I was playing one of these guys the other day and grabbed a shot with my BlackBerry to send to a friend. I put it on my Facebook so I could share it with you all. It's obviously a Nazi version...
Been going the last 10 years or so. It's in Dayton and I make the trip from the east central border near WV. Hotels are usually pre-booked months in advance, and all the good close ones are always full. I already have reservations in fact:)
I understand what you mean. Recently I picked up the game Full Spectrum Warrior and it described what is called 'the fog of war' in the training levels. They used the term 'situational awareness' to define it too. They basically said that in a combat situation, you won't be able to notice things not in your immediate field of vision and to rely on others in the fire team to watch those areas.
Think of it this way. You go on a hike/bike/jog and you want to carry as little as possible. You already have a water bottle, and you want to listen to your iPod to pass the time yet still want to have the cellphone in case of emergencies. Do you carry all three or would you rather combine the functionality in to fewer devices? Convergence is the best thing ever but only if it is done right
And yes to get it out of the way, being on Slashdot I should just recommend that a water bottle company consider incorporating cellular and iTunes into their product lines....
I remember a story about a guy that saved change, possibly pennies only, for years in barrels in his basement. Got them all out one day and went and bought a brand new Dodge Ram or the like with them. There may have been some cashing in beforehand though, I don't remember exactly. Although bits come to mind about the bank refusing to help due to the sheer volume of coin.
Somebody should google for the story and set me straight. I would but i'm off to the pub. I have my priorities, you know.
There is next to no thing as an 'illegal amplifier' for an amateur (Ham) operator. There are certainly power limits within certain bands, but on some bands that can be 1500 Watts. Most hams will help out and try to work with someone when they know they are causing interference to resolve the problem. Did you ever talk to him? Fact is, your TV says right in the manual that it 'must not cause harmful interference and must accept any interference caused to it' or something to that notion. It's in the FCC statement probably on the back cover or inside the front cover.
Oh and you say he could be heard out of your computer speakers when the computer was off. Were your speakers off as well? Probably not...and you can hold a cellphone near them and see how easy it is to cause them to make noise. I usually know when i'm about to get a call or SMS before the phone makes a noise due to the signal getting in to my speakers.
It would be great to have a mini cell site that would interface with one or more land lines at home or at a business. Frequency coordination would be a pain i'm sure, otherwise cellphone makers would need to incorporate an extra band in the phone specifically for such use, such as 900MHz, 2.4GHz, or 5.8GHz ISM bands.
I almost thought that Nokia had something planned when I found some settings in my old 5160 AT&T phone. It had something that sounded like you could choose between public and private networks, or both. I wish private network meant one that I installed at my home...
How about all these multiband GSM phones? I wonder if we could come up with some base stations that worked in the 900/1800 band that is used in Europe. Over there they could have 850/1900 bases too. How about making that work?
These have been around for years. My buddy has one of the first models they made. It worked with the 51xx/61xx models of Nokia phones. It also was the better model that he bought, that featured an external antenna connector. He would use it with a 2-line cordless phone around the house so he could answer whichever phone happened to ring. It has drawbacks though. He finds that he never gets text msg. notifications and only the GSM phones will pass CID info. He gets echo problems if he doesn't turn down the volume on the phone also. I'd like to see one of the new models that work with the Motorola phones and see how they work.
What i'd really prefer is a 'base station' that plugs into my landline and lets me use a second NAM on the phone to place local calls through the cell instead. I remember seeing some stuff in the Nokia programming menu that alluded to something like that possibly but never found anything else about it.
No it's not allowed anymore. They claim it is because Netbank never actually 'confirmed' your identity by your walking in to a brick-and-mortar branch and presenting your ID in person to be verified. I'll be looking for another bank account soon because of this foolishness.
My phone did that too for a few hours on 10/26. It eventually went back to it's normal AT&T Wireless though. Oh and my Ogo said it also when I checked it. I wonder why the switch, and then the switch back. I did call 611 for shits and it was the same IVR voice and menu stuff but it didn't pick up my phone number automatically...it asked me to key it in. I didn't go any farther than that.
Oh, and I noticed that on one of the sites it described the 4 antennas at the tower top for "communicating with Air Force One." That may be the source of some interference. Wonder if it's air-to-ground data link or just a 'remote base' of sorts for voice comms.
I've seen many of the towers they are talking about in the article. Many are being sold off as business bunkers or dismantled due to fiber optics being the medium of choice these days. The towers belong to what was called the 'long lines' division of AT&T.
The primary purpose of these towers was to relay AT&T's transcontinental long distance communications but they also seemed to be a source of backup communications for govt. sites around the US, including the Congressional Relocation Facility, hidden under the Greenbriar Hotel in SE West Virginia. Another use was to serve as a network feed for many local TV stations, a need that requires high bandwidth. This is of course before satellite took over for that purpose.
I have noticed that many sites have 4 identical antennas at the very top in a square shape. This is a configuration I recently observed on the rooftop of what I can assume was a secret service Chevy Suburban that was leading the motorcade for VP Dick Cheney. I saw the motorcade in Pittsburgh on Saturday as I exited the Fort Pitt tunnels on to the Parkway West, they were coming down the hill about to enter the tubes and go in to the city. I also saw another suburban behind the first that appeared to have a large dome on the roof, possibly a radar of some kind.
No matter what, at least it has to be more legal than the 'key-down showdown' stuff that used to be popular on the CB radios. I saw a guy with a suburban that had like 6 alternators on some custom bracketry, the entire rear cargo area full of batteries, and two large coil antennas on the roof. He claimed that he had a different length of coax on one antenna so that by the time the signal from the rear antenna 'slammed into' (his words) the front antenna would start transmitting and it helped his performance. They usually sit people many miles away and whomever can be heard the loudest wins. Everyone transmits at once I guess. Craziness.
Anyway i'm just wondering what the limits are for dB gain on a certain power level to keep within the legal limits. I have an Andrew 24dB gain dish for 2.4GHz and I wonder if I hooked it to my Lucent card if it would be a legal power level.
Yeah that Molson XXX is good stuff. Brought some back from the duty-free store on my last trip to Niagara Falls. Along with some Labatt Blue, some Bud Light that was brewed by Labatt (it was neat, otherwise no good reason to buy it..was better than the anhueser-busch version though), some Maximum Ice by Labatt (also decent) and like 5 bottles of wine. The one thing I wish I got more of was some ice wine made by Pillitteri, that stuff is the shit.
Cellular phone companies have been doing it for a long time. Not at first though, they sold the phones for big money and the service for a lot too. Apparently that was the only option then, since the technology wasn't around for thes micro-size phones like we have today. If they would have tried a loss-leader then, then maybe we would all still be using CB Radio due to bankruptcy:)
Actually, you need to go back further than that to be 'original'. The Monorail was the first that I can recall that was built on that premise. It had a crappy dual-scan LCD and not much horsepower, but was still a neat looking device that got a lot of service as a POS terminal at a few stores I know of. I still use quite a few of the keyboards, as they showed up at an electronics wholesaler I live near for $5 bucks. They are simply Mitsumi keyboards with a neat dark grey color and light colored keys.
Here's a link to an article remembering the Monorail, as told by LINUX.com
Good eye on that, I was just about to post the same thing saying it was funny of him to leave it that way. Rather then rename the file then make a new page he left the same URL there and changed the content. Hard to say if it was on purpose or not. I'd bet it was knowing his style:)
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I guess /dev/null will finally be a real place.
I was playing one of these guys the other day and grabbed a shot with my BlackBerry to send to a friend. I put it on my Facebook so I could share it with you all. It's obviously a Nazi version...
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1790730&l=58123b17f4&id=1049148624
Timing purposes more than likely. GPS offers much more than just location services...
Also, the Femtocells use the location data to coordinate frequency usage so as not to interfere with nearby cell sites.
There was a solar-powered repeater operated by a local club on top of a mountain, broadcasting at 100 watts.
You mean transmitting at 100 watts. It is illegal to broadcast on amateur frequencies except under very limited conditions.
Semantics. To the muggles it means the same thing.
Boatanchors.
Been going the last 10 years or so. It's in Dayton and I make the trip from the east central border near WV. Hotels are usually pre-booked months in advance, and all the good close ones are always full. I already have reservations in fact :)
Check it out here: Clicky
I understand what you mean. Recently I picked up the game Full Spectrum Warrior and it described what is called 'the fog of war' in the training levels. They used the term 'situational awareness' to define it too. They basically said that in a combat situation, you won't be able to notice things not in your immediate field of vision and to rely on others in the fire team to watch those areas.
Think of it this way. You go on a hike/bike/jog and you want to carry as little as possible. You already have a water bottle, and you want to listen to your iPod to pass the time yet still want to have the cellphone in case of emergencies. Do you carry all three or would you rather combine the functionality in to fewer devices? Convergence is the best thing ever but only if it is done right
And yes to get it out of the way, being on Slashdot I should just recommend that a water bottle company consider incorporating cellular and iTunes into their product lines....
I remember a story about a guy that saved change, possibly pennies only, for years in barrels in his basement. Got them all out one day and went and bought a brand new Dodge Ram or the like with them. There may have been some cashing in beforehand though, I don't remember exactly. Although bits come to mind about the bank refusing to help due to the sheer volume of coin.
Somebody should google for the story and set me straight. I would but i'm off to the pub. I have my priorities, you know.
There is next to no thing as an 'illegal amplifier' for an amateur (Ham) operator. There are certainly power limits within certain bands, but on some bands that can be 1500 Watts. Most hams will help out and try to work with someone when they know they are causing interference to resolve the problem. Did you ever talk to him? Fact is, your TV says right in the manual that it 'must not cause harmful interference and must accept any interference caused to it' or something to that notion. It's in the FCC statement probably on the back cover or inside the front cover.
Oh and you say he could be heard out of your computer speakers when the computer was off. Were your speakers off as well? Probably not...and you can hold a cellphone near them and see how easy it is to cause them to make noise. I usually know when i'm about to get a call or SMS before the phone makes a noise due to the signal getting in to my speakers.
It would be great to have a mini cell site that would interface with one or more land lines at home or at a business. Frequency coordination would be a pain i'm sure, otherwise cellphone makers would need to incorporate an extra band in the phone specifically for such use, such as 900MHz, 2.4GHz, or 5.8GHz ISM bands.
I almost thought that Nokia had something planned when I found some settings in my old 5160 AT&T phone. It had something that sounded like you could choose between public and private networks, or both. I wish private network meant one that I installed at my home...
How about all these multiband GSM phones? I wonder if we could come up with some base stations that worked in the 900/1800 band that is used in Europe. Over there they could have 850/1900 bases too. How about making that work?
These have been around for years. My buddy has one of the first models they made. It worked with the 51xx/61xx models of Nokia phones. It also was the better model that he bought, that featured an external antenna connector. He would use it with a 2-line cordless phone around the house so he could answer whichever phone happened to ring. It has drawbacks though. He finds that he never gets text msg. notifications and only the GSM phones will pass CID info. He gets echo problems if he doesn't turn down the volume on the phone also. I'd like to see one of the new models that work with the Motorola phones and see how they work.
What i'd really prefer is a 'base station' that plugs into my landline and lets me use a second NAM on the phone to place local calls through the cell instead. I remember seeing some stuff in the Nokia programming menu that alluded to something like that possibly but never found anything else about it.
No it's not allowed anymore. They claim it is because Netbank never actually 'confirmed' your identity by your walking in to a brick-and-mortar branch and presenting your ID in person to be verified. I'll be looking for another bank account soon because of this foolishness.
Same here. Can't remember when the last time it was something other than its current IP.
Perhaps you meant grok.
.com is foreign to her.
I know what you mean though, my Mom is still at the point where any domain that's not
Do not eat iPod shuffle.
I saw that too. What, $99 and I still can't eat it? For that kind of money it should have a fruity taste as well.
My phone did that too for a few hours on 10/26. It eventually went back to it's normal AT&T Wireless though. Oh and my Ogo said it also when I checked it. I wonder why the switch, and then the switch back. I did call 611 for shits and it was the same IVR voice and menu stuff but it didn't pick up my phone number automatically...it asked me to key it in. I didn't go any farther than that.
Oh, and I noticed that on one of the sites it described the 4 antennas at the tower top for "communicating with Air Force One." That may be the source of some interference. Wonder if it's air-to-ground data link or just a 'remote base' of sorts for voice comms.
I've seen many of the towers they are talking about in the article. Many are being sold off as business bunkers or dismantled due to fiber optics being the medium of choice these days. The towers belong to what was called the 'long lines' division of AT&T.
The primary purpose of these towers was to relay AT&T's transcontinental long distance communications but they also seemed to be a source of backup communications for govt. sites around the US, including the Congressional Relocation Facility, hidden under the Greenbriar Hotel in SE West Virginia. Another use was to serve as a network feed for many local TV stations, a need that requires high bandwidth. This is of course before satellite took over for that purpose.
I have noticed that many sites have 4 identical antennas at the very top in a square shape. This is a configuration I recently observed on the rooftop of what I can assume was a secret service Chevy Suburban that was leading the motorcade for VP Dick Cheney. I saw the motorcade in Pittsburgh on Saturday as I exited the Fort Pitt tunnels on to the Parkway West, they were coming down the hill about to enter the tubes and go in to the city. I also saw another suburban behind the first that appeared to have a large dome on the roof, possibly a radar of some kind.
Some really good links with in-depth descriptions including interior photos of the bunkers:
http://www.drgibson.com/towers/
http://long-lines.net
No matter what, at least it has to be more legal than the 'key-down showdown' stuff that used to be popular on the CB radios. I saw a guy with a suburban that had like 6 alternators on some custom bracketry, the entire rear cargo area full of batteries, and two large coil antennas on the roof. He claimed that he had a different length of coax on one antenna so that by the time the signal from the rear antenna 'slammed into' (his words) the front antenna would start transmitting and it helped his performance. They usually sit people many miles away and whomever can be heard the loudest wins. Everyone transmits at once I guess. Craziness.
Anyway i'm just wondering what the limits are for dB gain on a certain power level to keep within the legal limits. I have an Andrew 24dB gain dish for 2.4GHz and I wonder if I hooked it to my Lucent card if it would be a legal power level.
Yeah that Molson XXX is good stuff. Brought some back from the duty-free store on my last trip to Niagara Falls. Along with some Labatt Blue, some Bud Light that was brewed by Labatt (it was neat, otherwise no good reason to buy it..was better than the anhueser-busch version though), some Maximum Ice by Labatt (also decent) and like 5 bottles of wine. The one thing I wish I got more of was some ice wine made by Pillitteri, that stuff is the shit.
You are right, it is called a loss-leader.
:)
Cellular phone companies have been doing it for a long time. Not at first though, they sold the phones for big money and the service for a lot too. Apparently that was the only option then, since the technology wasn't around for thes micro-size phones like we have today. If they would have tried a loss-leader then, then maybe we would all still be using CB Radio due to bankruptcy
You can try this radio out by visiting N2JEU's website and clicking the link for the web-controlled Ten-Tec.
Requires Real Audio to listen in. Plenty of links to established programing for those who don't know which frequencies to pick as well.
Actually, you need to go back further than that to be 'original'. The Monorail was the first that I can recall that was built on that premise. It had a crappy dual-scan LCD and not much horsepower, but was still a neat looking device that got a lot of service as a POS terminal at a few stores I know of. I still use quite a few of the keyboards, as they showed up at an electronics wholesaler I live near for $5 bucks. They are simply Mitsumi keyboards with a neat dark grey color and light colored keys.
Here's a link to an article remembering the Monorail, as told by LINUX.com
Good eye on that, I was just about to post the same thing saying it was funny of him to leave it that way. Rather then rename the file then make a new page he left the same URL there and changed the content. Hard to say if it was on purpose or not. I'd bet it was knowing his style :)