Aiding the Satellite Dish Installation Process

DirecTV, Inc. Engineering, 2008-09

Liaison(s): David Kuether, Gustave Stroes
Advisor(s): Clive L. Dym
Students(s): Raffi Attarian (S), Daniel Bujalski (S), Jaakko Karras (F), Michael Martin (TL-S), Jonny Simkin (F), Justin White (TL-F)

For a satellite dish antenna to be properly installed, the antenna must have clear line of sight to the satellites providing it content. Additionally, the support mast that it sits on must be plumb, or the dish will point in the wrong direction. The Harvey Mudd clinic team has been charged by DirecTV to create a Line of Sight device to identify line of sight risks, and a Digital Inclinometer to aid in plumbing the support mast.