{"id":7813,"date":"2011-07-23T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/23\/the-dish\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:32:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:32:26","slug":"the-dish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/23\/the-dish\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/1796782_com_thedishvid.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/1796782_com_thedishvid.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5632509115371142370\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Our man in Dayton, Bob Crane, W8SX, sent us a really beautiful picture of my favorite antenna (not the one above). Check it out: <\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110721.html\">http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110721.html<br \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">We talk about &#8220;The Dish&#8221; from time to time on SolderSmoke. That&#8217;s the name of the movie about the role of this antenna in the reception of the TV signals for the Apollo 11 moon landing. This is &#8212; without a doubt &#8212; the best movie ever made about an antenna. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">You can get the movie at the Gadgeteer Book Store:<\/span><br \/><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20?_encoding=UTF8&#038;node=8\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20?_encoding=UTF8&#038;node=8<\/a><br \/><\/span><br \/>Check out &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our man in Dayton, Bob Crane, W8SX, sent us a really beautiful picture of my favorite antenna (not the one above). Check it out: http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110721.htmlWe talk about &#8220;The Dish&#8221; from time to time on SolderSmoke. That&#8217;s the name of the movie about the role of this antenna in the reception of the TV signals for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/23\/the-dish\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Dish&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,29,30,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antennas","category-australia","category-radio-astronomy","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7815,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7813\/revisions\/7815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}