christofire wrote:

> "JNugent"  wrote:
>> Paul Creedy wrote:
>>> Zog The Undeniable wrote:
>>>> George Weston wrote:

>>>>> It's one of those designs that's so bad, its...bad

>>>> I may have changed my mind...I've just seen Roxy Music on the TV and the 
>>>> guitarist had a reverse Firebird with all the gold stuff.  It's like a 
>>>> Tele - it looks a whole lot better when someone is actually playing it 
>>>> (possibly because it has a small body), whereas you can hang a Strat or 
>>>> a Les Paul on the wall and look at the thing.
>>>> An Explorer looks hideous in any situation though ;-)

>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qmgAcysMW8

>> ...which rather proves Zog's point!
>> I like the Valan telescopic heavy-based mike stand though. I've got one of 
>> them in the airing cupboard.

> I used to use Cleartone-branded Valan-pattern stand for a standard lamp. 
> Oddly, the strange 27 tpi 1/2" thread on the top interfaced nicely with a 
> Woolworth's BC lampholder!

Don't laugh...

Having bought a new TV and shifted the "old" Sony LCD model into the 
bedroom, I realised I couldn't balance the set-top aerial on it (well, 
you can't, can you?). But I had a solution...

The trusty old Valan mike-stand, with adaptor removed, accepted the 
aerial as though designed for it - and could be positioned at any height 
and easily angled or turned for optimum DTV reception. I thought it 
looked pretty cool in the window bay.

But Mrs N would have none of it. We had to go out an buy a new (tall) 
chest of drawers to stand the antenna on. Well, it works, but it cost me 
£150.

The Valan is back in the airing copboard.

"JNugent"  wrote in message 
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> christofire wrote:
>
>> "JNugent"  wrote:
>>> Paul Creedy wrote:
>>>> Zog The Undeniable wrote:
>>>>> George Weston wrote:
>
>>>>>> It's one of those designs that's so bad, its...bad
>
>>>>> I may have changed my mind...I've just seen Roxy Music on the TV and 
>>>>> the guitarist had a reverse Firebird with all the gold stuff.  It's 
>>>>> like a Tele - it looks a whole lot better when someone is actually 
>>>>> playing it (possibly because it has a small body), whereas you can 
>>>>> hang a Strat or a Les Paul on the wall and look at the thing.
>>>>> An Explorer looks hideous in any situation though ;-)
>
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qmgAcysMW8
>
>>> ...which rather proves Zog's point!
>>> I like the Valan telescopic heavy-based mike stand though. I've got one 
>>> of them in the airing cupboard.
>
>> I used to use Cleartone-branded Valan-pattern stand for a standard lamp. 
>> Oddly, the strange 27 tpi 1/2" thread on the top interfaced nicely with a 
>> Woolworth's BC lampholder!
>
> Don't laugh...
>
> Having bought a new TV and shifted the "old" Sony LCD model into the 
> bedroom, I realised I couldn't balance the set-top aerial on it (well, you 
> can't, can you?). But I had a solution...
>
> The trusty old Valan mike-stand, with adaptor removed, accepted the aerial 
> as though designed for it - and could be positioned at any height and 
> easily angled or turned for optimum DTV reception. I thought it looked 
> pretty cool in the window bay.
>
> But Mrs N would have none of it. We had to go out an buy a new (tall) 
> chest of drawers to stand the antenna on. Well, it works, but it cost me 
> £150.
>
> The Valan is back in the airing copboard.

"JNugent"  wrote in message 
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> The trusty old Valan mike-stand, with adaptor removed, accepted the aerial 
> as though designed for it - and could be positioned at any height and 
> easily angled or turned for optimum DTV reception. I thought it looked 
> pretty cool in the window bay.

I used an old boom mike stand as a camera tripod. It was the only thing I 
had which would get high enough and close into the room corner enough for 
the angle I needed. The top tube and tilthead from a Velbon tripod passed 
through the mic holder and a couple cable straps stopped it swivelling.

icarusi
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