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minus-squareWren@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 month ago"I can’t get any work done because the building is on fire and there’s bees. “Maybe if you stopped complaining…”
minus-squareRamenJunkie@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoWhen I worked at a TV station as an engineer (over a decade ago), I regularly had to dealmwith fucking bees living in the sattelite LNBs. This usually involved spraying an entire can of bee killet spray at the LNB then running inside for the rest of the week.
minus-squareWren@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoWhy aren’t the bees allowed to live in the satellite?
minus-squareRamenJunkie@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThey interfere with the signal to the point of killing the signal.
minus-squareRamenJunkie@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoJust to be a bit more specific, we had these Cband LNBs on the dishes, and the bees would crawl up inside and build nests. The flat end is open. https://5.imimg.com/data5/SELLER/Default/2023/4/298722996/QL/KS/WB/91298536/norsat-lnb-c-band-bro-8115-8215-8515-500x500-1000x1000.jpg https://vikingsatcom.com/products/image/cache/data/LNBs/5G LNB/3200-BPF LNB-500x500.png
minus-squareWren@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month agoVery cool, thanks for sharing. Could someone have built a decoy LNB for the bees?
minus-squareRamenJunkie@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoYou know, that may have been a useful idea for the old ones we had replaced. Just mount them around the sat yard on poles.
"I can’t get any work done because the building is on fire and there’s bees.
“Maybe if you stopped complaining…”
When I worked at a TV station as an engineer (over a decade ago), I regularly had to dealmwith fucking bees living in the sattelite LNBs.
This usually involved spraying an entire can of bee killet spray at the LNB then running inside for the rest of the week.
Why aren’t the bees allowed to live in the satellite?
They interfere with the signal to the point of killing the signal.
Okay that’s fair.
Just to be a bit more specific, we had these Cband LNBs on the dishes, and the bees would crawl up inside and build nests. The flat end is open.
https://5.imimg.com/data5/SELLER/Default/2023/4/298722996/QL/KS/WB/91298536/norsat-lnb-c-band-bro-8115-8215-8515-500x500-1000x1000.jpg
https://vikingsatcom.com/products/image/cache/data/LNBs/5G LNB/3200-BPF LNB-500x500.png
Very cool, thanks for sharing.
Could someone have built a decoy LNB for the bees?
You know, that may have been a useful idea for the old ones we had replaced. Just mount them around the sat yard on poles.
And you get free bees.