[LINK] Senator Coonan on 7:30 Report

[Richard Chirgwin]

Roger Clarke wrote:
> At 11:10 +1000 19/6/07, Richard Chirgwin wrote:
>> And yes, the 19km link  was a little tricky, but the YLess4U guy has 
>> local knowledge. We were looking out the lakeside window of the 
>> National Museum, I suppose the connection was pointing roughly 
>> northwest between a couple of hills.
>
> Mt McDonald above Cotter reservoir is 788m, cf. the Museum's 560m. But 
> it's slightly south of west.
>
> WNW at 19km is the hill above Uriarra Crossing, but it's only 622m.
>
> NW at 19km is Surveyor's Hill at 788m, but there seem to be no 
> convenient roads and anyway Black Mt's nearby 812m bulk should block it.
>
> Odd.
>
> (Although I can see that he'd have needed to stay away from existing 
> installations, and hence the obvious nearby hills were all too awkward).
>
> I don't want to be unduly sus about YLess4U.  (I don't know them, and 
> I'd love these things to work).  But this doesn't seem to stack up, 
> and, in accordance with Link Institute philosophy, I'm sceptical.
...Be more sceptical of my memory of geography. Just looked at a map, 
which of course is the last refuge of the vague-out ... would 
East-South-East sound more reasonable?

RC
>
> On the positive side:
>
> The towns that they currently cover mostly look more tenable - 
> although Michelago has an awkward low ridge in the middle, and I the 
> Burra valley has a fold in it too: 
> http://www.yless4u.com.au/coverage.html
>
> And the slide set from last year looks pretty credible:
> http://www.yless4u.com.au/news.html
> http://www.atug.org.au/ATUG2006RegionalConf/AnthonyGoonanPresATUG2006RegConf.pdf 
>
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