Mom’s modern media machinations continue apace. Last week she bought a new antenna, a big flat disk type one. It worked much better than the previous one. Even laying flat on the roof it received more stations than the first one. But that wasn’t enough Mom. She decided leaving it just laying on the roof wasn’t sufficient — a mast was needed.
Mom looked at several attachment schemes, settling on a mast attached by two straps to the chimney. She carefully measured and then purchased the appropriate straps. Unfortunately, although Mom got her measurements and math right, she messed up a bit on the geometry and forgot the chimney had a rectangular, and not triangluar, cross section. So 3 times the side length turned out to not be long enough.
Mom is not deterred, however — there’s always next weekend!