satelitte dish

[ncampbell]

I have an old dish in the yard that I am going to take out. Anybody got any ideas for what to do with it? A guy around here used one as a roof for his gazebo. Any suggestions?

 

[Tig]

I was toying with the idea of using a cpouple to beam a WiFi signal out on the lake and back. That way I won't have to log off early at work to get out ice fishing at a decent hour in early winter.

 

[alltoys]

Have you heard of Free To Air Satellite??

Since you have a large dish you can pick up many sats that have free tv.

Do you still have the motor to control where it points the dish?

 

[ncampbell]

no, the dish was here when we moved in and just a big ugly eyesore. It is right beside the barn in a spot I'd like to put an equipment shed. It will be coming down but it just bugs me that I can't come up with a project for that big round shape, maybe it'll just be scrap.

 

[Tig]

Perhaps it could be the base for a large fountain.
Looking for inspiration I googled Red Green, satellite dish. Among other results I found:
Episode 265 - "Life Is A Circus" Red does a giant stir fry in a satellite dish.
Episode #247 "The Drive-Thru" Red makes a futuristic hybrid gas electric car out of two golf carts and a couple of satellite dishes.

 

[PILOON]

Stand it on a base and trowell cement all over the dish mesh to create a large bird bath!
OR
Scoop a hole in ground to fit the dish and cover/trowell cement into mesh and you have an instant pond!

 

[RonMar]

Cover it with mirror film and turn it into a solar collector?

 

[radioman]

Cover it with mirror film and turn it into a solar collector?

Close - I have seen a project where someone took a black abs tubing and made a hot water collector with the dish. He looped it around till it filled the dish and piped it to his hot water tank.

 

[ToadHill]

Make a snow disk for the whole family to ride at the same time.

 

[BrentD]

You can always turn it into an amateur radio telescope and listen in on the Jupiter / IO flux tube. It's supposed to sound like whale song part of the time... Or you can tie it in to the SETI League network and help with the search for alien life.

I've also been planning on using a couple of dishes mounted face to face to make a flying saucer prop for the local haunted house that Crimestoppers has every Halloween.