+-geek-+ Posted January 4, 2005 Posted January 4, 2005 (edited) how is it that a sattellite dish, seemingly made from plastic, deflects electromagnetic waves....is there some special material that feels like plastic that actually has properties of a metal....i was just wonderin...THANKS!! Edited January 4, 2005 by +-geek-+ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cchalogamer Posted January 4, 2005 Posted January 4, 2005 Ummm mine's metal.....DirecTV Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-geek-+ Posted January 4, 2005 Posted January 4, 2005 i just have a little RCA one...and it seems to be made of plastic.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cchalogamer Posted January 4, 2005 Posted January 4, 2005 i just have a little RCA one...and it seems to be made of plastic.... 387567[/snapback] Well DirectTV uses RCA ao im guessin we prob have the same dish (or close) go feel of it and ull see it's actually metal Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigen Posted January 4, 2005 Posted January 4, 2005 mines metal, from DirecTV Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-geek-+ Posted January 5, 2005 Posted January 5, 2005 if thats metal....its one weeeeird feeling metal (sounding too)....maybe im wrong and it is metal.... http://www.wojack.net/Satellite/SATELLITE%20DISH%201201.JPG thats kind of what my dish looks like....is that what everybody else has thats made of metal? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
agentorange Posted January 5, 2005 Posted January 5, 2005 I don't think a plastic dish would even work very well at collecting signals. Maybe it's coated with something to make it look cool and keep it from corroding? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kobalt Posted January 5, 2005 Posted January 5, 2005 I dont think it's made of plastic, it might have plastic in it but it also must have metal. remember the giant dishes we used to have, they were made with some kind of mesh or perf, metal, so the newer ones might have some thin metal foil in it . besides the dish is only to reflects the signals the curvature of it sends them to the receiver like a big ear, the better the receiver the smaller the dish But i might be wrong Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-geek-+ Posted January 5, 2005 Posted January 5, 2005 i just thought that someone may know of somethin metalic in the paint they used or somthin...maybe it is actually metal and it just seems plastic to me... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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