What can I do with a satelite dish?

[TiMacLover]

Mom shut our Dish TV off and now we have cable and they don't want the Dish back so its mine, what can I do with it? Anything like I can use It?

[britboy]

you could stick in the garden, fill it with water, and leave it as a bird bath.

You could use it as a frisbee (http://www.barovelli.com/tv/frisbee.wmv)

Or, you could turn it into a star ship (http://www.barovelli.com/tv/ship.wmv)

There are endless uses for stuff like that.... :D :D

[mac15]

use it a bobsled
or a wok

[whfsdude]

Space Probe?

[matznentosh]

Use it as a sound collector to snoop on your neighbor's conversations. Any parabola will work.

[BarneyR]

TiMac Lover-

The dish can be used to extend the range of Airport wireless reception up to several miles! Go here for more info:

Practically Networked's page on Wireless Networking Reference - Antennas / Range Boosting (http://www.practicallynetworked.com/tools/wireless_articles_range.htm)

If you're at all handy with tools and curious, you (or a buddy) will soon be experimenting with extending the range of wireless transmissions. I assume from your handle that you have a Titanium Powerbook. If you have an Airport card installed in a TiBook, you know the range sucks and might be curious about what can be done about it. A PCMIA Orinoco card, possibly with a range extender is a practical way to boost your reception. But, heck, that dish can, under the right circumstances and with a little work, extend your range accross town! Though a Pringles can might be more portable!

If you're not interested yet, hold on to it. One of your buddies will be interested.

[iGav]

Use it to go pan for Gold!! :p

[TiMacLover]

I don't have a Tibook, yet but I am interested in that boosting thing, anyone else have any other idea's?

[mcrain]

Dishnetwork or DirecTv?

I'm sure if you do some research on the net you can find some interesting uses for it.

;)

[AlphaTech]

Use it as a salad bowl, or as a large dish for chips and dip. Use it as a large hat, for when it is really raining out there. You could also use it as the top section of a droid, if you are building one.

Otherwise, put an ad up and see if anyone wants to purchase it from you.

[mymemory]

When I was young I saw 3-2-1- Contact! and they took one of those things, put aluminum around it and in the middle they placed a chicken and it cook it!

The problem is that you can not do barbicue at night with it.

Or, you can dig a hole in your back yard, place the unit there, cover it up, and forget about it.

[mischief]

If you're willing to run Linux you can get a driver for the USB satellite-modem drivers used by DirectPC. So is a Router :D The router works for any OS.:eek:

http://www.helius.com/products/hsrdpc.html

[Macmaniac]

Cover it with something shiny, then reflect the sun on to a PC and melt it! It is your new PC destorying weapon! Or just watch some Cable TV ads they have lots of ideas!

[Mr. Anderson]

This might be a little more practical than the earlier post, but you could sell it and keep the money. I'm sure someone might need a new one to replace one that got damaged?

I love those clips britboy, nice!