I thought the DECwriter II was 5x7 dot matrix with a cloth ribbon. The TI SilentWriter was thermal paper (and I still have one in the garage with 4 cases of paper. I'm sick, get off my lawn!) Now let me get back to my Son of Cheap Video project.
I had my first "legal" drink at the Fremont Tav, back in the day when it had a big sign on the top, pointing at the bridge that said: "Welcome to Fremont. Born to Boogie." But we're talking about 1980 there'bouts. I was living in the Lake Union Apts above, what was then, the Ace Hardware (I think the Dubliner is there now.) One SMALL room with the bathroom down the hall. $150/month rent. That was back when a kid could support himself working as a busboy at Costa's. It sure isn't like that anymore. I didn't need a car or bike, could walk to work and friends. It's sad that world is gone for kids today.
I did read about an irrigation authority that was suing a farmer because he installed too efficient of a rain water catching system on his land. They said that the rain water should be flowing to the irrigation system or the water table and the farmer should then get his allocation from the authority. This was in central Washington IIRC. In central WA, all politics are water.
Be glad that you're not paying what I was back in 1998 for pipe. The best connection I had was for about $500/Mb/s measured at 95/5. And I was the largest consumer in Seattle at the time (7 peers using up to 1Gb/s.)
There is an easier way to take out a trunking system that doesn't require physical intervention. You can get the parts to do it for about $100 on ebay. This is why my local tribal police chief decided not to go with the county trunking system but stick with conventional analog, and support the local hams.
Yep, and working with the Tribal OEM to install a D-Star repeater and an EOC radio room. I'm proud of our Tribal police chief; he needed to upgrade the PD radios from VHF simplex system and refused to go with the county 800MHz trunking system (for all the right reasons.) He's going with analog UHF (narrowband) with our own repeaters on generator back-up. He's also VERY supportive of the local ham club (tribalhams.net) and is giving us free space on one of his towers. The tribes have also given the ham club a grant so that we all have D-Star radios (and no, I'm not a tribal member.)
Good article Bruce, I'll be sharing it with my emergency manager which I'll see tomorrow morning for at a FEMA regional working group on emcomm.
Your article really hit home for me because I use to work at the Westin Building in Seattle (major telco hotel) and saw for many years just how fragile the system really is. Getting diverse feeds is hard when everything eventually ends up in the same building. I know if that building took a hit Alaska would have a hard time getting any traffic.
I tried a trick I found on AE7Q.com with the ATAS-120 screwdriver (ground mounted with wire radials) and thought it wasn't working. Then the last contest weekend came and I had over 30 contacts on 20 and 40 from Japan to NY (I'm in WA State.) Then after the contest... all bands seem dead. I can only guess that the no one is working the bands much because they're so lame... unless there are contest points to be made:)
Now playing with D-Star to keep active. Fun stuff!
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I thought the DECwriter II was 5x7 dot matrix with a cloth ribbon. The TI SilentWriter was thermal paper (and I still have one in the garage with 4 cases of paper. I'm sick, get off my lawn!) Now let me get back to my Son of Cheap Video project.
I had my first "legal" drink at the Fremont Tav, back in the day when it had a big sign on the top, pointing at the bridge that said: "Welcome to Fremont. Born to Boogie." But we're talking about 1980 there'bouts. I was living in the Lake Union Apts above, what was then, the Ace Hardware (I think the Dubliner is there now.) One SMALL room with the bathroom down the hall. $150/month rent. That was back when a kid could support himself working as a busboy at Costa's. It sure isn't like that anymore. I didn't need a car or bike, could walk to work and friends. It's sad that world is gone for kids today.
I did read about an irrigation authority that was suing a farmer because he installed too efficient of a rain water catching system on his land. They said that the rain water should be flowing to the irrigation system or the water table and the farmer should then get his allocation from the authority. This was in central Washington IIRC. In central WA, all politics are water.
Fremont lost that claim when the Fremont Tavern turned into a yuppie bar. Wait, ALL of Fremont turned into a yuppie bar!
Be glad that you're not paying what I was back in 1998 for pipe. The best connection I had was for about $500/Mb/s measured at 95/5. And I was the largest consumer in Seattle at the time (7 peers using up to 1Gb/s.)
and that nice UHF allocation the military has.
There is an easier way to take out a trunking system that doesn't require physical intervention. You can get the parts to do it for about $100 on ebay. This is why my local tribal police chief decided not to go with the county trunking system but stick with conventional analog, and support the local hams.
The first I heard about it was on the NANOG list. But I guess that would figure.
Yep, and working with the Tribal OEM to install a D-Star repeater and an EOC radio room. I'm proud of our Tribal police chief; he needed to upgrade the PD radios from VHF simplex system and refused to go with the county 800MHz trunking system (for all the right reasons.) He's going with analog UHF (narrowband) with our own repeaters on generator back-up. He's also VERY supportive of the local ham club (tribalhams.net) and is giving us free space on one of his towers. The tribes have also given the ham club a grant so that we all have D-Star radios (and no, I'm not a tribal member.)
Good article Bruce, I'll be sharing it with my emergency manager which I'll see tomorrow morning for at a FEMA regional working group on emcomm.
Your article really hit home for me because I use to work at the Westin Building in Seattle (major telco hotel) and saw for many years just how fragile the system really is. Getting diverse feeds is hard when everything eventually ends up in the same building. I know if that building took a hit Alaska would have a hard time getting any traffic.
73 de w7com
I'm guessing the 20 minutes includes warm up time for the soldering iron. I didn't even have to crack the case on my Yaesu VX-5 to "MARS" it.
Sounds like the ride we took for two days on the Empire Builder from Seattle to Chicago. The food was outstanding and included in the ticket.
Looks like some guys on Elliot Bay have mod points today.
V, you're on slashdot, not eham. I come here to get away from that! :)
73 de w7com
Try running during a contest, take 5 tries to get your callsign across, and THEN get your 59 report!
"No. W7COM mike mike mexico!" "Charlie Oscar Nancy?" "No mike mexico mary" "ok, W7CON you're 59 and number 1443." "Arrrgh!"
I tried a trick I found on AE7Q.com with the ATAS-120 screwdriver (ground mounted with wire radials) and thought it wasn't working. Then the last contest weekend came and I had over 30 contacts on 20 and 40 from Japan to NY (I'm in WA State.) Then after the contest... all bands seem dead. I can only guess that the no one is working the bands much because they're so lame... unless there are contest points to be made :)
Now playing with D-Star to keep active. Fun stuff!
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or did he mean that you couldn't install IE at all?
God will fuck you up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFzlX9X3E18
How do I get past the posts that contradict TFA?
http://www.calea.org/
Read this: http://mtc.sri.com/Conficker/addendumC/ and then you will see all you have to do is try to access one of the banned domains.
This 'blade' computing, is that VME bus or S-100?
milw0rm.com Mothers I'd Like to Worm?
Just like I'm sure that Boeing paid for the Boeing Freeway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_State_Route_526
I'm guessing that there isn't much of the original 1541 left in there :)
Bitching about the bridge is just as silly as trying to get MicroSoft to pay for the new SR520 bridge!