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Biggles · 29th Mar 2019, 10:14 pm

We used to get dishes damaged with naughty people using them as target practice for air rifles (and probably live ammunition seeing some of the holes! The weather skins used to rip also, or maybe the same hooligans used to like the noise of the pellets bouncing off them. The ecapsulated yagis used to drop the shroud off and leave a tiny stub of an aerial which in some cases left the link up, albeit a tad noisy. Many a call out to links dropping out because the rain or mist was of a particular "type" or cancellation due to ground conductivity causing reflections. And as has been said already, those big yellow cable finders. If there's a buried cable, they will find it!
Alan.

29th Mar 2019, 10:14 pm	#15
Biggles Rest in Peace Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Hexham, Northumberland, UK. Posts: 2,234	Re: BT microwave network history We used to get dishes damaged with naughty people using them as target practice for air rifles (and probably live ammunition seeing some of the holes! The weather skins used to rip also, or maybe the same hooligans used to like the noise of the pellets bouncing off them. The ecapsulated yagis used to drop the shroud off and leave a tiny stub of an aerial which in some cases left the link up, albeit a tad noisy. Many a call out to links dropping out because the rain or mist was of a particular "type" or cancellation due to ground conductivity causing reflections. And as has been said already, those big yellow cable finders. If there's a buried cable, they will find it! Alan.