The two desperate electricians hammered in vain on the sides with a drill and were saved only when they got a faint signal on a mobile phone.
The Sun
A faint signal was detected three days later which indicated that it had gone into safe mode.
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The telescope could receive impossibly faint signals, all focused on to a single copper filament at the centre of its 250ft span.
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