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Fun To Be Had With a 10-Foot Satellite Dish?
An anonymous reader writes "I'm moving to a rural community in the central United States. On the property is a satellite dish in excess of 3 meters in diameter that seems to still be in excellent condition. I already enjoy shortwave radio and was wondering what interesting TV feeds I might be able to catch with the dish. What kind of equipment would I need and how much should I expect to spend? If it's not useful for that purpose, what other fun projects might I use it for?"
UVB-76 has been broadcasting new stuff the past few days...
You might even get airborne, in which case you have a real flying saucer. At the very least, it would scare the crap out of the snow-boarders.
Then, when you locate your enemies' networks, get a magnetron and build yourself a long range HERF gun.
Then change it one day and watch the internet implode.
and some giant fritos...
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Is this the MPAA? Is this the RIAA? Is this the DMCA? I thought it was the USA!
Maybe a TV broadcast from Omicron Persei 8?
Point the dish at your nearest neighbors house to make them paranoid.
I don't get it. How would a 10' dish help him achieve first posts? And why bother?
Just don't say anything rude in case you miss the moon. That could come back to haunt you in a few hundred years.
So may I suggest using the dish for a bit of covert surveillance of neighbours.
I don't think having a 3M dish pointed directly at your neighbours could be classified as "covert"
Trolling is a art,
I love the meta joke of this message being modded as "interesting".
The Invisible Hand of the Free Market is what punches workers in the nuts.
Paint a giant bloodshot eyeball on it and point it at a paranoid neighbor.
You are hereby served notice regarding your improper use of the UGI patented "3 Step Process". The UGI (Underpants Gnomes International) have established that all "3 Step Processes" must take the form of
If you continue to use your errant "3 Step Process" legal action may follow.
IAAUGL
The Underpants Gnomes International do wish to make a constructive suggestion. The use of A B C instead of 1 2 3 would not be in violation of the UGI's patent.
Screw you guys. I'm going home.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
I have a whole planet with vast resources and a global interweb full of most of human knowledge. Is there anything I can do with it?
Up here in Michigan we throw rocks or poke at cornered wolverines.
No, the animal.. not the panzy college students... they just whine in the alleyway when you do that to them... No fun at all.
GO SPARTIANS!
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
then paint...
" I'M NOT LISTENING TO YOU!"
on the dish.
That will throw them off.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
GO SPARTIANS!
Your alma mater must be so proud. :-P
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
Be sure to bury it a few feet into the ground in an empty field, scatter the dirt around it, and light off an M-80 (or functionally equivalent firework) in the area and hope someone calls in the authorities. Keep that video camera handy (for the spectators, not the authorities, since that would be illegal to record them)!
Use it for assertiveness. Carry it around and when some idiot starts nagging you, throw it onto him/her, cause a mini-eclipse and speak the utterly cool words "Talk to the dish 'cause the universe ain't listenin'." Wiggle your head and impress your buddies.
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
...which means you could get creative by playing various pre-recorded sounds in front of it while pointing it at the horizon... if you're pointing it at water (especially an inland lake), just loop the suspense music from Jaws....