Using APRSISCE program (RF only) occasionally I zoom out to see what stations are there as result of lat/long settings of 000/000 (either too lazy to check configuration or testing hardware). I find a few there. One time I saw a friend's truck in North Atlantic, "hey Norm, how did you get there in just two days?" Obviously some screwed up bits from the laptop.
Today I heard someone said, "APRS: The original Pokemon Go."
So some government regulation is quite appropriate.
if you go way back there was a time when spectrum was unregulated. Gordon West wrote in his GROL book in 1920s (or early 30s) the Supreme Court ruled Dept of Commerce did not have enforcement authority. Radio stations went wild, using whatever freq and power levels they wanted. It became such a mess many listeners turned off their receivers and radio sales plummeted. Later when FCC was created they wrote legislation more carefully.
But it seems FCC has become regulatory captured as they seem more interested in selling spectrum. Interesting to talk with old timers recalling when FCC did enforcement and regulation including Part 15 products (maybe the high tech just got too fast for proper regulation). Many think the free market is more efficient but then there is no and never was a free market (except in the wild west and things were not that great, kind of like Somalia), everything is owned and controlled. If owned and controlled by one or a very few entities, well we get what we got which is what we are all bitching about today.
Thanks for posting this link, I could only find 2003 charts. anyway, I'm old enough to remember seeing freq charts where all the high GHz spectrum was allocated amateur (all that is useless so let the hams have it).
They missed a couple opportunities to get fingerprints. In Bernie Rhodes book, "DB Cooper: The Real McCoy" mentions Cooper offered one of the stewardess a bundle of dollars from the ransom money as a tip, she turned it down in disgust (crap, that could have had his fingerprints for FBI if she took it). And another from that book is when FBI began detailed inspection for prints, "oh he was reading magazines, his seat is 18C, just grab those and dust them" (crap, airliner people cleaned out the trash and stuff before FBI begun inspection).
one thing I always wondered is why did he choose the worst rig to jump, the Navy NB-8. Too lazy to read the details but didn't they provide a Paracommander? Of course he would not know what is packed inside (I'm sure it wasn't laundry as they want to capture him alive), probably a T10 but at least grab a rig that is the more comfortable such as the B-4 container?
Jumped from a 727 at World FreeFall Convention in Quincy IL a few times during 1990s. They issued DB Cooper numbers with a certificate. Though not in order of who went out the back but in order of when 727 jump tickets were purchased. I got #54 in 1992, I also wore a black suit with thin black tie, sunglasses, wingtip shoes, and white socks. The "costume" got lots of laughs. When people ask, I answered, "sorry I lost the money but I put together a 4-way."
Unlike other jump planes, this was moving at 150 mph (flaps down) normally king airs and otters move about 90 or 100. So when hitting the air out the air stair you get instant control. Some jumpers of more skill exit into a track position and are able to rise just above level of the 727 tail.
One year Bernie Rhodes who wrote a book about Richard McCoy who did same as DB Cooper, same MO and jumped with $500K but caught few days later. I got his autograph and picture with him in my DB Cooper costume. Mentioned in this book was McCoy had problem with $500K, that's a lot of cash that has to be hidden someplace in or around his house (not as easy as you think). Of course I'm thinking $200K, $500K or even One Million Dollars is not a lot these days. The book was very compelling, Bernie Rhodes a DOJ probation officer at the time felt McCoy would have probably confessed he was DB, McCoy died shortly after when escaped from prison. Supposably Rhodes theory didn't hold up because FBI got evidence of a phone call made by McCoy from another city while DB hijacked his 727.
Bernie Rhodes also said many prisoners in captive would come forward confessing they were DB Cooper. Bernie would ask questions like what kind of tie clasp did they wear and other details not in the media. Huh, why would anyone confess to a serious crime like a skyjack. Bernie said many of these people were in prison for more serious crimes, skyjacking would be less punishment (I'm still confused how it can be less).
Also back in 1990s there was a downtown lounge (loud music and very crowded) called DB Cooper with a manniquen as DB hanging from the ceiling. Those were the days when we laughed about airplane hijackings.
It seems to me Clinton can give a quick summary of this email issue and put the whole thing to rest. Right now all we get is a carefully scripted water downed explanation that is subject to wide interpretation. There's probably more to it, all speculation by everyone else. Kind of like Area 51 syndrome. Guvmint will not give a clear explanation what they do there so anyone can come up with any explanation that the curious public will bite the whole hook, line, and sinker. i.e. they have freeze dried space aliens and the saucer recovered from Roswell. A ridiculous claim but who will prove this false?
I question can Hyperloop scale up like highspeed rail? Hyperloop may be able to carry thousands but HSR can carry tens or hundreds of thousands. Kind of like SST cannot scale up like subsonic airliners from 707, DC-8, to current models of today.
did you do a screen grab? Whenever I find such ad/article mismatches, I save these in my "diatribes" folder. i.e. Article about Putin expanding Russian military forces and on the side the ad says, "Meet Russian Beauties!"
Dakine1493 wrote on reddit:
Pencil lead is made of carbon.
Koala bears are marsupials.
Jellyfish aren't fish.
A peanut is actually a legume.
Strawberries aren't berries.
Guinea pigs are rodents.
Chinese checkers didn't even come from Asia, let alone China.
Tin foil is made of aluminum.
You dial your phone although you haven't used a rotary phone in years.
Hoverboards don't actually hover.
Other day VTA train called Control asking can a passenger bring a hoverboard on board, I first wondered what this is (can't be the same as in the movie). They said hoverboards not allowed on the train.
I read someplace many companies do this strategy instead of having effective customer support. i.e. video-to-usb devices which I've dealt with a few (they either work or they don't), last one I purchased few years ago was a Dazzler I use occasionally to stream NTSC video from my Win7 laptop for various events. (no, no, no, I don't want to stream the laptop cam or cellphone cam, there's a reason for what I do). It took me awhile to get it working, however, I cannot get audio to stream. Company was zero help, so I searched the web but only find several forum entries of people having same problems I have.
I heard this is typical, let the customers fend for themselves on the forums that end up becoming the tech support and companies didn't have to spend a dime.
However for really good products ($5000 SDI network transmission gizmos) a lot of effort is put into the design so it doesn't have interfacing problems like lowcost products. Because they deal with serious users, they cannot afford to have crappy customer service. It all comes down to you get what you pay for. Another example are lowcost ADS-B receivers, lots of listings and websites that say how easy it is to get one of these $20 devices to watch the airplanes fly around. One company sells such receivers with a mention, "Why spend hours and hours on lowcost receivers that never really work?" Of course their product is a bit pricey for the hobbyist (and also requires monthly subscription).
I admit I lack knowledge of all this, comments from forums, FB, etc. seems to be those outside UK say it is dumb decision, those in UK say it is a smart decision.
A friend from UK posted this:
"Congratulations to my Brexit pals in the UK. A decision that came down to a number of factors, economy, immigration and The Big One -- the gulf between the Haves and the "Have Nots". Brexit will hopefully be a tsunami of political and social change that benefits the US. Because right now its politics as usual backed by a monied "screw everyone else" attitude."
Unfortunately for them, they're trying to put the genie back in the bottle.
But what they can do is make it more difficult for people like me who use youtube to watch vintage concert and TV show clips of footage some random fan found someplace and decide to share it (or me posting something interesting I dug up in my VHS tapes collection). The artist may no longer be phenomenally famous and hasn't done concerts in decades but there are many longtime fans that would be thrilled to see a rare clip of a performance i.e San Remo in 1960s. Hey, the big boys are not going to provide that footage from what they have in the vaults, isn't worth their time. May as well burn it as pretty much all those performances that was filmed is considered permanently locked away. It's the little guy who happen to come across a VHS cassette that his grandparents left behind, and miraculously the video is still viewable. This little guy shouldn't be crushed to share a video of same performance the big boys will never release from the vault.
Another gripe I have is futzing with computer dongles (why the hell it's so hard to do?), I sometimes wonder perhaps all this anti-piracy measures make it difficult to simply use newer technologies. At least I can still moan and bitch on the forums.
Not sure how this fits into this discussion but I was thinking about a satire Mad Magazine had of the movie Camelot. This story is called Can-A-Lot about a canning company, its CEO was Arthur, president emeritus was Melvin. Artists drew characters like those in the movie, re-wrote lyrics to fit this story of the canning company (Camelot I believe it was called) that takes place in modern times. Of course Arthur's adversary was the union leader (Lancelot I think). Then to deal with this, Arthur replaced all the workers with robots (drawn typical mechanical men with lightbulb noses). Eventually pushed to robots to work longer hours and they begin breaking down. One of Arthur's board members suggested it's cheaper to simply replace instead of repair a broken robot. Arthur: "This is the best idea I have!" His board member, "your idea?" Arthur, "glad you like it."
Later in story the overworked robots revolt and burn down the factory, Arthur is left with nothing like in the movie.
Exactly. Even though there are others like nitehawk214 figured since they have high speed internet then everyone else does. I hate it when people look at me like I have a mental disability because some webpages and video I cannot view at home because the internet service is too slow.
Quick! Before they make jammers illegal. Oh wait, they already are. Anyway, this reminds me of story some years ago about jammers where someone read of earlier story, went to ebay and purchase one and he mentioned, "Now my wife and I can have dinner at our favorite restaurant in peace."
to know if I don't eat something in the morning, I will be very distracted until later for lunch time.
One thing to note is ***never*** eat melons along with other foods. If you do eat melons, have them alone then wait for at least 30 minutes before something else. A chart showing food combinations pointed this out, before I saw that my stomach never felt that great after eating melons along with other stuff especially at hotel breakfast buffets.
I think what really doomed SST is these types of aircraft don't scale up like subsonic transports. There are much higher skin temperatures, requires a lot more power and guzzles lots more fuel (I heard expression that Concorde and SR71 were flying gas tanks), difficult to upgrade to longer duration (later 737s go much further than when it first flew), and doesn't really get you there any quicker (need to get to airport hours before flight anyway).
I sure wish I can just watch one camera footage uninterrupted from start to finish instead of constantly jumping from one camera to another, jumping ahead (ok I get it, they have to fit it all in a 3 minute youtube vid). Even NASA does this with virtually all the footage they post but occasionally you can find the raw footage and watch it in entirety. Yes, it takes longer but let me piss away my time please.
Ah yes, we all debate technologies used in this movie with lots of diatribes like in the SpaceX vs. SLS food fight. Here are my favorites:
1. Spacecraft with superluminal speeds over interstellar distances engage in close range combat like 19th century battleships.
2. High power laser or particle beams with a hit/miss ratio just like 20th century bullets from guns.
3. Nobody has to deal with life support systems (i.e. replacing CO2 scrubbers or rig up something like Apollo 13 crew had to do).
4. Food? It seems people only need to eat during plot revealing meetings.
5. Water? Nah, drink booze at a bar where people make plans or get into fights.
6. The top bad guy always wears a cape.
Disclaimer: I only SW movie I saw in a movie theater was the original back in 1977. I saw part of the first two sequels on TV. I have not watched any of the others.
I chose this one because I saw a cartoon of Leonardo da Vinci in his lab with a TV set, holding the power plug he says to his assistant, "Now I have to invent the electric receptacle, the antenna, and God knows what else."
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Using APRSISCE program (RF only) occasionally I zoom out to see what stations are there as result of lat/long settings of 000/000 (either too lazy to check configuration or testing hardware). I find a few there. One time I saw a friend's truck in North Atlantic, "hey Norm, how did you get there in just two days?" Obviously some screwed up bits from the laptop.
Today I heard someone said, "APRS: The original Pokemon Go."
So some government regulation is quite appropriate.
if you go way back there was a time when spectrum was unregulated. Gordon West wrote in his GROL book in 1920s (or early 30s) the Supreme Court ruled Dept of Commerce did not have enforcement authority. Radio stations went wild, using whatever freq and power levels they wanted. It became such a mess many listeners turned off their receivers and radio sales plummeted. Later when FCC was created they wrote legislation more carefully.
But it seems FCC has become regulatory captured as they seem more interested in selling spectrum. Interesting to talk with old timers recalling when FCC did enforcement and regulation including Part 15 products (maybe the high tech just got too fast for proper regulation). Many think the free market is more efficient but then there is no and never was a free market (except in the wild west and things were not that great, kind of like Somalia), everything is owned and controlled. If owned and controlled by one or a very few entities, well we get what we got which is what we are all bitching about today.
Thanks for posting this link, I could only find 2003 charts. anyway, I'm old enough to remember seeing freq charts where all the high GHz spectrum was allocated amateur (all that is useless so let the hams have it).
They missed a couple opportunities to get fingerprints. In Bernie Rhodes book, "DB Cooper: The Real McCoy" mentions Cooper offered one of the stewardess a bundle of dollars from the ransom money as a tip, she turned it down in disgust (crap, that could have had his fingerprints for FBI if she took it). And another from that book is when FBI began detailed inspection for prints, "oh he was reading magazines, his seat is 18C, just grab those and dust them" (crap, airliner people cleaned out the trash and stuff before FBI begun inspection).
one thing I always wondered is why did he choose the worst rig to jump, the Navy NB-8. Too lazy to read the details but didn't they provide a Paracommander? Of course he would not know what is packed inside (I'm sure it wasn't laundry as they want to capture him alive), probably a T10 but at least grab a rig that is the more comfortable such as the B-4 container?
Jumped from a 727 at World FreeFall Convention in Quincy IL a few times during 1990s. They issued DB Cooper numbers with a certificate. Though not in order of who went out the back but in order of when 727 jump tickets were purchased. I got #54 in 1992, I also wore a black suit with thin black tie, sunglasses, wingtip shoes, and white socks. The "costume" got lots of laughs. When people ask, I answered, "sorry I lost the money but I put together a 4-way."
Unlike other jump planes, this was moving at 150 mph (flaps down) normally king airs and otters move about 90 or 100. So when hitting the air out the air stair you get instant control. Some jumpers of more skill exit into a track position and are able to rise just above level of the 727 tail.
One year Bernie Rhodes who wrote a book about Richard McCoy who did same as DB Cooper, same MO and jumped with $500K but caught few days later. I got his autograph and picture with him in my DB Cooper costume. Mentioned in this book was McCoy had problem with $500K, that's a lot of cash that has to be hidden someplace in or around his house (not as easy as you think). Of course I'm thinking $200K, $500K or even One Million Dollars is not a lot these days. The book was very compelling, Bernie Rhodes a DOJ probation officer at the time felt McCoy would have probably confessed he was DB, McCoy died shortly after when escaped from prison. Supposably Rhodes theory didn't hold up because FBI got evidence of a phone call made by McCoy from another city while DB hijacked his 727.
Bernie Rhodes also said many prisoners in captive would come forward confessing they were DB Cooper. Bernie would ask questions like what kind of tie clasp did they wear and other details not in the media. Huh, why would anyone confess to a serious crime like a skyjack. Bernie said many of these people were in prison for more serious crimes, skyjacking would be less punishment (I'm still confused how it can be less).
Also back in 1990s there was a downtown lounge (loud music and very crowded) called DB Cooper with a manniquen as DB hanging from the ceiling. Those were the days when we laughed about airplane hijackings.
It seems to me Clinton can give a quick summary of this email issue and put the whole thing to rest. Right now all we get is a carefully scripted water downed explanation that is subject to wide interpretation. There's probably more to it, all speculation by everyone else. Kind of like Area 51 syndrome. Guvmint will not give a clear explanation what they do there so anyone can come up with any explanation that the curious public will bite the whole hook, line, and sinker. i.e. they have freeze dried space aliens and the saucer recovered from Roswell. A ridiculous claim but who will prove this false?
The rather crass example Seller adds pretty much says it all.
I question can Hyperloop scale up like highspeed rail? Hyperloop may be able to carry thousands but HSR can carry tens or hundreds of thousands. Kind of like SST cannot scale up like subsonic airliners from 707, DC-8, to current models of today.
did you do a screen grab? Whenever I find such ad/article mismatches, I save these in my "diatribes" folder. i.e. Article about Putin expanding Russian military forces and on the side the ad says, "Meet Russian Beauties!"
... because they can't hover.
Dakine1493 wrote on reddit:
Pencil lead is made of carbon.
Koala bears are marsupials.
Jellyfish aren't fish.
A peanut is actually a legume.
Strawberries aren't berries.
Guinea pigs are rodents.
Chinese checkers didn't even come from Asia, let alone China.
Tin foil is made of aluminum.
You dial your phone although you haven't used a rotary phone in years.
Hoverboards don't actually hover.
Other day VTA train called Control asking can a passenger bring a hoverboard on board, I first wondered what this is (can't be the same as in the movie). They said hoverboards not allowed on the train.
I read someplace many companies do this strategy instead of having effective customer support. i.e. video-to-usb devices which I've dealt with a few (they either work or they don't), last one I purchased few years ago was a Dazzler I use occasionally to stream NTSC video from my Win7 laptop for various events. (no, no, no, I don't want to stream the laptop cam or cellphone cam, there's a reason for what I do). It took me awhile to get it working, however, I cannot get audio to stream. Company was zero help, so I searched the web but only find several forum entries of people having same problems I have.
I heard this is typical, let the customers fend for themselves on the forums that end up becoming the tech support and companies didn't have to spend a dime.
However for really good products ($5000 SDI network transmission gizmos) a lot of effort is put into the design so it doesn't have interfacing problems like lowcost products. Because they deal with serious users, they cannot afford to have crappy customer service. It all comes down to you get what you pay for. Another example are lowcost ADS-B receivers, lots of listings and websites that say how easy it is to get one of these $20 devices to watch the airplanes fly around. One company sells such receivers with a mention, "Why spend hours and hours on lowcost receivers that never really work?" Of course their product is a bit pricey for the hobbyist (and also requires monthly subscription).
I admit I lack knowledge of all this, comments from forums, FB, etc. seems to be those outside UK say it is dumb decision, those in UK say it is a smart decision.
A friend from UK posted this:
"Congratulations to my Brexit pals in the UK. A decision that came down to a number of factors, economy, immigration and The Big One -- the gulf between the Haves and the "Have Nots". Brexit will hopefully be a tsunami of political and social change that benefits the US. Because right now its politics as usual backed by a monied "screw everyone else" attitude."
Unfortunately for them, they're trying to put the genie back in the bottle.
But what they can do is make it more difficult for people like me who use youtube to watch vintage concert and TV show clips of footage some random fan found someplace and decide to share it (or me posting something interesting I dug up in my VHS tapes collection). The artist may no longer be phenomenally famous and hasn't done concerts in decades but there are many longtime fans that would be thrilled to see a rare clip of a performance i.e San Remo in 1960s. Hey, the big boys are not going to provide that footage from what they have in the vaults, isn't worth their time. May as well burn it as pretty much all those performances that was filmed is considered permanently locked away. It's the little guy who happen to come across a VHS cassette that his grandparents left behind, and miraculously the video is still viewable. This little guy shouldn't be crushed to share a video of same performance the big boys will never release from the vault.
Another gripe I have is futzing with computer dongles (why the hell it's so hard to do?), I sometimes wonder perhaps all this anti-piracy measures make it difficult to simply use newer technologies. At least I can still moan and bitch on the forums.
Not sure how this fits into this discussion but I was thinking about a satire Mad Magazine had of the movie Camelot. This story is called Can-A-Lot about a canning company, its CEO was Arthur, president emeritus was Melvin. Artists drew characters like those in the movie, re-wrote lyrics to fit this story of the canning company (Camelot I believe it was called) that takes place in modern times. Of course Arthur's adversary was the union leader (Lancelot I think). Then to deal with this, Arthur replaced all the workers with robots (drawn typical mechanical men with lightbulb noses). Eventually pushed to robots to work longer hours and they begin breaking down. One of Arthur's board members suggested it's cheaper to simply replace instead of repair a broken robot. Arthur: "This is the best idea I have!" His board member, "your idea?" Arthur, "glad you like it."
Later in story the overworked robots revolt and burn down the factory, Arthur is left with nothing like in the movie.
Exactly. Even though there are others like nitehawk214 figured since they have high speed internet then everyone else does. I hate it when people look at me like I have a mental disability because some webpages and video I cannot view at home because the internet service is too slow.
this sounds for FB subscribers will have to watch videos of what meals their friends had.
Quick! Before they make jammers illegal. Oh wait, they already are. Anyway, this reminds me of story some years ago about jammers where someone read of earlier story, went to ebay and purchase one and he mentioned, "Now my wife and I can have dinner at our favorite restaurant in peace."
to know if I don't eat something in the morning, I will be very distracted until later for lunch time.
One thing to note is ***never*** eat melons along with other foods. If you do eat melons, have them alone then wait for at least 30 minutes before something else. A chart showing food combinations pointed this out, before I saw that my stomach never felt that great after eating melons along with other stuff especially at hotel breakfast buffets.
you mean 640mph autta be enuf?
I think what really doomed SST is these types of aircraft don't scale up like subsonic transports. There are much higher skin temperatures, requires a lot more power and guzzles lots more fuel (I heard expression that Concorde and SR71 were flying gas tanks), difficult to upgrade to longer duration (later 737s go much further than when it first flew), and doesn't really get you there any quicker (need to get to airport hours before flight anyway).
Of course not because your parents had you vaccinated!!!
I sure wish I can just watch one camera footage uninterrupted from start to finish instead of constantly jumping from one camera to another, jumping ahead (ok I get it, they have to fit it all in a 3 minute youtube vid). Even NASA does this with virtually all the footage they post but occasionally you can find the raw footage and watch it in entirety. Yes, it takes longer but let me piss away my time please.
Ah yes, we all debate technologies used in this movie with lots of diatribes like in the SpaceX vs. SLS food fight. Here are my favorites:
1. Spacecraft with superluminal speeds over interstellar distances engage in close range combat like 19th century battleships.
2. High power laser or particle beams with a hit/miss ratio just like 20th century bullets from guns.
3. Nobody has to deal with life support systems (i.e. replacing CO2 scrubbers or rig up something like Apollo 13 crew had to do).
4. Food? It seems people only need to eat during plot revealing meetings.
5. Water? Nah, drink booze at a bar where people make plans or get into fights.
6. The top bad guy always wears a cape.
Disclaimer: I only SW movie I saw in a movie theater was the original back in 1977. I saw part of the first two sequels on TV. I have not watched any of the others.
I chose this one because I saw a cartoon of Leonardo da Vinci in his lab with a TV set, holding the power plug he says to his assistant, "Now I have to invent the electric receptacle, the antenna, and God knows what else."
Media gives Trump free air time because gas bags bring higher viewership.