Flush mounting

In message , Mark Carver
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Ian Jackson wrote:
In the major areas of population, the mains sewerage system is
connected to nearly every home.
In 1983, when large-scale cable TV really started to take off in the
UK, to avoid having to dig up the streets, there was a very serious
proposal to use the sewer system for getting the signals to the home.
There was at least one cartoon showing the incoming drop cable
emerging from the U-bend of a toilet.
I don't think that the idea died the death, and often wonder how
much the sewers ARE used as ducts for various telecommunications cables.

http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/broa...roject-goes-li
ve-in-bournemouth

Interesting. I wonder why they changed their name from H2O to i3? Maybe
because all cutting-edge products need to have a lower-case 'i' in their
title?
Or maybe because too many people couldn't distinguish the O from and 0
(a problem I have with my email address).
--
Ian

Ian Jackson wrote:

http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/broa...roject-goes-li
ve-in-bournemouth

Interesting. I wonder why they changed their name from H2O to i3? Maybe
because all cutting-edge products need to have a lower-case 'i' in their
title?

Or maybe because too many people couldn't distinguish the O from and 0

Perhaps, though O2 seem to manage OK !


--
Mark
Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply.

www.paras.org.uk

On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:08:04 +0000, Mark Carver
wrote:

Ian Jackson wrote:

In the major areas of population, the mains sewerage system is connected
to nearly every home.

I, there was a very serious proposal
to use the sewer system for getting the signals to the home.

I don't think that the idea died the death, and often wonder how much
the sewers ARE used as ducts for various telecommunications cables.

http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/broa...in-bournemouth

That appeared on one of the News programmes for the area this week.
Showed a cable in a fairly small drain,not a large Victorian Sewer you
could stand up in.
First thing that strikes me is that any obstruction in a drain is
contrary to common sense as it does not take long for debris to catch
on anything and in turn trap more debris until there is quickly a
blockage.
So what happens to the cable when the MR Drain cleaning man has to use
very high pressure jets or mechanical powered drain snakes to clear
it.

G.Harman

Woody wrote:
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On Feb 26, 11:09 pm, widgitt wrote:
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Another one for Bill

I went to a communal system a few months ago (bloody miles away
it
was) and when I finally winkled the bone idle caretaker out of
his
hovel and got the roof keys off him I found that the aerial was
mounted on a waste pipe like that. This particular pipe however
could
rotate freely in its mounts, so the aerial was on a sort ot wind
powered rotator. Very sound, environmentally, I thought. The
situation
was complexified by the fact that were were two vertically
polarised
relays in the valley, in opposite directions, and half the
tenants
were tuned to one and half to the other. I picked the best and
fixed
the aerial, and for weeks we had wails of disappointment from
those
tuned to the other tx.

Bill



Complexified?

Wossat?


I thought it was a word he nicked from G W Bush.

--
Adrian

In message ,
writes
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:08:04 +0000, Mark Carver
wrote:

Ian Jackson wrote:

In the major areas of population, the mains sewerage system is connected
to nearly every home.

I, there was a very serious proposal
to use the sewer system for getting the signals to the home.

I don't think that the idea died the death, and often wonder how much
the sewers ARE used as ducts for various telecommunications cables.

http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/broa...project-goes-l
ive-in-bournemouth

That appeared on one of the News programmes for the area this week.
Showed a cable in a fairly small drain,not a large Victorian Sewer you
could stand up in.
First thing that strikes me is that any obstruction in a drain is
contrary to common sense as it does not take long for debris to catch
on anything and in turn trap more debris until there is quickly a
blockage.
So what happens to the cable when the MR Drain cleaning man has to use
very high pressure jets or mechanical powered drain snakes to clear
it.

If I remember correctly, part of the 1983 plan was to blast the walls of
the sewer clean with high-pressure water, and superglue the cables to
the top of the pipes. Under normal conditions, it would be clear of the
effluent.
--
Ian

On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:28:33 -0000, "Woody"
wrote:


Complexified?

Wossat?


A word meaning "made complex".

It is in the Oxford English Dictionary along with its close relatives:
complexify, complexification and complexifying.

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

On Feb 27, 1:34*am, J G Miller wrote:
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:33:53 -0800, wrote:
that were were two vertically polarised relays in the valley

Was this a South Wales Valley?

No, it was up in the Wild West (of Yorkshire).

Bill

"Bill" wrote in message
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widgitt writes
http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/a...ucket/Dish.jpg

Another one for Bill


Would have been neater if he had taken the cables down inside the vent
pipe :-)

Nah!
You would get **** reception that way.
[Gets coat]

On Feb 27, 2:00*am, Bill wrote:
In message
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On Feb 26, 11:09*pm, widgitt wrote:
http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/a...ucket/Dish.jpg

Another one for Bill

I went to a communal system a few months ago (bloody miles away it
was) and when I finally winkled the bone idle caretaker out of his
hovel and got the roof keys off him

Bill,
talking of roof keys, *do you know the FB series? *I'm not sure what the
legal position is over access but I've noticed a fair few blocks have
gone away from using these. *Used to be a time when nearly every council
block had them. *Now they seem to rely on a caretaker having the
relevant keys. Not very good in normal times, let alone if access needed
in a hurry, there again a fireman's axe is quite effective I suppose.

--
Bill *( a different one )

It's odd this. I have some FB keys but not all of them, and I didn't
get them as FB keys, I was given them for specific doors. I ought to
have a sort out.

There's one estate where the keys to the voids have been lost for
years, so standing orders are to break in as necessary and then get
Works to fit a new door, frame, and lock. When they do this I ask for
the keys the next day and they have invariably lost them.

Bill

On Feb 27, 9:28*am, "Woody" wrote:
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Complexified?

Wossat?

--
Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

Yes, it was considerably complexified. I think the residents had been
flummoxed by the complicatory and convolutorial entanglation of the
signals from the two transmitters. I tried to explain it but they just
looked at me gone out. Dead thick some people.

Bill