The rules define a “dish” antenna as being 1 meter (39.37 inches) or less in diameter (or any size dish if it’s in Alaska). Any satellite that fits the above size requirement will do nicely.

Wireless enthusiasts have been repurposing satellite dishes for a couple years now. This summer the longest link ever was established over 125 miles using old 12 foot and 10 foot satellite dishes.

Many of you will probably at some point have looked at a satellite dish antenna and idly wondered whether it would collect useful amounts of heat if you silvered it and pointed it at the sun. Perha… ...

Amazon's antenna prototype comes out to an area of roughly 730 square centimeters, versus a SpaceX's 2,100 square centimeters, making the Kuiper antenna about 34% the size of the Starlink antenna.