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Who Needs a Satellite Dish When You Have a Wok?

Posted by samzenpus on from the sweet-and-sour-channel dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Why pay $20,000 for a commercial link to run your television station when a $10 kitchen wok from the Warehouse is just as effective? This is exactly how North Otago's newest television station 45 South is transmitting its signal from its studio to the top of Cape Wanbrow, in a bid to keep costs down."

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  1. How assanine. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Okay, so he spent $10 and "a great deal of time" to make what amounts to a small backfire antennae which I can buy online for $20. Or, I could buy a nice parabolic mesh antenna for about $40. Bottom line, retard. And why is the $20,000 figure even in this article? As long as we're completely making up nubmers, why not $500,000,000.32? Sounds even more impressive!

  2. Re:Missing link in TFA by camperdave · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Can anybody provide a link to the 'American website'

    Perhaps he meant This Site

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  3. Indeed, very cool. But.. by Cyrcyr · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Does it run linux?

  4. Re:Alternatively by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I hear it's quite a wok from the station to the top of Cape Wanbrow