"Have you never seen a news van with one of those big antennas?"

If he had a bigger antenna, maybe, but as it is, his system isn't powerful enough to receive from this distance without a boost.

"That's a whole lot more complex than having a bird up in geosynch where you can have one big antenna keeping track," he said.

Near the airfield is a very big old antenna built for the Russian space programme in 1950s.

If nothing is found in the seven-year search, the researchers hope to build more sensitive equipment and bigger antennas.

The males use their much bigger antennae to track down the females.

A radio telescope is simply a big antenna with a receiver attached.

But he was startled himself when the big antenna started to move.

He'll connect it to the big antenna on the roof.

It was a quality color set, and that big antenna could bring in just about any station in Florida.