Making A Salellite Dish

They took a bunch of pictures and even a group shot using the camera's timer. "Okay that should do it," said Kimmy. "Are you two hungry at all?" "Do you have any ice cream?" asked Ivy. "After playing tennis with Faith, I need to recharge." "Oh so how did you do against her?" asked Kimmy. "We tied, she is very good. I could barely keep up with her," said Ivy. "Ya she is amazing with a racket," said Kimmy. Sparkle smiled and knew that Ivy could of beat Faith easily. "Lets go to the kitchen and treat ourselves to ice cream. I always have some in the freezer," said Kimmy. They went downstairs to the kitchen and Kimmy grabbed the ice cream out of the freezer. "Have a seat you two, I'll fill these bowls for us,," said Kimmy. They all sat down and started enjoying the ice cream. "So Ivy how long are you staying in Granada this time?" asked Kimmy. "Well I will be going back and forth for a bit," said Ivy. Today I am with Olympia, and we did some shopping then tomorow I go back to Fae Land and test my theory once I get Tulip to create a cell phone tower if we need one, said Ivy. "What do you need a cell tower for?" asked Kimmy. "Ivy has a theory that we share the same sky and thus the same cell satalite should be up there," said Sparkle. "Well do you know how to make a cell tower?" asked Kimmy. "Tulip made a radio tower for us and it works great," said Ivy. "Okay that tower transmits only, said Kimmy. "You need that tower to recieve signals also." "Oh, I didn't know that," said Ivy. "Ya it has to recieve from the satalite dish you have in Fae Land that connects to the network satilite in space then it is connected to the tower that allows cell signals to send and recieve. It is kinda complicated," said Kimmy. Where We don't have a satilite dish in Fae Land," said Ivy. Pretty sure you need one or your theory won't work," said Kimmy. What does a satilite dish look like? " asked Ivy. "Probably check the internet," said Sparkle. "I don't have a computer at my cottage. My lap top computer won't do that for me?" asked Ivy. "Nope, you have to make an internet account and that runs off of phone lines or cable but if you have a satilite set up, all lap tops have wifi which means it will connect to the internet without cables. You don't have either of those in Fae Land," said Sparkle. "Okay after we finish our ice cream I have to fly to Olympia's place", said Ivy. "She has a computer that has internet. So Kimmy, do you have a cell phone?" "Yep sure do," said Kimmy. "Can you put your number in my phone for me then? That way I can call you from Fae Land also, "said Ivy. "Okay, not sure if that will work from a different reality but you know you can take and send pictures too," said Kimmy. "Really, that is so cool," said Ivy. "I have to figure all this stuff out." Ivy pulled her cell phone out from her top and handed it to Kimmy. "Intersting place you keep it," said Kimmy. "Well I have no pockets," said Ivy. "It is in there nice and tight." Kimmy looked at Sparkle and smiled.

 "Okay, thanks for the ice cream but I got to fly. Lots to do today before bed time," said Ivy. She put her bowl and spoon in the sink then let herself out. "Ivy is a very unusual yet remarkable girl," said Kimmy. "How does someone from a land with no technology know so much about modern devices?" "Ivy is extremely smart. I have never met anyone as smart as her," said Sparkle. "She knows how to work a computer and has a lap top now so she knows how to work it too I bet. I have a feeling she will fighure a way of getting the cell phones to work and the internet on here lap top too in time. One thing I know about Ivy is when she wants to get something done, she will let nothing stop her."... When Ivy got to Olympus's place she explained what Kimmy told her about cell towers and satilite dishes and asked her if she could use her computer. "Yep you know where it is," said Olympus. "I'll help you." They went to the computer room and Ivy sat down. "So I guess I just do a search for cell towers, said Ivy. "You can but there will be a ton of links to that search," said Olympia. "I would suggest typing in "How to make a cellular satilite dish". Then it should tell you where it needs to be hooked up to." "Okay, good idea," said Ivy.

"Okay this link says Telecon International Inc. Builder of all comunication devices," said Ivy. "Yep that is the biggest company," said Olympia. "Click on that link." Ivy clicked on it and found the front page for the company. "Wow, look at all the stuff they make," said Ivy. I never heard of a lot of these things." "Ya me neither," said Olympia. "Now look for a picture of a satilite dish." "Right there, near the top," said Ivy. "Good click on the picture and lets see what it says," said Olympia. "Okay there," said Ivy. "It looks big." "Yes they can be,now you will have to do some reading," said Olympia. Ivy went silent as she read what the web page said about Satilite dishes and cell towers. "Hey, it says that a cell tower tansmits signals to cell phones and other comunication devices like computers that have WiFi installed. The tower takes the signal from the recieving ground satilite dish that has been aimed at the satilite in space. A cable then gets connected to a the power transformer. A cable then is connected to the base of the center core of the tower. The higher the tower and the stronger the power source will determine the range of the signal. To learn about ground satellite dishes, click here." "Tulip already made a transmitting tower," said Ivy. She made one for the radio station." "Okay print that page out first," said Olympia. "Then lets see what is involved with making a dish." "I know what they look like but I bet this is gong to be a very big one." "Where's the printer?" asked Ivy. "Under the table silly. Just click on the print icon." said Olympia. "Okay done," said Ivy then she clicked the link to the more  about satellite dishes that showed the full schemnatics for assembling a few types of satilite dishes. "Okay which one will we need, there are three types," said Ivy. Never mind I will just pick the biggeset one." Olympia smiled. You may be able to talk to Mars with that one," said Olympia. "Where is Mars?" asked Ivy. "Way out in space," said Olympia. "Oh okay, I hope they speak English there," said Ivy.Olympia shook her head. "Good now print out all the pages about that dish," said Olympia. After everything was finished being printed Ivy put the papers on the desk. The satellite dish looks kinda easy," said Ivy. "Tulip will be able to make that from this drawing and instuctions I hope. If not I will get Merlin to help." Well your all set then," said Olympia. "Now what do you want to do?" "Well can you hang on to my lap top and the two shirts plus the other cell phone and all these pages?" asked Ivy. "It is almost supper now and I want to get back to Cassy and Sally's place. I'll come back later." "Yep okay," said Olympia.

"Okay thanks, I got to fly," said Ivy. "I never miss a meal. Tell Sapphire I will need her tomorrow." "Need me for what?" asked Sapphire that appeared out of nowhere as usual. "Oh, I need to go back to Fae Land tomorrow for a few hours," said Ivy. "When is the portal open?" "Two o'clock in the afternoon," said Sapphire. "Perfect, I can sleep in a bit," said Ivy. I thought Gabriel was going to be teleporting you," said Sapphire. "Ya but she is a busy angel, I don't want to bither her and you are doing nothing anyways," said Ivy. "I will get her to bring me back when I am ready." "So I am off to have supper at Cassy and Sally's place." "Let me take you there," said Sapphire. Like you said I am not doing anything." "Okay lets go," said Ivy. Sapphire took Ivy's hand and teleported them to their kitchen. "Sounds like they are downstairs playing music," said Sapphire. "Yep they do that a lot," said Ivy. "Do you want me to make supper for the three of you?" asked Sapphire. "No I smell something good cooking in the oven," said Ivy. "Ya me too. Okay see you at two," said Sapphire then vanished. Ivy sat down and waited for the two girls to finish and come upstairs. In a few minutes they showed up in the kitchen. "Ivy, your back!" said Cassy. "How long have you been here?" "Not long, Sapphire teleported me here a few minutes ago," said Ivy. "She can teleport other people also?" asked Sally. "Yep she is powerful and is taking me back to Fae Land tomorrow for a few hours," said Ivy. Ivy pulled out her cell phone. "Can you two put your phone numbers in my cell phone? I haven't figured out how to do that yet," said Ivy. "You have a cell phone now! How cool," said Cassy. "Here let me show you how easy it is to do that." Cassy added both their numbers into Ivy's cell. "So what is cooking?" asked Ivy. "Smells great." "Chicken pot pie," said Sally. "Should be done soon." "Yum, that's the only pie I have eaten that you can't put ice cream on it," said Ivy. "No but we can have that for desert," said Sally. In the mean time let me show you some things you can do and sign up to on your phone while we wait."

Sally showed Ivy some of the features on her phone like adjusting the volume and setting it to vibrate. "Why do I want it to vibrate?" asked Ivy. "Just in case you are somewhere that is quite and you don't want to disturb people," said Sally. "You have the internet on it too so that means you can do searches with it too like on a computer." "I bought a lap top computer so I will use that to do searches," said Ivy. "Okay, you really are becoming modernized then," said Sally. "Let me take the pie out of the oven and let it cool. If you have the internet then you should signup to Facebook," said Cassy. "What is that?" asked Ivy. "It is a very popular social website where you can make new friends from all over the world and even talk to them with text messages," said Sally. "Wow, I am all for making new friends," said Ivy. "Does it cost money?" "Nope it's free and easy to join," said Cassy. "Do you want me to set up a personal page for you?" "Okay but what is a personal page?" asked Ivy. "That is where you put your picture on and tell people a bit about you," said Cassy. "You can also take pictures with your phone and post them there. It is a lot of fun and I am sure you will make tons of new friends fast." "Okay set it up for me please," said Ivy. "Do it after we eat. The chicken pie is cool enough now to eat," said Sally.

After they finished eating Sally put the left over pie in the fridge and Cassy put the dishes in the sink. "Okay, give me your cell phone and let me set it up for you," said Cassy. "Come stand behind me and watch what I am doing." Ivy watched as Cassy set up her Facebook page. "Okay now I need a picture of you," said Cassy. "Just head and shoulders." "Okay do I look okay, how does my hair look?" asked Ivy. "You girl always look great," said Sally. Cassy pointed the phone at Ivy and said "Smile" then took the piciure. "There now I tap on the add profile picture icon like this then upload it. There see you look gorgeous." said Cassy. "Ya I do look good," said Ivy. "Now below your picture are some fields that you can fill in like where you live and occupation," said Cassy. "I will show you how easy it is to fill them in by putting Fae Land in the where do you live section. You don't have to fill them all in but birthday is important." Sally pulled out her cell. "Here have a look at my page," said Sally. "Wow you have lots of pictures on it," said Ivy. Well mostly of Cassy but you can put any kind of picture you take except nudes," plus some of the friends you make will put some of there pictures on your page, that is called "Sharing", said Sally. "Okay that is enough for now", said Ivy. "I have lots to do tomorrow so I am going to bed if it is okay that I sleep here tonight. I have to be at Olympia's place a bit before two o'clock." "Yep sure we need to get to bed also," said Sally. "Thanks for helping me and see you two tomorrow." Then Ivy headed off to bed. "You know, she is going to get thousands of friends fast," said Sally. "Yep I know, she will be just as popular as Taylor Swift," said Cassy. In the morning Ivy had breakfast with Sally and Cassy then they went downstairs and played some songs they just wrote for Ivy to hear. Then when it was getting close to two o'clock Ivy said goodbye then flew to Olympia's place where Sapphire was waiting for her. "Okay Ivy here is your bag with everything in it, said Olympia. "Okay all set Ivy?" asked Sapphire. "Yep sure am, lets go," said Ivy. Sapphire grabbed her hand and they vanished then reappeared in front of the palace where Alieta and Ginger were talking. "Ivy, your back already?" asked Alieta. "I thought you were going to be gone for a few days." "Well I am going back today," said Ivy. "I have to talk to Tulip and get her to help me set up a satelite dish somewhere. I think on top of the radio station will be best." What in heaven's name is a satelite dish?" asked Alieta. Hard to explain but it is needed to make everything else work," said Ivy. "So what's in the bag?" asked Ginger. "My new lap top computer, Ginger's cell phone and two shirts for Viridian plus the plans of the satelite dish. Okay, thanks for your help Sapphire I'll talk to you later," then flew off towards the fairy forest. "What is that girl up to now? asked Alieta. "You will see. When Ivy is on a mission she won't stop until she is done and working properly," said Sapphire. "Anyways I am going to visit Lulu and Sakura. Those two always make me laugh." Then she vanished. "Okay so do you know that a satelite dish is?" asked Alieta. Nope not a clue," said Ginger.

When Ivy got to the cove she found Tulip talking to Sara by the overviewer. "Tulip, can you come over here I need your help with something," said Ivy. "I wonder what is going on," said Sara. "She is supposed to be in Granada." Both Sara and Tulip flew over. "What do you need Ivy," asked Tulip. Ivy pulled out her cell phone and showed it to Tulip. "Now this device is used in Granada by just about everyone," said Ivy. "You can call someone from home and talk to them. You can call anyone you know from anywhere in Granada for free sort of". "Okay show me how it works," said Tulip. Ivy turned on the phone and an error message popped up saying, "No Signal". "Is it suppose to say, that?" asked Tulip. "Well yes but that is what I need your help with," said Ivy. "I need you to make a new device for that will make this cell phone have a signal, it is called a satellite dish. I brought instructions for you to read and see if you can do it." Ivy took the papers out of her bag and handed them to Tulip. "Hmm, the tower just needs to be four hundred feet taller, that is easy enough so the cable will have to be made longer too then reconnected." "Ya that is what I thought," said Ivy. "Now look at the next pages, this is the harder part. Tulip began to read quietly. "Okay I got it. It is very odd looking and is very big but I can make it," said Tulip. "Perfect," said Ivy. "I knew you could do it." "So where do you want me to make it?" asked Tulip. "On top of the radio station, another cable has to be run up the tower from this dish and connected to the antenna at the top si it is nice and close that way," said Ivy. "I figured if that tower in Granada covered all of Granada which is the same size and shape as Fae Land then our tower should cover all of Fae Land." "Pretty good guess Ivy," said Tulip. "Okay lets go make it, said Ivy. She took out the other cell phone then handed the bag to Sara. "Sara, can you take my bag home then meet us there. I will need your strength to aim the dish."You bet, this sounds like fun. What's that in the bag?" asked Sara. "My new lap top computer," said Ivy. "I will let you use it too when we get everything set up." "Will I get one of those cell phones too?" asked Sara. "Most definately," said Ivy. They left the cove then Ivy and Tulip went to the radio station. "Okay so this dish is like twenty feet across and will look out of place here. No more than the tower, best we keep them all together," said Ivy. "Good thinking, your getting smarter every day," said Tulip. "Now after you build it and make the tower bigger plus make a new cable we need to get Merlin to make one of those magic circles to power everything I think." "Okay let me make the tower taller first then go on the roof and make the funny looking dish," said Tulip.

Tulip made her wand appear then flew to the top of the tower and made it four hundred feet taller like the instructions said. "Wow that is way taller," thought Ivy. "Must be a good reason for that." Then she made a cable and connected it to the base of the antenna then dropped it down until it was even to the roof ot the station then extended it to lay on the roof in a coil. "Good now lets go up on the roof and get started on that satellite dish," said Tulip. They both flew up and looked for a good spot to make it. "Probably near the center," said Ivy. "Okay that is not so important but the instructions say it needs to be pointed south for Granada's satelite,: said Tulip. What does the satrlite in space look like?" A lot stranger looking than this one." said Ivy. "So do you think the roof is strong enough to hold it?". "Should be, it is made mostly of alluminum and brass," said Tulip. "Okay you know what you are doing," said Ivy. Tulip made her wand appear again and flew up making the base first then each connecting section. Next she made the twenty foot wide dish. "Wow it is huge," said Ivy. "Yep told you it was big," said Tulip. "Now just two more things to do then I am done." She made the four support beams that held the red receiving sensor straight. "There all done," said Tulip. "That is the oddest looking thing I have ever made." Now you need Merlin to make the magic circle for it and hook it up." "Okay he always comes when I call," said Ivy. "Good it is getting close to supper time so I am heading over to the palace," said Tulip. "Oh one more thing, tell Merlin the dish requires two hundred and twenty volts to make it work." "Okay, here comes Sara so say hi to everyone for me," said Ivy. Then Tulip flew away.

Sara landed beside Ivy. "Wow Tulip made that," said Sara. "It's kinda pretty in a metal kind of way." "Ya it is a bit colourful compared to the drawing," said Ivy. I guess Tulip wanted it to look nicer. First lets get back on the ground so I can call Merlin to set up the power for everything." They flew down and Ivy called for Merlin to come and help her. In a few moments Merlin appeared. "Yes Ivy, what can I do for you?" asked Merlin. "I need you to make another a magic circle to power the satellite dish on the roof that Tulip made," said Ivy. "Really, there is a satellite dish up there?" asked Merlin. He looked up. "Yep there sure is and a very big one," said Merlin. "Do you know how to make a transformer too that makes two hundred and twenty volts?" asked Ivy. "Well yes I do but what are you up to Ivy?" asked Merlin. "I want to see if my theory works and see if I can make my cell phone work in Fae Land," said Ivy. "You have one of those cell phones now! You girl never cease to amaze me," said Merlin. "Yep I have two of them but one is Gingers. I need both yoght now to test ti when everything is set up," said Ivy. "Okay I see you made the tower taller," said Merlin. Now we do not need another circle, this one has more than enough power to run this and many more things plus that transformer has several conectors that are not in use yet." "Okay so we just have to hook it all up then," said Ivy. "Here ate the instructions. Merlin looked over the instructions then saw that Tulip already made the cable from the tower to the dish. "Okay now I need to make a cable that runs from the transformer to the back of the base of the dish," said Merlin. Merlin made a long cable with connectors on each end. "One of you take this end of the cable and fly up and look for a spot to plug it in. I says the back of the base. There should be two spots, one sould say "Power In" and the other should say "Signal Out". "I'll do it" said Sara. "I want to plug in the pretty satelite dish. Then Sara grabbed one end of the cable and flew up with the cord. "The dish is pretty?" asked Merlin. Ivy smiled. "You know Sara, she thinks everything is pretty," said Ivy. Sara got to the back of the satellite and found the two sockets so she plugged it in. "Okay found it but nothing is happening," said Sara. That is fine now look for the end of the cable that is coming from the twoer and see if there is a plug on it," said Merlin. Yep there is so plug it in the other socket tight?" asked Sara. "Yes please dear," said Merlin. "Okay done but still nithing is happening," said Sara. "That is okay, now stand back dear, I have to hook it up down here," said Merlin. He plugged power cable into the transformer then Sara saw the dish move up and down a bit then went still but was humming. "Okay it moved and it is making a soft humming sound," said Sara. "Good so it has power now," said Merlin. "Lets get up there. I want to see this pretty satellite dish." Merlin popped up and Ivy met him up on the roof. "Yep very big and quite colourful for a satellite dish like I saw in Granada," said Merlin. Ivy took out her phone and turned it on. "It's saying low signal two percent. That's not strong enough to reach anywhere I bet," said Ivy. "Well the center of the dish has to be pointed at the satellite in space," said Merlin. Do you see a crank anywhere Sara. "Nope just a big hole," said Sara. That is prpbably where the crank goes. It is not on these drawings so Tulip did know to make one," said Merlin. "Okay Sara, your up. You have to push the dish up higher," said Ivy. "Okay Ivy," said Sara. "She is strong enough to move that big dish?" asked Merlin. "I hope so or we will need to get Hercules too," said Ivy. Sara grabbed the dish from the bottom pushed up. It mived about two inches. Ivy looked at her phone and now it said twelve pecent signal. "We need to go higher Sara, about two feet more I am guessing," said Ivy. "Okay boss here I go," said Sara. She squatted down and grabbed the dish flapped her wings hard then pushed up with her legs and now the dish was moving slowly. Keep going it says twenty two percent now," said Ivy. "Push harder Sara." Sara started flapping her wings much faster now and started moving the dish faster. "Almost there," said Ivy. "Ninety two percent. Stop, there that might be good enough." "Good my wings were getting tired," said Sara. She flew up a bit then gave the dish a kick and said, "Stubborn pretty satellite dish then a loud beep was heard then a loud clank. Ivy looked at her phone and now it showed 100% Signal. "You did it Sara, you just had to get mad at it like you did with Dr. Shadow!" said Ivy.

Ivy flew down beside Merlin and Sara. Now for the first test, said Ivy. She pulled out the blue cell phone and handed it to Sara then called Ginger's number. The phone started ringing. "What do I do" asked Sara. "Push the answer button and say hello," said Ivy. "Okay," said Sara. She answerd the phone and said, " Hello, who is this?" "It's Ivy silly." "Oh how are you? Are you being a good girl?" asked Sara. Merlin began to laugh. "Now both of you make me laugh," said Merlin. "Now for the final test," said Ivy. "What are you going to do now?" asked Sara. "I am going to see if I can call Olympia on Granada," said Ivy. "You think you can contact people in a different reality," said Merlin. "Hopefully, the satellite is pointed at the one in space that Granada uses," said Ivy. Ivy brought up Olympia's name and number and hit the call button. "Well it is ringing, that is a good sign," said Ivy. "Hello Ivy how are you and where are you?" Do you want to do some more shopping today?" asked Olympia. "Yep but first I have to get Sapphire to bring me back to Granada," said Ivy. "What, you are calling me from Fae Land! Ivy you did it, your anazing," said Olympia. "Now you call me and lets see if it works both ways," said Ivy. "Okay", said Olympia then they both hung up. In a moment Ivy's phone started to ring. "Hello, Olympia? "Yep it works, this is so awesome", said Olympia. "Can I talk to her?" asked Sara. "Sure," said Ivy and handed her the phone. "Hello, I am Sara, Ivy's sister. Ivy said I can have one of these cell phones too." "Well you should, sisters need to stay in touch", said Olympia. "I totally agree," said Sara. "Do you want to talk to her too Merlin?" "No that is okay," said Merlin. "I am heading over to the palace." "Okay here is Ivy back," said Sara and handed her the phone. "Hi Olympia, it is almost four o'clock  so I need to find Sapphire fast," said Ivy. "Just call Gabriel, said Olympia. "You need to rest and check to see if your lap top has internet access." "Oh ya good idea, see you in a bit", then she hung up. "I knew it would work, it all just made sense to me," said Ivy. "Now lets go to our place and see if my computer can get the internet," said Ivy. Okay, said Sara. What is the internet?" I will show you," said Ivy then they both flew off. Merlin stood there alone and just shook his head. "Young girls and their toys", he thought then popped over to the palace grounds.