From: "Phil Payne" 

> At least the BFBS was intentionally humorous. Unless they were
> field-testing the world's funniest joke.

North Germany is pretty flat.

We lived in Ronnenberg/Benthe, on the B65 from Hannover to Minden.  The
BFBS transmitter was 1kW, mounted on a 30' mast on the back of a truck at
the British Military Hospital, the other side of Hannover and a clear 30km
away. I figured out the line of sight and tried to get a signal with a
10-element Yagi.

Nothing.  Grievously disappointed.  But there was a fair amount of stuff in the way.

It was weeks before someone commented that the signal was vertically
polarised.  I shot home like a rocket, rotated the aerial 30 degrees, and
had a perfect picture.

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