Can someone identify this setup?

Strino

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I work for a company that has Motorola radio comms with an antenna, and we have a dish setup I'm not familiar with....

In all honesty... Every one of our offices has one of these dishes, and there are two coax cables in the office that aren't connected to anything. Can anyone shed some light on what type of rig this is?

 

comfortably_numb

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Strino said:

I work for a company that has Motorola radio comms with an antenna, and we have a dish setup I'm not familiar with....

In all honesty... Every one of our offices has one of these dishes, and there are two coax cables in the office that aren't connected to anything. Can anyone shed some light on what type of rig this is?View attachment 138510

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Looks like a Wild Blue internet dish to me

 

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Strino

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comfortably_numb said:

Looks like a Wild Blue internet dish to me

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I hadn't thought of that -- were they ever providing services in Northern Ontario?
We have phone/cable/dsl internet services providers where I work -- that's why I didn't ever consider it being a broadband dish.

It doesn't do anything, other than collect snow and ice. Hahaha

 

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Strino said:

were they ever providing services in Northern Ontario?

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Not sure, but I removed an identical dish from my roof a couple years ago when I first moved here.

 

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Could be a Bell internet dish, they used to provide satellite downlink and telephone line up-link. An eXplornet dish would have a different feed setip for the uplink transmitter. If the building alignment is N/S it looks to point at 82W maybe which was where the Bell satellite services were. Might be an identifying sticker on the LNBF.

 

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Cham said:

Could be a Bell internet dish, they used to provide satellite downlink and telephone line up-link. An eXplornet dish would have a different feed setip for the uplink transmitter. If the building alignment is N/S it looks to point at 82W maybe which was where the Bell satellite services were. Might be an identifying sticker on the LNBF.

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Did Bell use same dish and tria that Wild Blue used?

 

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I really don't know what Wild Blue used, I suspect the same setup as eXplornet up here if it is two-way satellite internet. Think Bell used two opposing transponders hence the two cables. Bell used circular polarity as well.

 

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RAVEN transmitting dish with secondary reflector
this is a post describing some tinkering with such a dish, called "Raven", but later described as Wild Blue.
cheers, polgyver

 

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• Apr 29, 2019

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Strino said:

-- were they ever providing services in Northern Ontario?

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Yes, I have seen those Internet dishes in use in the Thunder Bay area. I don't remember what company they are.


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