"Here's the secret of the signal, Mal - you can't stop the signal."
He might not be Mr. Universe but Ken Jones, a volunteer at UHF television station 45 South in New Zealand is just as determined to make sure that an uplink signal hits the airwaves. Because the station either wasn't able to purchase a $20kus microwave uplink to get their signal to a full-sized broadcast station, Jones constructed a parabolic antenna to broadcast their signal using a $10us wok from a housewares store.
That's right, a wok. As it turns out, if you work the math behind parabolic reflectors, the particular kind of wok he bought works just as well as a commercial microwave emitter for a fraction of the retail cost.
UHF channel 41 is now able to reach the uplink station in Cape Wanbrow, which amplifies and rebroadcasts their signal to the rest of North Otago.