Big dish in redditch
 

Going to Redditch yesterday I saw a massive Satellite dish on the Ravensbank Drive where it meets the Coventry highway.

Any ideas what this is for

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.c...multimap.y=223

That is the location

Re: Big dish in redditch
 

ufo spotting

yep thats it ufo spotting
how big is big roughly:)

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About 40 foot high. It was pointing away from me so i could only see the back of it

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No idea, but as a kid I was always fascinated by the BBC's Radio 4 masts in Droitwich, which I used to see regularly when going to see my grandparents in Bromsgrove. Even now, whenever I see them, it reminds me of my childhood.

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Anything like this:- http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/conte...s/2002_465.JPG

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you must be able to find somthing in planning by :google:

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Only applications to erect satellite dishes on residential properties ;)

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I went on holiday in Bude (Cornwall) a few years back, and about half a mile up the coast, there were a whole load of satellite dishes (10 of them), ranging from 3 metres to 20 metres. We stopped, my friend sat there happily taking photos (it *was* an impressive site), then we noticed the GCHQ signs... :Yikes:

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Them dishes are from goonhilly in cornwall i think

http://www.john.burnett.btinternet.c...onhilly_01.jpg
http://www.satellite.bt.com/btgss/pr...ges/Image4.gif
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No no not that big

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Yes, apparently there's some sort of GCHQ installation there. I'm sure anyone who has been in Gloucester would not have failed to notice the big donut sitting in a field - that's the GCHQ building.

The big dishes which you refer to are probably part of BT's teleport installation which I believe links the UK to America.

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Having stood next to some of the dishes that ntl use to receive TV signals, I have to agree that they can be pretty impressive things.

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I've stood next to some of the dishes used to upload to satellite - now that's impressive.

It could be an old tech's tales, but I was told that if you throw a cold Big Mac up infront of an uplink dish it comes back down piping hot!

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So if i ever go past a uplink site and see the techs chucking big macs about now i know why

lol