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.

You’ll notice the dish is pointed up quite a bit more than it would have been when receiving satellite television. The mount on the back of the dish has been turned 180 degrees to allow for this.

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 ...

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As Ashok Rao, SES vice president of technology development put it Oct. 16 at the VSAT Congress here, it’s hard to build a satellite antenna cheaper than the garden-variety parabolic dish: “I ...

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.