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Now that's curious----When I used to trade in downtown Manhattan I had to walk past an
inlet on the Hudson river where several boats would dock in the summer months. A few of
them had dishes on the top of the main cabin.
Now I wondered, then, how a dish could keep it's accuracy as the boat moved. Yet these
people had the dishes.....so somehow it was feasible. After all, I don't have a
boat....but I must presume that someone who has the wherewithal to own one and
could afford to dock it in NYC would not put a dish on top that would not be functional.
--Patrick Slevin
> You can not track a satellite while a boat is at sea, even with
> reasonably sophisticated gimballing. You could sit the receiving dish
> on a dock, however. I have a friend who motors about with a KU band
> satellite dish which he sets on whatever dock the boat is moored to
> in order to watch the evening tv programming.
>
> Ocean liners and cruise ships often have satellite tracking devices,
> but they are wildly expensive and, of course, an liner rolls quite a
> bit less than a boat.
>
> You could use FM sideband (such as DBC Signal) as long as the boat is
> within range of the FM signal.
>
> JFB
> Shaven Heads Trading
> NYC
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