Certainly, though, more snoop-type gear is enclosed for stated reasons.
The image you sent is almost certainly a doppler radar installation for
weather surveillance close to an airport.
...EL...
Joo Faloopa wrote:
> Pardon me if the question seems overly mundane or off-topic, but are
> regular radio communications dishes usually built in enclosures?
> There are obviously very good reasons for enclosing directional
> antennas used for SIGINT (ie, keeping people from finding out what
> they're pointed at) but I don't know of any reason you'd need to do
> the same with communications dishes.
>
> I always thought communications satellites pretty much had to be
> geosynchronus; so a regular comsat dish wouldn't have to be reoriented
> very often, if at all. I suppose you might still not want people
> knowing where they are, but I would imagine anyone capable of
> threatening a satellite would be more than able to locate them without
> taking a bearing from a dish.
>
> Are there maintenance reasons to enclose a dish? ie, protection from
> the elements, etc? With a mechanized, re-orientable dish this would
> also seem to be a bigger issue (moving parts). Though I suppose all
> dishes have to be at least somewhat re-orientable to maintain
> functionality.
>
> Please pardon if I'm grossly breaching protocol with this question ;)
> I've attached a picture of an antenna nearer to me than I thought any
> SIGINT went on. I figure it's just a normal communications antenna,
> but thought I'd see if anyone thought different.
>
> thanks
>
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