Grant and I were looking at doing something like that for CS 432 (I think, Egberts networking class) from my his house down to mine. The dishes are pretty easy to come by, so I think that it would be easy to do. There is also the Pringle can antenna set up to do which is easier to get parts.
Check out the comparison of that antenna with a Pringles cantenna: http://www.trevormarshall.com/lapierre.htm It's not terribly scientific, but the results are dramatic.
It would be sweet to do some software that has auto control. You would almost have to use GPS but essentially make the antenna follow you as you move around based off of data that you send back to some embedded controller in the dish control.
This is definately one of the applications I was thinking (I may be able to get funding for this since it directly correlates with my research).
Another application I was thinking was to use the antenna like radar for finding APs -- rotate the antenna, and record the orientation for different APs. If we used this in conjunction with at least one more actuated antenna, and GPS or a compass -- if they are of similar height relative to each other -- we could try to triangulate the location of APs.
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