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Moncton preps for record-breaking U2 concert

Moncton is preparing to welcome as many as 100,000 music fans to the southeastern New Brunswick city to watch the final concert of U2's record-setting tour.

The Irish rock band wraps up its 360 Tour in Moncton on Saturday at the Magnetic Hill outdoor concert venue, the same location that has previously hosted bands such as the Rolling Stones and AC/DC.

Moncton Mayor George LeBlanc said he is expecting U2 to draw a larger crowd than any of the earlier mega-concerts. A record crowd is also expected to earn the city a windfall of cash.

The Rolling Stones drew 78,000 fans to their 2005 concert, the previous record. Moncton officials predicted after the U2 concert was announced that as many as 100,000 people could pack into the outdoor concert venue.

"We would expect that it would probably be somewhere in the range of $15 million and up," LeBlanc said of the concert's estimated economic benefit to the city.

"We were looking at about, I believe, 75,000 to 85,000 people then [in 2005], and the economic benefit from that was about $15 million, so we expect it will be equal to that if not greater."

The Moncton concert is U2's first appearance in Atlantic Canada and it is capping off a record-breaking concert tour.

The concert tour kicked off in Barcelona in the summer of 2009, and has passed the $558-million threshold in revenue, making it the highest-grossing music tour of all time. Some industry estimates suggest the tour could gross roughly $700 million by the time the Moncton concert wraps up.

The city's mayor said officials worked hard to bring the tour's final show to New Brunswick.

"This is a very big show.… This is the biggest, most successful tour in history for a rock band," LeBlanc said.

"We're having the grand finale of the world tour right here in Moncton, so that's pretty special. It's going to be big. It's going to be very big. And you know, whatever the challenges are, we will meet them.

The Significance of Making Outdoor Satellite Engineering Waterpro

Some of the fans may think that the outdoor device which is designed to suit the outdoor working condition must have the characteristic of waterproof; however, it’s unfortunately becomes a wrong concept. Maybe the LNB (Low Noise Block) and antenna can work well in big rain, the coaxial cable and the conjunctive part of the two devices could be a big problem if you don’t pay enough attention to them.

Here is a problem that a fan of satellite TV once had. One day, the user turned on his Dreambox as usually, only to find there is no signal info on the screen. He first scanned all the devices in the satellite terminal, only to find the LNB looks a little broken. He replaced the LNB and turned on the satellite receiver again. The no signal message is still there. Then he used the voltmeter to test the voltage supplied to LNB. He found that the voltage is 0. The user thought the problem may be generated by Dreambox, so he tested the output voltage of the satellite receiver and found it 14.75V. Then he found the problem is resulted from a conjunctive part of the coaxial cable. It’s a newly installed switch which had been greatly corroded. Then he fixed this problem by using the seal glue to seal the whole switch and then put it into an empty bottle. In order to prevent the same problem happen again, he also treated the LNB and coaxial conjunction part using the same method.

Now, let’s see into this example. Why does the newly installed switch could be corroded so severe? This is because the water gets into the conjunctive part and always stays there. The coaxial cable is used to provide power, so there has electrolysis in water. Then the electrolysis water begins to corrode the copper and make the cable narrower. Since the cable is narrower, there will have more heat and exaggerate the electrolysis. This is circulation finally made the conjunctive part become lose and lost its function of conjunction. Actually, the LNB also has such problem, however, there isn’t power supply in water, and so the water will not have the electrolysis phenomenon and will not have this problem either.

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