Hi All,

Great idea, if it works, perhaps our neighbourhoods /towns, will benefit from the removal of the black ugly dishes, we now have ? now if only some one can design an aerial that cant be seen !, perhaps all our streets will stop looking like coronation st ?????

Yea great idea, but a small problem here, and that is said design, whilst it may be fun to think up an idea it is another to design it. A couple of thoughts:

A Fresnel lens on the window to focus microwaves onto a small aerial in the room.

A see though dish made from fine spluttered metal that is almost a mirror.

A communal dish on the roof and out of site, probably the most practical, but that requires agreement. difficult one that, but certainly the most practicable.

Not watching satellite at all, stick to Hi-Fi, no dish, no problem.

But really that flat panel aerial does look good, and better than most.

John...

Hi, John,

Was thinking of how many years we have had aerials and sat dishes, is it not time we integrated these somehow into house design to make them less conspicuous, maybe food for thought and project to pursue ?.

Hi Carl, note I have put up a post on 'perceptions'. Now from my understanding of flat panel aerial designs, they should in theory be electronically 'steer-able' and therefore could be built in, or at least flat to any south facing wall, whether anyone's working on this I don't know, but sounds an interesting idea.

Like you I find a building littered with black dishes undesirable, hopefully new developers will install a communal dish out of sight and route the signal to all flats. Maybe it could become part of 'building regs.' in the future. Probably not well known this, but one dish can receive every channel out there and all at the same time, so why every individual installs their own is beyond me!

John...

PS the same goes for the humble TV aerial.