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>In any case, since you're already being sold $2000 worth of equipment for the absurdly low price of $500, I'm not quite sure that a complaint about some adapte
by MangoCoffee 5y ago
>In any case, since you're already being sold $2000 worth of equipment for the absurdly low price of $500, I'm not quite sure that a complaint about some adapter is in order.
kinda agree. i remember watch or read a tear down on the original Starlink dish. it wasn't cheap to make but maybe Starlink should charge more for its dish instead?
- Tempest1981 5y agoA few pictures here: (old version) https://hackaday.com/2020/11/25/literally-tearing-apart-a-spacex-starlink-antenna/ https://hackaday.com/2020/11/25/literally-tearing-apart-a-sp... Inside is a giant 21-inch round-ish circuit board, with 600+ mini antennas on one side, and 600+ driver chips on the other. These 632 antennas let them do phased-array beam steering, since the satellites are moving (not geo-stationary) Teardown: https://youtu.be/iOmdQnIlnRo https://youtu.be/iOmdQnIlnRo
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- olyjohn 5y agoA $2000 dish is still about $15-20k cheaper than getting Comcast to run 300 feet of coax.