Floating chimney. Am I seeing things?

[Peter Scott]

That's wonderful Anna. It can't have been a deliberate pun of genius can it? No I think them what decides these things will be devoid of humour.

Peter Scott

[John Stumbles]

Is that for real? I've seen it in circulation in one of those Friday afternoon emails as a joke.

[Owain]

[tony sayer]

Yes it is according the Google mapping;)...

[Hugo Nebula]

I knew of a barn conversion once where the owner wanted to build a chimney, but the listed buildings officers refused and made him install a stainless steel flue. They said a chimney was not a traditional feature of a barn, and they preferred any alterations to be obvious.

[Andy Wade]

Yes, I believe satellite dish inside fibreglass chimney has been done.

[Peter Scott]

I live in a barn conversion. The difference is that it was converted to a house about 150 years ago. Guess what? They built in two chimneys. I sometimes think the planners and other busybodies live in a parallel universe where the only rules are those they dream up now. No sense of history or perhaps just no sense.

Peter Scott

[Peter Scott]

I'm not doubting what you say, but wouldn't that cause great attentuation of the signal?

Peter Scott

[Steve Firth]

Well... You see those radomes on ships and the giant golf balls at Fylingdales? They used to be made of fibreglass.

[<me9]

Not particularly. A lot of SHF dishes and other aerials are enclosed in a fibreglasss shroud. Less attennuating than a dishfull of snow!

[Peter Scott]

Interesting. That's one of those facts to stow away. Bound to come in useful one day. I suppose I was thinking that the tiny amounts of energy coming from a TV satellite 40 000 km would be lost where the larger amounts from radar wouldn't.

Peter Scott

[geoff]

You have to realise that properties change with frequency

[Rod]

The transmit pulse of radar is relatively strong; the echo can be exceedingly weak. Its range and effectiveness depend inter alia on the system's sensitivity to receiving (and interpreting) that echo.

[Andrew Gabriel]

Reminds me of Ionica, who discovered that all the aerials they put up through the Autumn and Winter stopped working in the spring when the trees started growing new leaves.

[tony sayer]

In article , Andrew Gabriel scribeth thus

And there are a lot of them in Cambridge where they we're based for a start. Wonder why they didn't know or do something about that?..

Still their original business model was unsustainable anyway..