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The paraboloid dish consists of segments that can be separated and rotated in order to stack them. The device shown here is capable of aligning a parabolic antenna by turning around two perpendicular axes.

Contributed by: Sándor Kabai

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Sándor Kabai

"Deploying and Steering a Parabolic Antenna"
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/DeployingAndSteeringAParabolicAntenna/
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Published: December 20, 2007

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