Does this look like an IRS Aerial/Satellite
 

On Tuesday, August 10th, 2010 at 23:06:00h +0100, Albert Ross suggested:

Doesn't work at Railtrack

A maintenance contractor for Railtrack, shirley?

Does this look like an IRS Aerial/Satellite
 

"J G Miller" wrote in message
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On Tuesday, August 10th, 2010 at 17:47:24h +0100, Nick Le Lievre wrote:

I guess I will find this out in due course

If you are walking past one of those buildings and it does come
crashing down on top of you because of failure of either the pole
or the fixing, you will indeed learn the answer to your question.

Here it is from another angle http://user.itl.net/~nlel/aerial5.JPG luckily
I have no need to ever walk anywhere near these IRS masts, so if it falls
down it won`t be my head that`s damaged.

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On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:10:07 +0000 (UTC), J G Miller
wrote:

On Tuesday, August 10th, 2010 at 23:06:00h +0100, Albert Ross suggested:

Doesn't work at Railtrack

A maintenance contractor for Railtrack, shirley?

Railtrack employed the cheapskate cowboys. Another case where paying
more would have cost less.

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On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:32:45 +0100, Ian Jackson
wrote:


One of my previous employers took on a manager from a company which had
gone out of business. His first task was to investigate a backlog of
problems of equipment faults. Without having the slightest idea what the
problems were, he tut-tutted, and said that we shouldn't be supplying
faulty equipment. He proudly declared that his previous company would
NEVER EVER have supplied anything which was faulty. I was not alone in
wondering whether this policy was one of the reasons that he now found
himself working for us!

I probably knew him :( or at least his exact duplicate. I just bet his
previous employer's kit had faults but they were denied rather than
fixed. No matter how much testing you do, customers will always find
unique problems in the Real World. Fixing them may lead to
improvements elsewhere.

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On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:40:32 +0100, Albert Ross wrote:

Railtrack employed the cheapskate cowboys. Another case where paying
more would have cost less.

But they had the next quaterly dividend cheque for their stockholders
to worry about.

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"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message
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"J G Miller" wrote in message
...
On Tuesday, August 10th, 2010 at 17:47:24h +0100, Nick Le Lievre wrote:

I guess I will find this out in due course

If you are walking past one of those buildings and it does come
crashing down on top of you because of failure of either the pole
or the fixing, you will indeed learn the answer to your question.

Here it is from another angle http://user.itl.net/~nlel/aerial5.JPG
luckily I have no need to ever walk anywhere near these IRS masts, so if
it falls down it won`t be my head that`s damaged.

and here is another one http://user.itl.net/~nlel/aerial6.jpg from another
estate I walked past today, this estate also had two of these things erected

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Nick Le Lievre wrote:

and here is another one http://user.itl.net/~nlel/aerial6.jpg from
another estate I walked past today

Even flimsier brackets.

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On Thursday, August 12th, 2010, at 19:56:39h +0100, Nick Le Lievre wrote:

and here is another one http://user.itl.net/~nlel/aerial6.jpg from
another estate I walked past today, this estate also had two of these
things erected

Is it an optical illusion, or is the useless halo VHF antenna mounted
far too close to the top of the satellite dish?

Does this look like an IRS Aerial/Satellite
 

In message , J G Miller
writes
On Thursday, August 12th, 2010, at 19:56:39h +0100, Nick Le Lievre wrote:

and here is another one http://user.itl.net/~nlel/aerial6.jpg from
another estate I walked past today, this estate also had two of these
things erected

Is it an optical illusion, or is the useless halo VHF antenna mounted
far too close to the top of the satellite dish?

Why does the halo 'enjoy' such a bad reputation? It's not the most
efficient of aerials, but they do work. They have a reasonable amount of
all-round coverage. At one time they were popular with radio amateurs
operating mobile in their cars on the 144 and 432MHz bands, before the
adoption of the wide-scale use of FM and vertical polarisation, using
off-the-shelf Japanese transceivers.
--
Ian

Does this look like an IRS Aerial/Satellite
 

In article ,
Ian Jackson wrote:
In message , J G Miller
writes
On Thursday, August 12th, 2010, at 19:56:39h +0100, Nick Le Lievre wrote:

and here is another one http://user.itl.net/~nlel/aerial6.jpg from
another estate I walked past today, this estate also had two of these
things erected

Is it an optical illusion, or is the useless halo VHF antenna mounted
far too close to the top of the satellite dish?

Why does the halo 'enjoy' such a bad reputation? It's not the most
efficient of aerials, but they do work. They have a reasonable amount of
all-round coverage. At one time they were popular with radio amateurs
operating mobile in their cars on the 144 and 432MHz bands, before the
adoption of the wide-scale use of FM and vertical polarisation, using
off-the-shelf Japanese transceivers.

Possibly because the do provide "all round coverage". Good stereo needs a
directional aerial to minimise multipath effects. It is also very
noticeable that those who erect them never seem to have read the
instructions. Invariably the null point in the reception pattern is aimed
at the local transmitter.

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