Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for June 02, 2024

The DSN dishes were located at Moffatt Field, CA. Used to see them from Hwy 101, but now they’re gone.

You know what they say: The bigger your antenna, the better your reception. Or something like that.

If you want to see a funny movie about the antenna in Australia, watch The Dish (2000)

I was just in Spain, but I didn’t see the complex. I think the question would have been, ‘¿No me puede escuchar nadie?’ (Can nobody not hear me?) The double negative is alive and well.

First, it was “the deep web” then it was “the deep state”, now this! My God people, when will this conspiracy end!

The Voyager 2 spacecraft communicates only with the Australian station, since it is headed to the outer part of the solar system in a direction that is in the part of the sky that cannot be seen from the northern hemisphere.

I’m surprised to see a Mercator Projection being used here:

Probably the easiest distortion to see is with Greenland: Greenland appears to be relatively huge here. In reality South America is 8 times larger than Greenland.

Just getting an order for a pizza delivery would not be so fast. A radio signal from one billion miles away would take about 1.5 hours to reach earth.

If your phone were 230 feet wide you’d be able to pick up a signal anywhere. Carrying it, however, might prove inconvenient.

“I am getting an order for pizza delivery”… no anchovies, please.

I’m watching the Netflix series “The Signal” which tells me that there’s a one hour gap in the coverage over the Pacific. Hmmm, should I beleive the comic or the TV show. Oh, if only there was some reliable source of information out there!

Dr. Mel has a point. I can see (direct line of sight) a certain carrier’s tower from my front door 10 miles away and still used to drop calls when I was on their service.

Billions of miles? That’s not very far in space. One light year is almost 6 trillion miles, and won’t even get you to Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighbor.

They can track signals weaker than your refrigerator light’s power out to Pluto.

The Australian base (or an early version of it) was shown in the movie “The Right Stuff”.

There’s a really great movie about this named The Dish – checkitout!!

Just get a “smart” clothes washer with WiFi and run a cable from your router to its Ethernet port; maybe it’ll act as a WAP.

Look up “Faraday cage”.