stevendom57 Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 I was just looking at the Friday pictures here on RCBlog and there is a picture of the Tidal Wave on Liberty OTS with a big golf ball looking structure next to it. What is that? Steven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiny260 Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 Satellite dish, is what I think we have been told by the nautical engineering types on this board. Pinging @twangster , @monorailmedic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jce2 Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 Yea, on any ship where ever you see a golf ball you can pretty much assume there is some form of satellite dish inside. The actual golf ball simply serves as a weather protection. You will see these things on a lot of military bases and elsewhere (there are two right behind my office) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevendom57 Posted November 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twangster Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 Yep. The extra paint to make it look like a golf ball is just cosmetic. Inside is a satellite dish on a mechanism that allows the dish to move freely and track a particular satellite as the ship moves in 3 dimensional space on the surface of the ocean. I used to have a similar 'tracking' dish on my motorhome so the kids could watch cartoons over satellite TV as we drove down the interstate. My dish cost a heck of lot less than these ship tracking antennas. monorailmedic 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLMoran Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 Just now, twangster said: The extra paint to make it look like a golf ball is just cosmetic. Interesting. I was wondering if it was painted to look like a golf ball for safety / awareness reasons, like to make sure any approaching med-evac helicopters have a clear sense of where the things are located / sized as they approach, instead of just seeing a plain white disc with no clear contours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAAAYTOOO Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 Probably either a radar or a comm terminal. The radome is just a cover to protect the equipment inside from the "elements". Been inside many a radome in my career. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coneyraven Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 See, now I would've thought it was a golf ball because that's where the mini-golf once was ..... they just never painted over the golf ball image. WAAAYTOOO and Dan G 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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