[MLB-WIRELESS] Rental houses and antennas

[rick]

why wait tony, if you build it they will come.
This post was in refrence to some negitive nancys in the irc channel, yeh
thats right im calling you girls becouse you dont even have antennas yet and
your telling people negitive advice

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Langdon (ATC) [mailto:tlangdon at atctraining.com.au]
Sent: Tuesday, 18 May 2004 9:13 AM
To: 'rick'; Melb
Subject: RE: [MLB-WIRELESS] Rental houses and antennas


> ok so far at 3 locations i have had no problem getting
> permission to put a
> antenna ON the roof, my current house has a 6 meter one. none
> of my mast
> designs damage the house in any way (apart from a few broken
> tiles, buying
> spares before is a must)

I've never broken a tile myself. :)
>
> so all you people who tell people they will need ground mounted plates
> becouse the landlord will never say yes DONT, there is a
> reson people are
> happy if you stay at the one house for 5 years, becouse your
> paying off
> there bills, as long as it doesnt change the status of the
> house (ie you can
> take it down) they dont care that much.

This is very true.  And also, approaching the landlord directly can often
give better results than trying to go through the agent.
>
> so before telling people no way how about stating that your
> assuming or
> guessing or you really have no idea, becouse from my
> experiances 3/3 100%
> hitrate well i would say yes they would let you put atleast a
> 3 meter on
> your roof.

This agrees with a lot of other peoples' experiences.

I'm certainly going to put a dish up on the roof, as soon as I know which
direction to point it.  Still waiting for a node to pop up within range.



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