Random question - what is this E* satellite dish? (Picture)

[pabeader]

cool! Good job digging that one up!

 

[Micah]

It is a receive-only dish, so technically downlink. It is used pull down traffic from all the multiple content providers for rerouting to the uplink.
It is a Torus antenna. Named as such by the mathematical shape that it is derived from. It would be doughnut shaped is the curve was continued out.
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It's very interesting to look at the Torus shape and imagine the Clark belt's shape. The antenna does an excellent job mimicking the Clark belt.
The hybrid feeds are very heavy and awkward to install / peak up.

 

[whatchel1]

It's designed

It is a receive-only dish, so technically downlink. It is used pull down traffic from all the multiple content providers for rerouting to the uplink.
It is a Torus antenna. Named as such by the mathematical shape that it is derived from. It would be doughnut shaped is the curve was continued out.
Torus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It's very interesting to look at the Torus shape and imagine the Clark belt's shape. The antenna does an excellent job mimicking the Clark belt.
The hybrid feeds are very heavy and awkward to install / peak up.

It's designed from a Torus but the exact term is Toridal sat dish. I tried the mulit-quote on this but didn't seem to work for me.

 

[whatchel1]

Confusing terms.

It is a receive-only dish, so technically downlink. It is used pull down traffic from all the multiple content providers for rerouting to the uplink.
It is a Torus antenna. Named as such by the mathematical shape that it is derived from. It would be doughnut shaped is the curve was continued out.
Torus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It's very interesting to look at the Torus shape and imagine the Clark belt's shape. The antenna does an excellent job mimicking the Clark belt.
The hybrid feeds are very heavy and awkward to install / peak up.

Sorry for reviving such an old thread, but I actually saw a picture of another uplink center with a similar dish, and I spent far too long trying to figure out the name of it. Since this thread was in the top results for multiple searches I tried, might as well tell anyone that arrives back here, or is curious. It's called a "Taurus" dish.

That's a load of Bull . No really it's designed from the "Torus" making it a Toridal receive only sat dish.

 

[dishcomm]

Hi, I know this is a really dumb question that doesn’t have to do with anything, but I was browsing some old picture archives from the Team Summit events from the dishretailer.com forms. Here is one of the pictures I am talking about

http://www.dishretailer.com/ts2001/5/MVC-012S.JPG

My question is, what exactly is that? I knows it’s a uplink satellite, and after research I found that it is from the E* Gilbert Uplink Center.

Can anyone fill me in on what exactly that large, wide, satellite dish is for? Anyone know of the “name” of it, have higher resolution pictures, etc?

Thanks!

Scott

That is what is known as a "spherical" dish... A fixed position multi LNB downlink antenna designed to receive Ka/Ku and C-band signals.

 

[whatchel1]

That is what is known as a "spherical" dish... A fixed position multi LNB downlink antenna designed to receive Ka/Ku and C-band signals.

dish antenna is often used for a parabolic antenna, it can connote a spherical antenna as well, which has a portion of spherical surface as the reflector shape.

 

[dishcomm]

dish antenna is often used for a parabolic antenna, it can connote a spherical antenna as well, which has a portion of spherical surface as the reflector shape.

yeah...parabolic is more accurate. I read the "spherical" term in a book many years ago...