Review of a Moving Satellite Dish, Compared to a Stationary Dish

We used to have an old satellite dish here in Fernandina. It is still in the corner of the yard, broken and unusable. It was struck by lightning, and that ended its usage.

To change the channel on the dish, the dish would have to rotate and point in another place in the sky. It would take it a few minutes to do this task.

Sometimes while it was changing channels we would want to go to another channel. But we had to wait until the dish had located the latter channel. Then it was back to finding another part of the sky to point at.

Another problem with this design, was the dish getting misaligned. It could be a satellite it was looking for was knocked out by a fling rock. Our the satellite the dish was looking for had been moved. The only way to fix this problem was to call up the service professional. He costed money, and time to fix these problems.

Today we have a dishe that points into one place in the sky, and does not need to move. It is cheaper and smaller than the latter dish. It also can be moved if we wanted to. The latter dish would have to be dug up, and planted in another position.

It only takes the time to change channels as it would on cable. You did not have to wait three or more minutes to see the channel, just to end up changing to another one.

It does not take a service man very long to set this dish up. The other dish took hours to be programmed. And sometimes the company that sold it to you had to call it up on the phone, so they could do some more programing to fix things.

The only thing about the old dish that I miss, was being able to see an episode on television a week before it came out. I remember telling my friend at school what happened in the latest episode of "Star Trek: Voyager". She still had a week to see the episode, and I had already seen the one she was talking about.

This new dish is faster than the old design. So to go for speed, the new dish is the satellite of choice.

The old dish is more interesting, and does strange things that the new one does not. But it is slower to browse through the channels, and can be more complicated depending on the satellites of choice.