*Throws hands in the air*
Jun. 17th, 2008 05:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
baronessekatSituation:
We have three satellite dishes at work to capture feeds. A, B, and C. All three were installed before I started. Dish C has never been able to capture the feed it was installed for. Shortly after I got here we got a guy out to look at it. He hooked the dish up to some gizmo and after some futzing, came up with the conclusion that the dish is too close to the building to be able to point at the satellite it needs to. He says that in order to point to the right place the dish needs to be 8 feet highter.
I look to where he points on the horizon and nod. I then look to dishes A & B, see where they are pointing to in the sky, do the geometry in my head and say to him and my supervisor... "Couldn't we reprogram dish C to capture the feed that A or B get and point one of those to where C needs to look?" This being the logical thing and to my mind the most cost effective way of getting what we want. A & B could easily (by my uneducated reconing and logistical analysis of the geometry and general placement of things) point to where the feed from C comes and C could easily point to either A or B's satellite and not be bothered by the building or growing trees.
This idea gets shot down because "we don't want to loose the feeds we already get".
OK, I buy that.
Today's development:
After looking into cost of extending the pole Dish C is on as well as other alternatives (which included putting Dish C on the roof - not an option when you have storage facility tin roofs) the satellite dish guy calls supervisor and suggests .. get this... pointing Dish C to satellite A or B and having then Dish A or B point to satellite C. Supervisor says "Yeah that might work".
I just sigh, give him a look and shake my head and go back to work. Sometimes I really wish I could say "told you". and had they followed my suggestion back then we could have potentially saved the company $12,000+ in shipping fees that we had to pay to get the programs overnighted to us every week rather than getting the direct feed.
But what do I know.
I know, I know... I'm just a girl. I realize that and where I work that is actually an excuse.
We have three satellite dishes at work to capture feeds. A, B, and C. All three were installed before I started. Dish C has never been able to capture the feed it was installed for. Shortly after I got here we got a guy out to look at it. He hooked the dish up to some gizmo and after some futzing, came up with the conclusion that the dish is too close to the building to be able to point at the satellite it needs to. He says that in order to point to the right place the dish needs to be 8 feet highter.
I look to where he points on the horizon and nod. I then look to dishes A & B, see where they are pointing to in the sky, do the geometry in my head and say to him and my supervisor... "Couldn't we reprogram dish C to capture the feed that A or B get and point one of those to where C needs to look?" This being the logical thing and to my mind the most cost effective way of getting what we want. A & B could easily (by my uneducated reconing and logistical analysis of the geometry and general placement of things) point to where the feed from C comes and C could easily point to either A or B's satellite and not be bothered by the building or growing trees.
This idea gets shot down because "we don't want to loose the feeds we already get".
OK, I buy that.
Today's development:
After looking into cost of extending the pole Dish C is on as well as other alternatives (which included putting Dish C on the roof - not an option when you have storage facility tin roofs) the satellite dish guy calls supervisor and suggests .. get this... pointing Dish C to satellite A or B and having then Dish A or B point to satellite C. Supervisor says "Yeah that might work".
I just sigh, give him a look and shake my head and go back to work. Sometimes I really wish I could say "told you". and had they followed my suggestion back then we could have potentially saved the company $12,000+ in shipping fees that we had to pay to get the programs overnighted to us every week rather than getting the direct feed.
But what do I know.
I know, I know... I'm just a girl. I realize that and where I work that is actually an excuse.
