Dayton FTA Pictures:

[mikelib]

Check out the price of the DTV International Dish on the box. Please don’t laugh; the vendor was in love with his dishes they were not priced to sell.

The last 3 pictures are of an antenna made for amateur radio satellite reception and transmission off of a ham radio satellite. They are 2 meter and 70 cm antennas, check out the use of the plastic compasses for azimuth and elevation.
Mike Lib

 

[VO1ONE]

I've seen this guy in years prior. Same high prices and same kind of dishes. I don't recall if it was the same person or not but a couple of years ago someone with a lot of 18"-20" dishes and DBS LNBs was telling people that they'd work for FTA reception. True, at the time you could get NASA and a half dozen other channels but he was very misleading to say the least. I spoke up and let everyone within an earshot know the truth

The ham satellite homebrew array also has a S-band (2.4 GHz/13cm) downconverter and patch antenna attached to it. I believe AO-51 was in V/S mode Dayton weekend so that's probably why they brought it, if not just for show.