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Old 1-Oct-2012, 1:08 PM   #7
elmo
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Originally Posted by thom View Post
So far so good, but I had to get the tablet up on the roof (pitched S-tile) and be able to read the LCD screen in broad daylight, AND not get my grubby, dirty hands all over it. So I put the tablet inside a black reusable shopping bag, and carried the bag up onto the roof. The bag blocked most of the sunlight so the screen on the tablet didn't wash out and while on the roof getting my hands dirty, I never actually touched the tablet itself. Worked like a charm!

Smart! I carried a 15" laptop up on the roof before to fine tune with my HDHR. I was able to magnify the screen and wedge it in the gutter. The asphalt shingles were not kind to the plastic on the bottom. Prior to that, I had my wife on speaker phone calling out numbers, but sometimes you just need to get realtime feedback. Reminds me of the time I was tuning a sat dish self install. The receiver used an audio tone that went higher as the signal strength increased. Cranked up the stereo w/a speaker in the window. The neighborhood dogs LOVED me!
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