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- From: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Satellite Dishes
- Message-ID: <JIM.92Nov18113920@hunter.cs.strath.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 11:39:20 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.113330.29432@axion.bt.co.uk> <144.721411139.kbss.bt.co.uk>
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- In-reply-to: peter@memex.co.uk's message of 17 Nov 92 13:53:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.135337.8701@memex.co.uk> peter@memex.co.uk (Peter Ilieve) writes:
-
- People who live in really old listed buildings (in Oxford or otherwise)
- may already have windows that were bricked up to avoid the Window Tax.
- The answer for them is to unbrick them and cover the hole with fibreglass
- sheet, transparent to radio waves. The sheet could be painted to match the
- original. Then fit the dish in the space behind, building a cupboard into
- the room behind as necessary.
-
- Why not save all this hassle and get the satellite telly - why anyone
- would want this mindless rubbish is beyond me - delivered through a
- fiber-optic cable? [Yes, I know that cable TV is in its infancy, but
- it's time to put a stop to the proliferation of these naff and
- unsightly satellite pdishes.]
-
- Jim
-