Repeater

The installation of repeater stations and rebroadcast sites should be a matter of priority to help ensure that UNMO team sites are within communication range of the armed contingents in their sector.

Out of nostalgia, perhaps? A full page ad for Patek Philippe has Thierry Stern, the president of the company, saying that he listens to the chime of every watch with a minute repeater that his company makes, as his father and grandfather did before him.

Pressure in an urban water system is typically maintained either by a pressurised water tank serving an urban area, by pumping the water up into a water tower and relying on gravity to maintain a constant pressure in the system or solely by pumps at the water treatment plant and repeater pumping stations.