Tim Dobson

Photojournalism 101: Build your own celltower

23 April 2013

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In 2011, I went to the Western Isles of Scotland, to the Isle of Skye and Isle of Rasaay. I recently came across this amusing photo I took in Arnish, Rasaay, where I was camping for the night:

Keeping that elevation
Keeping that elevation

I had been trying to maintain an internet connection, via my Nokia N900 phone and Thinkpad x60s Laptop – but I couldn’t get the really slow, GPRS connection to hold, without an extra bit of elevation.

Fortunately, I handily had a Nikon D200 to hand, with a 55-200 f4, which happened to be just the right height…

My photos from this trip (including this one) are now on Flickr, licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 licence – which permits commercial reuse with attribution.

You can watch my video blog from the trip here.

Comments (2)

Ant

23 April 2013

Aha, what you need is a walking pole with antenna mount!

Tim Dobson

23 April 2013

Out of interest, do you know of any commodity (“cheap”) mobile phones you can connect external antennas to?

I suspect an even slightly directional antenna would make quite a different at times…

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