Do you know what this is

I wonder how many of you recognize what this is from this first shot, so let's see and let me nowt say much more till after you see the first image.

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This shows a little more of what it is, incase you did not recognize it in the first Image. I will not say what it is yet, but will say I have built so many of these over the years I have lost count.
Some ask me to tell stories about my time in the field so I guess this is a good chance to tell one.
Many years ago in one of the Missions we had a few of these trailer mounted ones delivered to the port so we had to go and pick them up and return them to the base ready to be deployed to offices around the country.
We took off tot he port with a convoy of about 6 vehicles to the port, and though we had enough time to make it back to our base in one day and not have to stay overnight in the city where we picked them up.

We miscalculated that driving with trailers in tow we had to go a bit slower, and secondly did not factor in some snow that came down along the way and slowed us down even further, so making a short story long here I guess, but it ended up it got into the night and the breaks failed in one of the vehicles and the mechanic we had with us couldn't repair the breaks and suggested we leave the vehicle behind and continue on we were not near anywhere safe to stay for the night and there had been some fighting in the area recently so it wasn't particularly safe there.

But me being me, I didn't want to leave one of the Trailers behind as it had taken ages to get them out of Customs and we had a ne=ed for them.
if it had just been the vehicle I would have left it, but the two vehicles that did not have trailers hitches, so I decided I would drive the vehicle without breaks and a friend who I trusted a lot, would drive one of the other 4x4's in front of me and act as my breaks for the few hills we had to go down on the Hour and a half trip back to base.

To make a long story short we made it back to our Headquarters safely with no damage to the trailer, but a bit of damage to the front of my vehicle and the back of the vehicle my friend was driving, and I think I must have lost 5 pounds from stress and sweat along that drive.

The crazy things we do when we are younger.

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And for those who did not know what it was here is a shot of the full Satellite dish, they come in various sizes, this one is an 11 Metre Satellite dish, and we still have many of these installed and they provide a backbone for network and voice connectivity for many locations we have offices around the world where there is no leased lines or connectivity.

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