Checking out the local mast.....


Wasnt sure if this would interfer or not but had no signal issues at all.





Taken with the Mini 2.




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DAFlys Posted at 12-30 02:24
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Very interesting shot DA.    Lots of details.

DowntownRDB Posted at 12-30 03:32
Very interesting shot DA.    Lots of details.

Cheers DT.   

I wanted one head on at the same level and I thought Id taken it but its not on the card so I must have goofed that shot up.

Nice capture.
Some would start screaming about 5G

DAFlys Posted at 12-30 02:24
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Nice. I hope you were upwind?  I've had issues in the past with proximity to transmission masts, with the old Phantom 4, and the Mavic Pro Platinum. But the M2Z and the Mini 1 don't seem to suffer.

Montfrooij Posted at 12-30 06:57
Nice capture.
Some would start screaming about 5G

There's no 5g on that mast yet.   I get a good 5g reception though from the mast further west.

Blériot53 Posted at 12-30 11:43
Nice. I hope you were upwind?  I've had issues in the past with proximity to transmission masts, with the old Phantom 4, and the Mavic Pro Platinum. But the M2Z and the Mini 1 don't seem to suffer.

Not sure what the wind would have to do with radio waves?   I was a little nervous of interference though.

DAFlys Posted at 12-31 01:09
Not sure what the wind would have to do with radio waves?   I was a little nervous of interference though.

Upwind of the sewage farm  

Blériot53 Posted at 12-31 01:49
Upwind of the sewage farm

Ah yes,   there has been many issues with that one,  the local councillor is regularly down there banging on the door.

DAFlys Posted at 12-30 06:00
Cheers DT.   

I wanted one head on at the same level and I thought Id taken it but its not on the card so I must have goofed that shot up.

You're very welcome DA.    That has happened to me before also.  I could have swore I took a particular shot but it wasn't showing up on the SD card.  

That is quite the large sewage treatment plant in that shot.  Hopefully, you don't live to close to that.

DAFlys Posted at 12-30 02:24
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Interesting image, thank you for sharing it. Lots of detail on both the tower and the water treatment plant.

AeroNW Posted at 2021-12-31 15:01
Interesting image, thank you for sharing it. Lots of detail on both the tower and the water treatment plant.

Cheers AeroNW.   

DowntownRDB Posted at 2021-12-31 06:42
You're very welcome DA.    That has happened to me before also.  I could have swore I took a particular shot but it wasn't showing up on the SD card.  

That is quite the large sewage treatment plant in that shot.  Hopefully, you don't live to close to that.

I live in the houses in the middle back of the shot.   Its not usually a problem for us,  maybe once every couple of years something happens that we can smell but so far so good really.

DAFlys Posted at 1-1 02:04
I live in the houses in the middle back of the shot.   Its not usually a problem for us,  maybe once every couple of years something happens that we can smell but so far so good really.

You must live back by the soccer fields then.  Glad the smell is not an issue for you.  

DAFlys Posted at 2021-12-31 01:09
There's no 5g on that mast yet.   I get a good 5g reception though from the mast further west.

They don't care about that. As long as it looks like a 5g mast, they will start screaming.

DowntownRDB Posted at 1-1 05:48
You must live back by the soccer fields then.  Glad the smell is not an issue for you.

A bit further up the hill than that.   More than a mile as the crow flys,  the worst smells are the farmers spreading the muck on the fields at the end of the summer.

Montfrooij Posted at 1-1 12:07
They don't care about that. As long as it looks like a 5g mast, they will start screaming.

I thought the 5g masts were round.

like -

DAFlys Posted at 1-2 01:33
I thought the 5g masts were round.

like -

I never bothered so far.
Although i know we have some test masts close to where I work.

DAFlys Posted at 1-2 01:24
A bit further up the hill than that.   More than a mile as the crow flys,  the worst smells are the farmers spreading the muck on the fields at the end of the summer.

I guess it also depends on the direction the wind happens to be blowing.

Montfrooij Posted at 1-2 04:40
I never bothered so far.
Although i know we have some test masts close to where I work.

How do you know they are test masts?

DowntownRDB Posted at 1-2 05:00
I guess it also depends on the direction the wind happens to be blowing.

Yes that makes a big impact on it.  but the muck spreading is quite a unique smell.

DAFlys Posted at 1-3 01:22
How do you know they are test masts?

Because that is what they do.
Testing data connections.
They have a huge mast on their property and drive around with equipment to test the reception.

DAFlys Posted at 1-3 01:23
Yes that makes a big impact on it.  but the muck spreading is quite a unique smell.

Not sure I'd like to get a whiff of that unique smell then.  

Hello there DAFlys. Good day and thank you for posting this cool overhead photo you have captured. Great work and have a nice day. .

Montfrooij Posted at 1-3 06:59
Because that is what they do.
Testing data connections.
They have a huge mast on their property and drive around with equipment to test the reception.

Ah I see.  I wrongly assumed this was in the street or something.

DowntownRDB Posted at 1-3 14:51
Not sure I'd like to get a whiff of that unique smell then.

Growing up it was much more common,   along with boring the corn fields at the end of the season,  used to be great fun to mountain bike through the burning fields.   But these days most farmers have moved onto chemicals to fertilise and burning is banned unless there is disease.   Its usually only one or two days when you catch the smell and then its gone.

DAFlys Posted at 1-4 00:04
Ah I see.  I wrongly assumed this was in the street or something.

It is quite funny and impressive even to see.
They hang all kinds of disks, antenna's and what not on that mast.
Sometimes I wonder how it all stays up there. Some are bigger than a small car.

Montfrooij Posted at 1-4 00:31
It is quite funny and impressive even to see.
They hang all kinds of disks, antenna's and what not on that mast.
Sometimes I wonder how it all stays up there. Some are bigger than a small car.

Perhaps you need to get a shot of that next time.

DAFlys Posted at 1-4 00:22
Growing up it was much more common,   along with boring the corn fields at the end of the season,  used to be great fun to mountain bike through the burning fields.   But these days most farmers have moved onto chemicals to fertilise and burning is banned unless there is disease.   Its usually only one or two days when you catch the smell and then its gone.

Quite crazy when you look back at some of the things we did as kids.  

DowntownRDB Posted at 1-4 04:36
Quite crazy when you look back at some of the things we did as kids.

I did far worse than that,  maybe thats why Im so risk adverse now.

DAFlys Posted at 1-4 23:51
I did far worse than that,  maybe thats why Im so risk adverse now.

Could very well be.  

DowntownRDB Posted at 1-5 04:42
Could very well be.

You certainly wont catch me up a tree as high as we used to climb.

DAFlys Posted at 1-6 00:13
You certainly wont catch me up a tree as high as we used to climb.

I'm sure I wont.  

DowntownRDB Posted at 1-6 04:08
I'm sure I wont.

Somewhere along the lines I got my fearful of heights.

DAFlys Posted at 1-7 00:06
Somewhere along the lines I got my fearful of heights.

I use to never be afraid of heights, now I just seem to avoid them.  

DowntownRDB Posted at 1-7 12:30
I use to never be afraid of heights, now I just seem to avoid them.

Im worse with ladders than heights,  but still very weary.

DAFlys Posted at 1-8 01:19
Im worse with ladders than heights,  but still very weary.

Yep, and goes back to your risk adverse now.  

DowntownRDB Posted at 1-9 14:40
Yep, and goes back to your risk adverse now.

Yes,   oddly as a 12 year old I got the parents big ladders out to get on the roof to install some cables when they were out,  no probs back then.

DAFlys Posted at 1-10 01:58
Yes,   oddly as a 12 year old I got the parents big ladders out to get on the roof to install some cables when they were out,  no probs back then.

You must have been a daring kid.