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RE: Aerial Masts


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  • Subject: RE: Aerial Masts
  • From: "Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:16:11 +0100
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I didn't say it was practical ... just that that would be my preference.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Cooper [mailto:steve.cooper@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 12 June 2001 17:03
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Aerial Masts
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> What are you going to earth them to?
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> Unless you were planning on get up on the roof and taping
> copper wire to
> each bird before switching on the power. :-)
>
> Steve C
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>                     "Phil Harris"
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> RE: [ukha_d] Aerial Masts
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>                     12/06/01 11:13
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>                     Please respond to
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>                     ukha_d
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> The twelve bore would make one hell of a mess of the aerial...
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> ...personally I like the thought of electrification!
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> Phil
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark McCall [mailto:mark@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 12 June 2001 11:09
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Aerial Masts
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> >
> > OR...
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> > Buy a 12 bore and have some fun
> >
> > OR....
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> > Get Tim round with his rifles for a spot of practice.
> >
> > Let the the backlash from the animal lovers commence :-)
> >
> > M.
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> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Stuart Grimshaw" <stuart@xxxxxxx>
> > To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 9:48 AM
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Aerial Masts
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> >
> > > On Monday 11 June 2001 19:39 pm, you wrote:
> > > > I guess this isn't strictly Home Automation but maybe
> you can help
> > > >
> > > > I have a problem or should I say the birds and pigeons
> > have a problem.
> > > > Every day they sit on the aerials attached to my house,
> > above the car
> > > > and drop serious amounts of ....  I mean lots of it.
> > >
> > > This was one of the first questions I asked when I joined
> > the list, and
> > while
> > > I havn't tried any of the yet, here are a few ideas I was
offered.
> > >
> > >    * Electrify the aerial
> > >       Might affect receiption, oh yeah, and is probably
> illegal :-)
> > >
> > >    * attatch of those childrens windmill things to scare
> them away.
> > >       Probably won't be very long lasting.
> > >
> > >    * Attatch luminous plastic strips to the vertical vanes
> > on the main
> > poll.
> > >       The idea being they would flap in the wind and scare
> > the little turd
> > >       machines away. This is my favorite. You can get
> > strips of very tough
> > >       plastic, perhaps one of those luminous cycle safty
> > belts cut up
> > would
> > >       do the job?
> > >
> > > Hope that helps, let me know if any of it works, I'm
> > getting a new car on
> > > Saturday, and I'll need to poop prevention if I want to
> > avoid melting the
> > > laquer of my new wheels.
> > >
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