Nishi-Hachioji: on aerials

A friend here lent us a nifty pc card modem that slots into your computer and gets you broadband connection here in Japan ... like all wireless connections it depends on an aerial. And aerials are more luck than good management, more art than science it often seems. At first we couldn't get the red light to change to green showing a connection was happening

... before abandoning the hope of a connection altogether we tried to improve the aerial and hunting amongst the kitchen utensils found a nice stainless steel "egg slice" ... the lights went green and that's what makes this blog possible!!!

Here is the dish of cabbage and noodles we mentioned previously


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