Sentence examples for dish antenna from inspiring English sources
noun
A paraboloid shaped antenna
Like previous models, the device consists of a motorized dish antenna inside a weatherproof plastic shell.
A large dish antenna is hauled to the roof and pointed in the desired direction.
For example, he noted, even the most advanced planes and boats today use a mechanically steered dish antenna for radar.
All the dopers want is a new TV, a dish antenna, another A.T.V. to drive up to their patch".
NASA's antennas could not pick up such a weak signal, but experts thought Stanford's large dish antenna might.
Stanford was selected because its huge dish antenna -- a campus landmark -- can pick up signals in the ultrahigh frequency band.
NASA's own dish antennas cannot.
In the eighties, he hired off-duty firemen to help put up all the dish antennas.
The network operates large dish antennas at sites in California, Spain and Australia so that signals can be received regardless of Earth's rotation.
The Allen Telescope Array (mostly paid for by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft) consists of 42 dish antennas, each six metres across, scattered across the countryside.
When I visited him, he was working on avalanche-safety products and ice-climbing equipment; he was also helping a friend design giant dish antennas for the military.
