This guy needs signal (1 Viewer)

[englaneato]

Wonder what sort of satellites he hooks up with

 

[bmac1996acc]

I don't see it. What am I missing?

 

[NLXTACY]

HAM radio antenna? I dunno, what am I supposed to be looking at?

 

[Golgo13]

Isn't that an old-school cell phone(or car-phone) antenna on the roof?

 

[half k cruiser]

To the left of that cell phone antenna there is a small cylindrical antenna. At least that's what it looks like from the .5 megapixel shot the OP took of it. We have those on battalion vehicles at my work. I have always assumed they are the UHF antenna. If that is the case then no, he is not communicating with any satellites. Amateur satellite uplink and downlink is 2 meter and 70 cm. If it is radio comm then he is probably listening in on the local 800 channels, maybe to fire dispatch or police.

 

[084runnerltd]

I want the last 10 seconds of my life back...

 

[084runnerltd]

Edit: 15 seconds now cuz I accidentally double posted

 

[retrofive]

To the left of that cell phone antenna there is a small cylindrical antenna. At least that's what it looks like from the .5 megapixel shot the OP took of it. We have those on battalion vehicles at my work. I have always assumed they are the UHF antenna. If that is the case then no, he is not communicating with any satellites. Amateur satellite uplink and downlink is 2 meter and 70 cm. If it is radio comm then he is probably listening in on the local 800 channels, maybe to fire dispatch or police.

Could be for 4g mobile data service. I have one sitting on my desk. We install them in our ambulances for data connectivity on 4g/LTE

 

[half k cruiser]

Could be for 4g mobile data service. I have one sitting on my desk. We install them in our ambulances for data connectivity on 4g/LTE

I think you might be right on that. Now that I think of it we do have 4g hotspots in those rigs. We use it to get mobile data from dispatch.