Re: Brother, have you been converted?

Nick Spalding <spalding@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Charles Bishop wrote, in
> <ctbishop-2105081931200001@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 
>  on Wed, 21 May 2008 19:31:20 -0700:
> 
>> In article
>> <usenet-932A64.20523218052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Jim
>> Ellwanger <usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote: 
>> 
>> >In article 
>> ><ctbishop-1805081831400001@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >net 
>> >>,
>> > ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Charles Bishop) wrote:
>> >
>> >> In article
>> >> <dfmanno-64FE41.13245818052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> >> "D.F. Manno" <dfmanno@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >I live in a ground-floor apartment. None of my windows have a
>> >> >clear line of sight for anything other than the building next
>> >> >door. 
>> >> 
>> >> Can you install a mirror on the building next door at the correct
>> >> height? 
>> >
>> >I've never heard of anything like that actually working.  The signal
>> >coming down from the satellites is VERY weak, and at a frequency far
>> >removed from visible light, AND to get the full complement of
>> >DirecTV channels, you've actually got to be "looking at" three
>> >different locations in the sky (or five if you want HD service).  I
>> >suspect the mirror would do little more than reflect sunlight into
>> >people's eyes. 
>> 
>> I thought it would be obvious that I was attempting hyperbole for
>> humor. I'll have to be more blatent in the future. Or else, I have to
>> work on my "there are no shadows in space" type replies.
> 
> When we first came to live here there was what looked like an
> advertising billboard up on the side of Howth Hill painted dark green
> to more or less blend in with the heather.  It was a reflector for a
> microwave link from central Dublin to Wicklow.  It had a clear line of
> sight down the coast clear of the mountains which blocked the signal
> directly from the transmitter which was about nine miles from the
> reflector. 

Do you know what the microwave reflector was made of?
 
 

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