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To: Frank Byers who wrote (744)4/15/1998 4:39:00 PM
From: cAPSLOCK  Read Replies (2) of 1394
 
The technology already exists. It is what people who own the venerable BUDs (Big Ugly Dishes) use to track to different sattelites. Translating this technology to the smaller dishes would be fairly easy.

I am not sure however that this is in the best interest of the small dish users. It has it's problems. Remember setting up the dish the first time?

1. You pointed it in the general direction.
2. You moved it around and around until you found a weak signal.
3. You tightened the nuts.
4. then you nudged it, and blew lightly on it. :) Until you got a good signal.
5. Then you tightened the nuts all the way down.

This is if you were pretty lucky/good at it. If you add a machine that moves the dish back and forth you will have the problem that over time it wont lock in correctly. The machinery to automatically lock into the signal is fairly complex, and would require another box, or another reciever with that feature.

Spose that it *could* be done though.

cAPSLOCK
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