Hughes satellite for antenna?

kurlicat05 · EVDO Newbie Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Posts: 1

I have the USB720 from Verizon that I use for home internet. I get signals in the mid 90's and if I am lucky I might get two bars. I have one of the boosters but when I use it my signal jumps to 98 or above.

I used to have hughesnet satellite internet service and the dish is still on our roof. I was wondering about the possibility of utilizing the dish as some kind of antenna. Now keep in mind I dont know much about how this technology works, so if I am way off base here then thats fine, it was just an idea.

=)

xrayman · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:20 pm Post subject:

You could uses a biquad feed placed at the same position as the old satellite feed horn. Just Google "biquad feed" for a lot of how-to info. Did you read this thread?
http://www.evdoforums.com/thread7102.html

CraigCraig · EVDO Heavy User Joined: 15 May 2007 Posts: 141

And here is another thread regarding using a dish, look for the last one or two posts by oldbull for a picture.

http://www.evdoforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=2879&highlight=

And then there is the really creative use of a Wild Blue dish to provide shade for the chickens water dish! Laughing

http://mississippigeek.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=21