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21 sats \ 3 replies \ @KenyaCoin OP 18 Apr \ parent \ on: Starlink To Users In Africa: Service Terminated In Unauthorized Locations Apr 30 tech
I believe the criteria is that the dish must check in from the home country, not just that it isn't active somewhere else.
But if you had two and can ship one back to the homeland to check in there, that would probably work. I don't know if there's problems bringing in the dish as freight. I suppose you could remove the board and just ship that -- customs would likely not figure out what that is a component of.
Starlink is THE solution for the tens of thousands of people who have no other option to communicate online, so I suppose having at least some approach like this to keep the signal is better than having no communications whatsoever.
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Inside the dish is a circuit board, with among other components, a webserver (for configuration).
There is an external Starlink designed router that most people use with their starlink, however the router is not required (if you have a different source for the power), and would not be the device that is used to deem the location of the dish.
But opening the dish to remove the board probably is not something easily done without risking causing damage, etc. Sending the entire dish would be easier for the user, but much more expensive and prone to problems with customs at the border.
It was just an idea, not something well thought out at this point.