Another one for Bill's Rogues Gallery

On Feb 4, 1:56*pm, Terry Casey wrote:
Every time I've been near this for ages I've been meaning to take the
camera next time and then, of course, forgetting!

Eventually, today, I remembered, so here goes:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/k-type/...l_Dyslexia.htm

I hope nobody takes objection to my finalé ...

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Terry

It's more DIY than Rogues, I think!

Bill

Peter Duncanson wrote:
On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:56:28 +0000, Terry Casey
wrote:

Every time I've been near this for ages I've been meaning to take the
camera next time and then, of course, forgetting!

Eventually, today, I remembered, so here goes:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/k-type/...l_Dyslexia.htm

I hope nobody takes objection to my finalé ...

If that aerial is doing anything useful it might be because the
reflector is back to front. It looks as though it would reflect a signal
coming from the side through 90 degrees on to the dipole.


Ah, but it's well sheltered by the apex of the roof ...

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Terry

On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:13:26 -0800, suggested:

I think it might be an early Vision product from Satellite Solutions,
who have a branch just across the river from Ilford.

Yes you certainly know your TV antennas.

The forward projecting parasitic elements are definitely in the style of
the Vision UHF antenna, although it looks like they have changed the
design of the reflector.

http://www.tvaerials.COM/product.aspx?productid=1887

Better photograph, but less elements model at

http://www.beststuff.co.UK/vision_v10-481.htm

Or could it be that on the antenna on the Ilford Hinu Centre , the
installer somehow did not have the reflector (lost or damaged) and so
used the reflectors from a cannibalized antenna and that explains why
they have been fitted backwards?

tony sayer wrote:
In article , Terry Casey
scribeth thus
Every time I've been near this for ages I've been meaning to take the
camera next time and then, of course, forgetting!

Eventually, today, I remembered, so here goes:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/k-type/...l_Dyslexia.htm

I hope nobody takes objection to my finalé ...


Yes rather not that good. Is it that far off beam assuming the Sky dish
is correct?..

It may not be easy to see but your looking at the dish from behind. The
road is not quite north/south but slewed a bit anti clockwise. Crystal
Palace is ~30° west of south but the aerial is not pointing directly
across the road but a bit to the right so, without going back with a
protractor, I'd say it's at least 70° off target.

Ivan wrote:


"Terry Casey" wrote in message
news
Every time I've been near this for ages I've been meaning to take the
camera next time and then, of course, forgetting!

Eventually, today, I remembered, so here goes:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/k-type/...l_Dyslexia.htm

I hope nobody takes objection to my finalé ...



Hope you weren't caught on the security camera photographing that
particular building..

Well, the place was open at the time and nobody came out to ask ...

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Terry

In article ,
Terry Casey wrote:
Every time I've been near this for ages I've been meaning to take the
camera next time and then, of course, forgetting!

Eventually, today, I remembered, so here goes:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/k-type/...l_Dyslexia.htm

I hope nobody takes objection to my finalé ...

Sure it's not pointing at some 'fill in' transmitter because the 'main'
one isn't too good due to local conditions? You see lots of that in
Kingston which is nominally covered by CP.

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*Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire *

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Java Jive wrote:
Brings back memories of the Colditz series. Are things really that
bad round there that they have to cover the building from top to
bottom with barbed wire and protect the windows with caging.
Is it designed to keep people out, or in?


Well, there's a fairly troublesome area to the south but I haven't
noticed any other buildings protected like this - on the other hand,
I've never really looked!

It isn't barbed wire, by the way - there are grilles over the windows
but you may be getting confused by strings of miniature lights hanging
down the building. I've never had cause to go near it after dark but the
Sikh temples in the area are festooned with the things!

I can't help suspecting that almost every building regulation
concerning fire and public safety must be contravened there. What
happens if there's a fire on the ground floor trapping many upstairs.
How are the Fire Brigade supposed to evacuate people through the
windows?


I've had a good look at the original picture in detail and I can't see
anything that a fireman's trusty axe shouldn't be able to deal with very
easily.


On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:56:28 +0000, Terry Casey
wrote:
I hope nobody takes objection to my finalé ...

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Terry

"Terry Casey" wrote in message
news
Every time I've been near this for ages I've been meaning to take the
camera next time and then, of course, forgetting!

Eventually, today, I remembered, so here goes:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/k-type/...l_Dyslexia.htm

I hope nobody takes objection to my finalé ...

is it pointing toward Mecca (not the bingo establishment)

On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:47:58 +0000, reg wrote:

is it pointing toward Mecca (not the bingo establishment)

Not at all probably, since it is a *Hindu* Centre.

In article ,
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Terry Casey wrote:
Every time I've been near this for ages I've been meaning to take the
camera next time and then, of course, forgetting!

Eventually, today, I remembered, so here goes:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/k-type/...l_Dyslexia.htm

I hope nobody takes objection to my finalé ...

Sure it's not pointing at some 'fill in' transmitter because the 'main'
one isn't too good due to local conditions? You see lots of that in
Kingston which is nominally covered by CP.

I thought of that, but there aren't many which get in to Ilford - not that
Guildford, Hemel or High Wycombe really "get into" Kingston, but at least
they're ghost-free.

of course, another alternative is that it is actually a transmitting aerial
sending a signal from, perhaps, a satellite service to somewhere nearby.
Came across this situation in Shepherds Bush some years ago.

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