[syedkarim]

Those are $20 dishes and $3 LNBs. The dishes are just stamped sheet metal. The LNBs are highly integrated; mostly passives and a really cheap RF ICs.

[walrus01]

That is a good point. I was being overly generous by far on the actual dish cost, and including the cost of cabling and a basic receiver set top box. But building a jam resistant rx only dish would still have significant economic challenges.