169. Satellite dishes actually point to ground-based repeater towers

"So-called “satellite” TV dishes are almost always positioned at a 45 degree angle towards the nearest ground-based repeater tower. If TV antennae were actually picking up signals from satellites 100+ miles in space, most TV dishes should be pointing more or less straight up to the sky.   The fact that “satellite” dishes are never pointing straight up and almost always positioned at a 45 degree angle proves they are picking up ground-based tower signals and not “outer-space satellites.” "


More lies that are easily exposed

A few seconds googling TV satellite dish images can show this claim to be completely bogus.  Satellite dishes can be found at all sorts of angles, including straight up.

Source: https://pixabay.com/

A satellite dish pointing straight as seen in the above image immediately disproves the ground station theory, so Dubay does what he always does and pretends that it never happens.

Also note that Dubay can’t actually give a location of any of these supposed ground stations.  This should not be too hard to do because the dishes are supposedly all pointing straight at them.

Lastly see the following links for advice on how to install a satellite dish.  Note that you need to use a tool to figure out the direction and elevation based on your location.  There are online websites and phone Apps that can do this job.

Experiment with one of these tools with locations to see how the angle varies substantially as you move further away.  If it was a ground station on a flat earth, you would expect very little variation in angle of variation unless you were right next to it.  Note: geostationary satellites orbit above the equator at a standard altitude governed by the laws of physics, so the tools only need you to specify the longitude.




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