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Wireless monitoring of an illicit growing operation?
While stomping around a job in the mountains last week I came upon a run of small-gauge (#24 or so) 4-strand wire leading uphill from the site of a house that was recently removed. I'm guessing that the former tenant had a grow going somewhere up there. I opted not to follow the wire; fortunately, the line I'm running goes in a different direction.
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I surveyed a very rural 10 acres a couple of years ago. An old hermit of sorts had lived there for a many years. It was completely grown up with brush. There was no less than a dozen of old trailers, junk cars, inoperative motor homes on it.
The antenna mast was anchored in the old car. Instead of a traditional TV antenna at the top, this fellow had fashioned a rectangular piece of mesh fenceing (aka hog wire)at the top for reception. If you look close you will see a coaxial cable running down to the ground to the shack. Not sure about the quality of reception.
John Harmon
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"..Not sure about the quality of reception."
[sarcasm]Depending on which channel you're trying to get, you probably just have to lean the old Pontiac a little more to the left or right.[/sarcasm]
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If he wasn't an old hermit who grew up in a time when people did things for themselves, he would have gone without TV and probably been crying for someone to save him. I give him credit for his independence and ingenuity. Might come a time when people with his ability's will be in demand.
jud
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Yeap, people like him are my kind of people. Honest as they come and would give the shirt off their back.
John Harmon
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I would doubt he's still receiving any signal if he's still around. No channels broadcast with UHF or VHF anymore. It's all digital broadcast now. It has been around here for a couple of years. Unless and until I get a digital antenna and a converter box, I'll be without TV.
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> I would doubt he's still receiving any signal if he's still around. No channels broadcast with UHF or VHF anymore. It's all digital broadcast now. It has been around here for a couple of years. Unless and until I get a digital antenna and a converter box, I'll be without TV.
the analog antennas still work even for digital TV's. I can pick up lots more stations now than before, even in my fairly remote location. I picked up a 19" Flat Screen digital at Wallyworld for $100, so the converter box is hardly worth it.
hijack
Perry, did you get the email I sent to you through this board?
Bob down in Troy
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I have one or two antennas sitting around that would beg to differ. Not All analogue antennas work with digital signals.
Bob
No, didn't receive it.
try perrywilliams@earthlink.net
The first satellite antenna I saw was a 6ft x 12ft section of chicken wire attached to a 2x4 frame and setting 3ft off the ground and perpendicular to a satellite.
It was at an electronics & appliance store.
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