Unusual place for a Yagi

In message , Mike Tomlinson
writes
En el artículo , ureds
escribió:

https://goo.gl/maps/9YyII maybe the property over the road is using it?

A property where planning law prohibits roof-mounted aerials?

In remote places, the signal sometimes 'is where it is' - and 'where it
is' is where you have to place the aerial.
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Ian

"ureds" wrote in message
news
Spotted on a recent trip to Glencoe, pointed at Ballachulish which is
about
a mile to the north.

https://goo.gl/maps/9YyII maybe the property over the road is using it?


On the subject of noticing something unusual whilst driving, I was driving
along, minding my own business, when this caught my eye:
https://goo.gl/maps/f8YUW


I wasnt even looking for it!

On further inspection it was not locked, so I took the opportunity.

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"ureds" wrote in message
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Spotted on a recent trip to Glencoe, pointed at Ballachulish which is
about
a mile to the north.

https://goo.gl/maps/9YyII maybe the property over the road is using it?


On the subject of noticing something unusual whilst driving, I was driving
along, minding my own business, when this caught my eye:
https://goo.gl/maps/f8YUW


I wasnt even looking for it!

On further inspection it was not locked, so I took the opportunity.


http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/ind...PostLochcarron

"Jim GM4DHJ ..." wrote in message
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"_Unknown_Freelancer_" /dev/null wrote in message
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"ureds" wrote in message
news
Spotted on a recent trip to Glencoe, pointed at Ballachulish which is
about
a mile to the north.

https://goo.gl/maps/9YyII maybe the property over the road is using it?


On the subject of noticing something unusual whilst driving, I was
driving along, minding my own business, when this caught my eye:
https://goo.gl/maps/f8YUW


I wasnt even looking for it!

On further inspection it was not locked, so I took the opportunity.


http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/ind...PostLochcarron

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/roc/db/989477564.html

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/lochcar...6-03-08.t29017

En el artículo , Jim GM4DHJ ...
escribió:

http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/ind...PostLochcarron

God, that's depressing. I think I'd sooner go up topside and watch the
bombs land than stay in that hole. A similar place is the "Secret
Nuclear Bunker" in Hack Green:

http://www.hackgreen.co.uk/

These facilities were in use up to he 1990s, all the more remarkable
when you look at how primitive they are. The phone exchange in Hack
Green is electromechanical so it wouldn't be affected by a nuclear EMP,
and the signs in the operations room showing the war state (DEFCON in
US, I forget what we call it here) are signs illuminated by incandescent
bulbs.

They have a couple of nuclear bombs (minus warhead, of course) and what
struck me is how small they are compared to what you see in the movies
(cf. Dr Strangelove).

Well worth a look if you're in the area.

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(='.'=) Bunny says: Windows 10? Nein danke!
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The sad bit is that they have (had) one of these local bunkers 50ft
down under John Smith's brewery in Tadcaster.

Do the Russians like beer?


--
Woody

harrogate3 at ntlworld dot com

En el artículo , Woody
escribió:

The sad bit is that they have (had) one of these local bunkers 50ft
down under John Smith's brewery in Tadcaster.

Do the Russians like beer?

/me has visions of drilling a hole in the ceiling under one of the tanks
and installing a tap. Then you wouldn't care about the bombs.

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On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 18:44:35 +0100, Mike Tomlinson
wrote:

En el artículo , Woody
escribió:

Do the Russians like beer?

No, they like vodka! Something of a cold-war classic this ...

"Frankfurt (AP) - Four Soviet soldiers lost while on manoeuvres in
Czechoslovakia sold their tank to a pub owner for two cases of vodka,
then were found sleeping it off in a forest two days later.

The tank was nowhere to be found. Authorities later learned that the
publican had broken up the tank and sold the pieces to a
metal-recycling centre, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported at
the weekend. The article was by Mr Ota Filip, a Czechoslovan emigré
author.

Yesterday he said the episode occurred during Warsaw Pact exercises in
Czechoslovakia last year. He only learned of the incident in a letter
from reliable sources bought to him by "friends" three weeks ago. Mr
Filip's article quoted a report by police in eastern Bohemia.

The tank crew got lost as darkness was falling. It was cold, rainy,
and foggy and they were running out of vodka, since rations had been
cut as part of a Soviet campaign against alcoholism.

Around 9pm the tank drove a into a village where the only pub was
still open. The crew parked in a shed behind the building and went
into the pub as it was about to close

The soldiers had money for one bottle of vodka, but got three more
after the tank commander plunked down his gold wedding-ring.

At 11.15, the crew was spotted leaving the pub with two cases of vodka
and more than 61b of herring and pickles.

The men were found slumbering in a forest two days later. They told
local authorities and the Soviet military police they did not know
what had happened to the tank. The first clue turned up 10 days
later, when the head of a metal-recycling plant said he had just
bought a large amount of high-quality, sawn-up steel from a pub owner.

Investigators soon found the shell of the tank in the shed behind the
pub. The proprietor told the authorities he had acquired the tank for
24 bottles of vodka, with herring and pickles thrown in "as a gesture
of comradeship".

Mr Filip said the fate of the pub owner and the Soviet soldiers was
not known.

In the 1960s, Mr Filip wrote several novels that angered the
Czechoslovak authorities. In 1970 he was jailed, then freed after 15
months and later allowed to emigrate."

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In article , tony sayer
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Aww sweet Pity the railway is no more anyway..

Beechinged, I fear. Close in 1966.


That might be about the only position where any signal can be had just
there. Or it Might be a sort of self help system they do exist in
areas like that where a receive aerial gets the main signal and sends
it down a long co-ax to an amplifier to other aerials that re transmit
the original signals...

My memory tells me that I visited the house and found that the only
available signal was on the far side of the road from the house. This
was before the era of satellites.


Blimey!, just how any places like that have you been to over time
Charles?....


plenty

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Ian Jackson wrote:
In message , Mike Tomlinson
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En el artículo , ureds
escribió:

https://goo.gl/maps/9YyII maybe the property over the road is using it?

A property where planning law prohibits roof-mounted aerials?

In remote places, the signal sometimes 'is where it is' - and 'where it
is' is where you have to place the aerial.

indeed, so.

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