process. To upload to the internet, the process works in reverse.
I'd really like to understand this whole dish thing. It does transmit!
I'd really like to understand this whole dish thing. It does transmit!
I'm guessing some of those radio people that don't support it is because of their wife
Any dish internet system I have ever seen other than commercial or remote industrial situations the data is DOWNLOADED via satellite RECEIVER but mouse clicks and commands are SENT VIA Terrestrial networks aka your phone lines. These commands are very small data packets and require next to nothing for speed or bandwidth. There is no satellite uplink transmitter with those systems. Same idea with satellite TV programming. If I request a pay per view movie that request goes out via telephone lines. Same as if I change my programming. Again that data request goes via telco lines.
I would contest this, at least nowadays. Personal experience - my dad uses satellite for internet, but doesn't have a working land line.
When he got satellite TV setup, there wasn't a land line for that, either. That was early 2000s.