J G Miller wrote:
On Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 at 17:08:31h +0100, Terry Casey explained:

From a large scale map, the road is offset about 10 degrees east
of north, so it is pointing at something at around 10 degrees west

No clue as to the ethnicity of the residents?


No. I've never seen anybody entering or leaving when I've gone past and
there are no other clues on the building itself - posters, etc.

If it was pointing at Atlantic Bird 3 at 5.0° West, the most probable
reason would be for the reception of FTA France Television, or the
encrypted Fransat or BIS services.

http://www.lyngsat.COM/ab3.html

If it really is pointing more towards 10° West, then the most probable
reason would be for the reception of of Atlantic Bird 1 at 12.5°W

http://www.lyngsat.com/ab1.html

offering a whole plethora of FTA stations including Sport Italia,
Arabic stations, Balkan stations etc.

Or in between Telecom 2D & Atlantic Bird 2 at 8.0°W offering a few
FTA esoteric Arabic language stations.

I've looked into this again - there is a perfect edge-on shot on Google
street view which confirms my perpendicular-to-the-wall statement (and
also shows that the amputation exercise has resulted in a slight twist!)

I've also looked at Java Jive's excellent calculator tool which shows
the 8.0°W bearing precisely along the building line - anything further
west would need some (RF) transparent brick work!

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Terry