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Alternative Uses For an Old Satellite Dish?
ya really writes "My family has one of those BUDs (Big Ugly Dishes) sitting in their back yard still. The other day they asked me if I would take it apart for them. Aside from simply recycling it, I was wondering if there are any alternatives for its use. It was one of the last made before DirectTV and Dish took over satellite broadcasting, and even has a digital receiver. I'd say it was made around 1996."
1. Attach to tin foil hat
2. Read other people's minds.
3. ???
4. Profit!
... for condors
Strap on a chain, paint it gold and wear it around your neck Flava Flav style
Loud sex.
Yes there 'r'. :)
Either grow a massive hedge in an orb shape and stick this dish in the top section just like the DeathStar from StarWars or just do the same thing (sans hedge) with paper mache.
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Paint it black, make a giant white-gloved hand reaching out of the ground and tell the neighborhood kids you buried Mickey Mouse in your backyard...fun for the whole family.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
It's parabolic, so if you can drag it inside, make it into an elliptical reflector dish.
Ah yes, the infamous VSRSSBBOOVSD.
Ah yes, the infamous VSRSSBBOOVSD.
...of death.
Assume I was drunk when I posted this.
It's not hard.
No sig today...
As long as all your enemies are less than three feet away, it makes a damn fine death ray. Now you know where the "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer" proverb comes from.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Being a true villain, I always feel the need to strap my enemies to a bench within a metre of my death ray so this should work perfectly!
[All Your Fish Are Belong To Us]
Satellite dishes make excellent directional 802.11 antennas.
Just remove the existing LNB from the dish and replace it with a homemade antenna, like a biquad, tuned for your band-of-interest (i.e. 2.4GHz ISM for wi-fi). Make sure you get a powerful (high RX sensitivity & high TX power) wireless card with an external antenna jack
Me looking at access log and seeing wireless hack attempts... Looks at old C band dish and old microwave oven.. Hmm let's scan for the intruder and see if that laptop likes a KW of focused power in the WiFi band!
The truth shall set you free!
A solar oven...
OF DEATH!
Wok!
We actually did this in college - pointed it at the paranoid administrators who thought we had nothing better to do than listen in on their conversations.
In retrospect, it probably didn't help that we drew attention by having a flickering red light, wore headphones and pointed at them and laughed. One time, they closed the curtains (like THAT would help).
Every time we'd stick it out the window, they'd send security guards - but, we'd take it down before they arrived.