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minus-squareWren@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoWhy aren’t the bees allowed to live in the satellite?
minus-squareRamenJunkie@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThey interfere with the signal to the point of killing the signal.
minus-squareRamenJunkie@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoJust to be a bit more specific, we had these Cband LNBs on the dishes, and the bees would crawl up inside and build nests. The flat end is open. https://5.imimg.com/data5/SELLER/Default/2023/4/298722996/QL/KS/WB/91298536/norsat-lnb-c-band-bro-8115-8215-8515-500x500-1000x1000.jpg https://vikingsatcom.com/products/image/cache/data/LNBs/5G LNB/3200-BPF LNB-500x500.png
minus-squareWren@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 months agoVery cool, thanks for sharing. Could someone have built a decoy LNB for the bees?
minus-squareRamenJunkie@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoYou know, that may have been a useful idea for the old ones we had replaced. Just mount them around the sat yard on poles.
Why aren’t the bees allowed to live in the satellite?
They interfere with the signal to the point of killing the signal.
Okay that’s fair.
Just to be a bit more specific, we had these Cband LNBs on the dishes, and the bees would crawl up inside and build nests. The flat end is open.
https://5.imimg.com/data5/SELLER/Default/2023/4/298722996/QL/KS/WB/91298536/norsat-lnb-c-band-bro-8115-8215-8515-500x500-1000x1000.jpg
https://vikingsatcom.com/products/image/cache/data/LNBs/5G LNB/3200-BPF LNB-500x500.png
Very cool, thanks for sharing.
Could someone have built a decoy LNB for the bees?
You know, that may have been a useful idea for the old ones we had replaced. Just mount them around the sat yard on poles.
And you get free bees.