“hyper-directional” is relative. It’s physically impossible to create a truly collimated RF beam, physics ensures that even if you do, it’ll still spread out over distance.
Normal dishes and antenna all spill RF power in many directions. Directional just means the antenna dumps the majority of its power in one direction, but certainly not all of it.
With a sensitive radio, and some signal analysis to identify Starlinks “wire”-protocol, you should be able to detect the spilled RF signal coming off a Starlink antenna, regardless of where is pointing. Get enough radios and you can start doing some trilateration to pin-point a terminal, then aim a missile in the general direction of the terminal, and equip it with a RF tracking system that can bring it home once it’s in roughly the right area, and the Starlink signal becomes strong enough to detect with simpler equipment, and bam, you’ve got yourself a Starlink killer.
Of course working out all the details of such a system is non-trivial. But don’t think for a moment having a directional antenna is going to save you. Might buy you more time, but you’re far from invisible.
Normal dishes and antenna all spill RF power in many directions. Directional just means the antenna dumps the majority of its power in one direction, but certainly not all of it.
With a sensitive radio, and some signal analysis to identify Starlinks “wire”-protocol, you should be able to detect the spilled RF signal coming off a Starlink antenna, regardless of where is pointing. Get enough radios and you can start doing some trilateration to pin-point a terminal, then aim a missile in the general direction of the terminal, and equip it with a RF tracking system that can bring it home once it’s in roughly the right area, and the Starlink signal becomes strong enough to detect with simpler equipment, and bam, you’ve got yourself a Starlink killer.
Of course working out all the details of such a system is non-trivial. But don’t think for a moment having a directional antenna is going to save you. Might buy you more time, but you’re far from invisible.