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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Nemesis on March 02, 2007, 08:21:54 am

Title: Is that a Wok or a satellite dish?
Post by: Nemesis on March 02, 2007, 08:21:54 am
Link to full article (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=000BB3C8-B910-15DC-9E5E83027AF10110)

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Along with friend Murray Bobbette they worked out mathematical equations to prove the curved metal face of a wok would have the same effect as a small satellite dish.


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"We had it connected to the woolshed and initially you couldn't get a signal the width of the paddock and now it can reach up to 20km."


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"The $20,000 for a commercial link was just money we didn't have, so we bought several woks from The Warehouse instead which was convenient and cheap," he said.