Satellite Van?

Paul Ratcliffe wrote:

On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:02:47 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

Why didn't you just go up to the bloke and ask?

The sort of people who say anything never ask intelligent questions.
It is always "what yer doin'?" or if you are packing up "when's it
gonna be on?".

I working at a hospital in the early days of SNG. A man came up to me
with a doctor's ID badge. He asked why I had two LNBs on the feed to
the dish. I explained it was for receiving two satellite bands.
He replied 'Oh 10GHz and 11GHz local oscillators?'!

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Paul Ratcliffe wrote:
On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:02:47 +0100, Bill Wright wrote:

Why didn't you just go up to the bloke and ask?

The sort of people who say anything never ask intelligent questions.
It is always "what yer doin'?" or if you are packing up "when's it gonna
be on?".

You haven't met me then. I ingratiate myself by means of my boundless
social skills then ask a great many intelligent questions. This applies to
Reception surveys
The local radio car
Council or other road surveyors
Ordnance Survey people (I was able to help one chap greatly the other
day. He was bemused that the road he was surveying didn't seem to be
there. I was able to explain that it disappeared in 1997 when a prison
was built nearby and the road grassed over).
Men with cameras who turned out to be from the council, photographing
our houses. They were tight lipped. The affair rumbles on.
A man drawing lines on our road (instructions for the tar spray and chip
guys)
The BT bloke who was pumping water out of the inspection chamber though
which all my landlines pass.
A bloke on our layby who was trying to talk to someone in Wakefield on
100mW.
A bloke on our layby who was waiting until the designated time to
release 100 pigeons.
The crew putting a 6" diameter grey plastic pipe under our road. It was
for 'cable TV' and ten years later, to my certain knowledge, contains
nothing. Maybe it's a motorway for rats. Hil scrounged some of the tube
off him and we made it into little short lamp posts for our car park.

Bill

On 21/08/2011 09:57, Alan wrote:


Anyone got any ideas why a van with a large satellite dish would be
operating in a back street of Southend-on-Sea (SE Essex) last week.
Picture (poor quality):
http://www.admac.myzen.co.uk/satvan/

When I drove past the equipment was being operated. The dish was
pointing very approximately 210 degrees, SSW(ish). Probably a complete
red herring, this is the same bearing as the Bluebell Hill transmitter.


Like, Duh... It's obviously part of a covert weather modification
programme. Probably run by the lizard people.

G

"Bigguy2010" wrote in message ...
On 21/08/2011 09:57, Alan wrote:


Anyone got any ideas why a van with a large satellite dish would be
operating in a back street of Southend-on-Sea (SE Essex) last week.
Picture (poor quality):
http://www.admac.myzen.co.uk/satvan/

When I drove past the equipment was being operated. The dish was
pointing very approximately 210 degrees, SSW(ish). Probably a complete
red herring, this is the same bearing as the Bluebell Hill transmitter.


Like, Duh... It's obviously part of a covert weather modification programme. Probably run by the lizard people.

G
If you are referring to the people of Poldhu Point Cornwall, then yes, there
have been some strange looking aerials there since Marconi rigged his
in 1901. What better place for the British HAARP?

--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%

Martin wrote:

Doesn't the dish give the game away?

Possibly the rioting classes can't add two and two.

Bill

On Monday, August 22nd, 2011 at 12:39:28h +0100, Bill Wright wrote:

Possibly the rioting classes can't add two and two.

Really?

Are arithmetic abilities no longer a requisite for graduation or
getting into university?

QUOTE

The court heard that aÂ*graduate who hoped to become a
social worker admitted she stole a TV during the rioting
in Enfield.

UNQOTE

QUOTE

At St Olave’s, she studied A-levels in French, English literature,
geography and classical civilisation. Yesterday, at Highbury,
she was accused of something slightly less civilised – looting the
Charlton Curry’s superstore of electrical goods worth £5,000.

UNQUOTE

QUOTE

Samon Adesina, 23, a student, is said to have been one of the looters
carrying a flatscreen television away from Surrey Quays shopping centre.
He was remanded in custody for a week and will miss his final exam in
electrical engineering at an unspecified university, Tower Bridge
magistrates’ court heard.
UNQUOTE

QUOTE

At Camberwell Green, an Essex University student, Banye Kenon, was
accused of looting a Curry’s.

UNQUOTE


These agents of the government look like they just stepped
out of LWT's "The Guardians" --

http://i.dailymail.co.UK/i/pix/2011/08/11/article-2024767-0D644D9D00000578-945_634x485.jpg

"J G Miller" wrote in message ...
On Monday, August 22nd, 2011 at 12:39:28h +0100, Bill Wright wrote:

Possibly the rioting classes can't add two and two.

Really?

Are arithmetic abilities no longer a requisite for graduation or
getting into university?

QUOTE

snip

It's heartening to know we are turning out a better class of burglar.

--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%

On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:32:35 +0000 (UTC), J G Miller
wrote:


These agents of the government look like they just stepped
out of LWT's "The Guardians" --

http://i.dailymail.co.UK/i/pix/2011/08/11/article-2024767-0D644D9D00000578-945_634x485.jpg

I haven't seen the programme you mentioned, but I am heartened to see
that the police we send out to defend our society are so well
equipped. Even so, too many of them have been injured while protecting
us.

On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:10:58 +0000 (UTC), J G Miller
wrote:

On Monday, August 22nd, 2011 at 19:39:17h +0100, Nemo wrote:

I haven't seen the programme you mentioned, but I am heartened to see
that the police we send out to defend our society are so well equipped.

The purpose of the police is not to defend "our society" but to protect
the government.

That is your opinion, and you are entitled to hold it.

As far as I am concerned, the police actions during the recent riots
were defending my right to live in a safe society where the violent
destruction of property and life is forbidden.

After all, in the teachings of the blessed Madame Margaret Hilda Thatcher,
(Little Blue Book, page 86, paragraph 2)

"There is no such thing as society: there are individual
men and women, and there are families”.

I do not accept her view.

On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 06:21:35 -0500, "Ashley"
wrote:

It's a satellite (SNG) van. A lot of these have no logos on them
because they can become targets in riot situations. (or even football
matches!)

The rioters don't notice the huge dish on the roof then?