Apparently they are great for blocking the wheels of a truck in flooding situations and still usable aftwerwards but I had heard the problem with toughbooks besides the price was graphics cards and CPU, not as high end due to heat dissipation issues.

As I type this here at CFB Trenton a competing station's sat truck has a problem, something snapped, the dish is now pointed skywards but not southwest and it's secured from rotating by a rope, my FTP system is working fine and all my video is back in Toronto. I'd recommend mobile FTP for all existing live trucks as well as a back-up transmit system for when things like this happen and the happen to all of us from time to time, now I just have to make a more durable kit for rapid deployment and use in bad weather.

There was a snap and 10 min later not one but two live truck operators were atop the sat truck all while a beeping sound was coming from inside and that's never a good sign.

Probably metal fatigue or something, it just broke and the dish fell back and it's staring at the sky.

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