"I noticed workmen on the roof of the BT exchange... then it dawned on me that with them wandering around up there that they would have been obscuring the receiving dish from our site from time to time."
Back in the days when I worked for a telco we used to impress on anyone going anywhere near the dishes that they were _NOT_ to stand in front of them for fear of being sterilised.
One got smart and said that he's already had a vasectomy - at which point a set of _very_ rusty scissors were waved about and pointed to as the part to be afraid of when in the hands of an annoyed tech.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
