WOK TV
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This one happened down-under in Australia where a new T-V station wanted to get on the air 
but did not have the cash on hand for a studio to transmitter link antenna. So instead an 
engineer turned to a Chinese cooking utensil for a solution. WIA News Anchor Graham Kemp, 
VK4BB, has the rest of the recipe:

Ken Jones asked himself "Why pay $20,000 for a commercial link to run your television 
station when a $10 kitchen wok from the Warehouse is just as effective?" This is exactly 
how North Otago's newest television station "45 South"is transmitting its signal from its 
studio to the top of Cape Wanbrow, in a bid to keep costs down.

45 South volunteer Ken Jones designed the wok transmitter in his spare time last year. 
Along with friend Murray Bobbette they worked out mathematical equations to prove the 
curved metal face of a wok would have the same effect as a small satellite dish. "We have 
spent a lot of time getting it right - the first time we installed one we had it up a 
pole with the handle still on the end of the wok," he said.
(AR Newsline)