Actually Sighting a satellite dish isn't that hard when you've got the right equipment. I use a satellite dish to recieve Astra's signal (yes i live in Europe). Because I'm living on a sailing yacht i have to set up the equipment every time i'm in the harbor. For the sighting i use a 'beeper' with an earplug. When one knows the approx. angle and elevation of the target, one can hear a low beep from the beeper. The higher and louder the beep, the better the signal. Works every time.
The catch is: The beeper doesn't know squat about WHAT signal it recieves, Astra is very close to Eutelsat (well, from my point of view that is, I wouldn't hold my breath trying to cross space floating between the two birds) so when a few signals are next to eachother, you'd definitely need some other means to figure out what you're listening to:)
Prolly, when one sticks up a dish large enough, it'll be possible to listen in to the signals of telco's or ISP's..
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No ISO's...
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Since a long time actually, but one can download de FTP store when available..
It'll take a few Gb, but the boot.iso et al are available then. Just create a local ftp/http/nfs/whatever server and install from that!
Personally i'd buy the distro, but one can be cheap and spare a few coins by souping up the bandwidth du-jour
Actually Sighting a satellite dish isn't that hard when you've got the right equipment. I use a satellite dish to recieve Astra's signal (yes i live in Europe). Because I'm living on a sailing yacht i have to set up the equipment every time i'm in the harbor.
:)
For the sighting i use a 'beeper' with an earplug. When one knows the approx. angle and elevation of the target, one can hear a low beep from the beeper. The higher and louder the beep, the better the signal.
Works every time.
The catch is: The beeper doesn't know squat about WHAT signal it recieves, Astra is very close to Eutelsat (well, from my point of view that is, I wouldn't hold my breath trying to cross space floating between the two birds) so when a few signals are next to eachother, you'd definitely need some other means to figure out what you're listening to
Prolly, when one sticks up a dish large enough, it'll be possible to listen in to the signals of telco's or ISP's..