Recent content by axelr

Talked to Fisher Germain (among others), it is a bit too 'unusual' for them. Estate agents want simple things (lease hundred acres, or sell a house), and didn't seem to be interested to talk to farmers they know -- and the response I get is "will let you know if we see anything". I'll try Berrys...

Thank you everyone for responses - still haven't found the "perfect" site (far enough from other buildings), and still looking - and still open to ideas of "finders fee" for anyone who knows potentially-interested farmers and could make appropriate introductions.

Check out tinkerforge.com - for someone with little experience (hardware/software/python/etc), these are much easier to get going than Pi and marginally more expensive. It just works 'out of the box' with windows control software - and then you can write integration of "if this than that" style...

It's not that hard to do with solar panels and batteries for night operation. Of course, in winter, it's going to be quite challenging, average irradiation is 1/10th of summer, so you'd need *lots* of solar panels to pick up enough juice, and lots of battery to ride through a cloudy week. There...

My apologies - just returned from vacay, and will get back to everyone shortly.

Per GPDO, maximum 2 antennas on property qualifies as "permitted development". I need a few more than 2.

Also, it appears that messages/conversations started by TFF members (ie not initiated by me) count against my "5 conversation" limit. I understand the conversation limit is to stop spammers hassling forum members, but I certainly did not expect such pushback to an honest request to raise the...

You can easily see my post (and what I am looking for) via my profile, and in that thread TFF members offered their assistance, which I would like to follow up on. I mean, instead of asking here, I could have just run up the "count" by posting in politics/Ooooh threads, but it didn't seem...

I will readily admit that I am not a farmer, just using TFF to look for something specific (land to lease), so regretfully cannot contribute as much as may be expected by an actual farmer - and ask for forgiveness and permission. Surely staff here are not as as bad as planning enforcement staff...

Have the same problem. Halp! :)

Pfft. If I was zapping drones, it would take me far longer than 2 days to get planning advice, not even talking about planning permission, even with Georgie's help :)

Thanks! It is an unusual request, I haven't received much response/interest going via estate agent route, so least I can do is to be transparent.

Looking for 1-2 acres of land to lease for 1-3 years for installing aerial antennas for a wireless research project. Location: needs to be away from urban areas - 3km away from nearest town, and 500m from nearest dwelling. Roughly within area bounded by Heathrow, Swindon, Worcester, Banbury...

Looking for 1-2 acres of land to lease for 1-3 years for installing aerial antennas for a wireless research project. Location: needs to be away from urban areas - 3km away from nearest town, and 500m from nearest dwelling. Roughly within area bounded by Heathrow, Swindon, Worcester, Banbury...