The question is, how many engineers does it take to install a satellite dish?! In my case, 16 people! Wah liao, I've never seen so many people in the meeting room before that some had to stand and listen to the meeting. And there's only one M&E supervisor and myself having to discuss all these technical details to which I have totally zilch knowledge in.
Interestingly, I wondered why it takes 16 people. This is the case.
- Three of them are from the radio wave company (the ones who owns the transmission).
- Three of them are the suppliers of the satellite dish, to discuss with team No. 5 on the size required and other parts required for the satellite dish transmission.
- Three are contractors, who will do the installation of equipments onto the mast-antenna and the control rooms.
- Three are electricians who will study how much heat these equipments in the control rooms will generate, and they have to study on how many horse-power airconditioner is needed, and where to tap the needed electricity from our building's power source.
- Three are engineers who will study the mast-antenna itself, to check in the loading of the dish, the weight, the diameter, whether the mast can hold during thunderstorm, strong wind, how much clamping is needed, etc.
- Another one is the supplier for the equipments for the control room.
My colleague was shaking his head, saying that only one person is needed from each company, or at maximum, two is needed for successful discussion. Right now all 16 are at the rooftop, I think tenants of other buildings will look out their office windows, look at our rooftop above them and think "Hmm.... these people are training to climb Everest". Imagine 18 people (plus 2 M&E staff) standing smiling, holding onto the mast-antenna, instead of a Malaysian flag. :D
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