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Message: 14
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 08:40:03 -0700
From: "J. Gary Bender, WS5N" <ws5n_at_hughes.net>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Re: Windows US Daylight Time Change Screwup Looming
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Message: 15
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 11:42:33 -0500
From: "Peter Maxfield" <pmaxfield_at_charter.net>
Subject: [aprssig] solar powered digi/wx
Hello everybody!
Does anyone have any pictures of a solar powered digi or WX station they
would like to share? We (the royal "we") are looking into trying to
develop something similar and would really appreciate tidbits from anyone
who is willing to share some wisdom!
Thanx in advance!
Best regards,
Peter Maxfield, W1LBR-7
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Message: 16
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 11:51:28 -0500
From: "Charles E. LaMonte" <charlien3vuo_at_gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Re: Windows US Daylight Time Change Screwup Looming
Salutations and Greetings to all,
First I want to thank Stephen for alerting us to the referenced problem. I
am very much a novice in computer science. I believed, or at least I think
I did, I downloaded the patch for the referenced problem. How do I know for
sure that I have downloaded, for a dial up, the patch correctly and
completely ?
Thank you again for letting us know about the referenced problem.
Charlie, n3vuo
On 2/5/07, J. Gary Bender, WS5N <ws5n_at_hughes.net> wrote:
>
>Thank you Rich. I worked on Y2K in the 1998-2000 period for two large city
>governments in the mid-west and mountain west. We found defilbrillators
>that would have reverted to calibration mode during their first use in 2000
>-- nasty for the first patient. Hundreds of buildings that would have put
>the doors and elevators into weekend mode on the wrong days, stuff like
>that. I found the problem with Y2K was that *many* managers used it as an
>excuse to spend lots of bucks for goodies they wanted that were not Y2K
>problems. I saw a lot of new computers where a software patch was all they
>needed for the old ones, for example.
>--
>J. Gary Bender, WS5N
>Fence Lake, New Mexico USA
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Charles E. LaMonte,n3vuo
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Message: 17
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:04:38 -0900
From: Mullen <ad4bl_at_mosquitonet.com>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] solar powered digi/wx
We run our repeater system on solar/wind power. If you go to
http://www.kl7kc.com and click on the repeater link, it brings up the
various sites and then click on additional pictures for visuals of the
equipment and sites. All our sites have to deal with severe conditions
of cold and wind.
Linda
--
Linda <><
AD4BL SEC ALASKA
ad4bl_at_arrl.net
He came to pay a debt He didn't owe
Because we owed a debt we couldn't pay
Life is the childhood of eternity.
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Message: 18
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 11:24:17 -0600
From: "Andrzej AB9FX" <ab9fx_at_aprs.pl>
Subject: Re: [aprssig] solar powered digi/wx
Peter,
You can find some pictures of SR3DGT at http://www.aprs.pl/gontyniec.htm
There are:
- KPC3+ 9.1
- TH-22
- Ultimeter 2000
- solar panel
Temporary wx data is unavailable. We did some tests with wx converter with
input of Complete Record data from Ultimeter2000 and output of APRS wx
standard format. Project is still under work.
73!
Andy AB9FX, SP3LYR
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Message: 19
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 09:33:23 -0800
From: Mark Fellhauer <sparkfel_at_qwest.net>
Subject: [aprssig] Re: Windows US Daylight Time Change Screwup Looming
At 03:40 AM 2/5/2007, Rich Mulvey wrote:
>Not to rain on your parade too much, but the reason why Y2K turned out
>to be a non-event was because the experts were right, and millions of
>man-hours were expended on fixing the problems. If they hadn't, I can
>guarantee with personal knowledge that a few million customers of some
>rather large financial institutions would have had some extraordinarily
>unpleasant surprises in the weeks and months coming up to
>Y2K. Afterwards, they would *really* have had some bad days, unless they
>had large sums of money hidden in their mattresses.
>
>It always astounds me how many people point to Y2K as an example of
>"experts blowing things out of proportion because nothing happened" -
>when the reason that nothing significant happened was because a huge
>legitimate problem was recognized, identified, and fixed in time. I
>can't speak to the effect on other industries, but I can guarantee that
>people would have noticed when all of their retirement plan money and
>other savings magically disappeared.
There's a difference between pointing out a serious flaw and taking
corrective steps to fix the problem, than what I saw, which was experts
predicitng mass calamity DESPITE the best efforts of man...
In the weeks prior to Y2K people were still being told not to fly or ride
elevators, they were told that even if the 911 system worked, fire trucks
and ambulances would not start due to computer controlled engines, etc.
Companies were cashing in and millions of Americans were stockpiling food,
hoarding guns and ammo, and hiding in basements and bunkers.
You know, I'm one of those guys who was involved in those millions of man
hours of corrective work. I spent the latter half of the 1990's doing Y2K
compliance work for the insurance, medical, and legal industries at night
(many insurance office software was MS DOS based right up to 1999), and
during the day I worked for many aerospace and electronics companies.
On New Year's Eve, I was manning the phones at a call center of a major
computer manufacturer with 600 other people (one of half dozen call
centers). I got sent home early. We all did. At 6:00 AM on New Year's
Day I was back. Call volumes were extremely light despite predictions to
the contrary. Every person that called in <<thought>> his problem was Y2K
related, even if was for a printer not plugged into the wall outlet...
I got one Y2K related call before I was again sent home early. "Megaphone"
a Win95 based fax and voicemail software application ceased functioning due
to Y2K issues.
Mark
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