Here on the volcanic plains, already dotted with antenna arrays of various sorts serving not just the BBC but also a number of military communications systems, not to mention intelligence agencies, they are unquestionably magnificent, poised on their wave-splashed crags.
The reason is that the BT line runs over the plain area, and the train-mounted antenna on the roof is applied.
These simple devices, which can be found in most computer stores, are usually plain, flat and ugly plastic boxes with thick antennae jutting out.
"Even Elvis's TV Antenna Gets Sold at Charity Auction," reported The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, around the same time.
Hidden in plain sight in suburban towns throughout Connecticut, cellular phone antennas have been engineered into the good graces of once-hostile communities.
The collection of radio antennas is being erected on the Chajnantor Plain, 5000 meters above sea level in the Chilean Andes, where the dry, sparse air causes minimal distortion of the faint waves from the far reaches of the universe.
The back also looks a bit plainer and somehow cheaper with the top and bottom plastic edges created by the antenna bands.
Relieved by their long-awaited success, flight controllers and scientists became increasingly ecstatic on Sunday as the 400-pound Spirit raised its camera and antenna mast and began transmitting black-and-white picture postcards of its landing place on a broad plain in Gusev crater, near the Martian equator.
So in plain language, the Patriarch needs to hedge his bets.But church leaders' words on political matters are sometimes worth studying closely, because prelates have sensitive antennae.
That's the plain plain plain truth.
