I drew a complete blank in the finite state machine final. I know exactly what
you mean. I knew the stuff but it I think my FAT got corrupted or something.
We are all pretty cocky 21 year olds I think.
I was totally all about microcontrollers until I did my first PLC. Then it
was: “why did I ever want to do it the hard way”?
From: Mark Radabaugh
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2020 9:22 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] RV Park Fiber
See, I only cared about the digital stuff. Though power, motors, etc. were
pretty cool as well. Grades were good in those classes.
Senior project the advisor dinged me for building a system for a plant out of a
microcontroller instead of using a PLC like he suggested. But I want to do
Microcontrollers. Yep, first job was building industrial control systems with
PLC’s. I’m guessing I was a completely cocky bastard as a 21 year old.
Perhaps someday I’ll grow out of that. Or not.
Heh, calculus. My last all night study session managed to turn a perfectly
good B+ in differential equations into a D. Walked in to that exam and drew a
complete blank. Should have just slept, probably would have aced it.
Mark
On Jun 12, 2020, at 10:46 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
Those were the ONLY classes I cared about. Got A’s in all things antenna and
RF.
Got A’s in most of the linear stuff.
Got the B’s in the digital crap that doesn’t matter to anyone.... (those
guys are called bit freaks)
Got a C- in integral calculus.
From: Mark Radabaugh
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2020 8:42 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] RV Park Fiber
Hey, I was proud of that D in Microwave and Antenna systems :-) D’s get
degrees. I’m never going to use this shit. Take the EIT / PE exam? Why
the hell would I ever work as a consulting engineer.
Of course my first job is a consulting engineer, and I deal with microwaves
and antenna systems every day.
Ah, to know then what I know now. Just don’t make me do all this shit over
again.
Mark
On Jun 12, 2020, at 10:38 AM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote:
Makes you wonder if a wire and an alligator clip could turn the aluminum
box into an antenna.
Yeah, fields & waves was not my best course in college. And I have a fear
of heights. So of course I end up running a WISP. But turning a Faraday cage
into an antenna is probably not my best idea.
From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Mark Radabaugh
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2020 9:07 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] RV Park Fiber
I like your solution actually. Should work out well. Hardest part with
trailers is getting through the aluminum box. Putting AP’s close will help a
lot.
Mark
On Jun 12, 2020, at 9:54 AM, Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote:
Wow this thread blew up while I was sleeping.
I'm proposing both a wireless and fiber solution. I'm sure they'll pick
WiFi because it'll be cheaper, but I wanted to put all the cards on the table.
As far as why I'm bothering to propose fiber:
1) If there's fiber to the power pedestal, and each ped (or every other
ped) has it's own little router with it's own SSID and key, then there's a
security benefit vs having everybody in the park be able to sniff traffic from
each other's devices.
2) We could track any illegal/bad/weird activity to a specific RV site
(or at least to the proximity of one).
3) The changing positions and occupancy of RV sites won't affect
anybody's WiFi because their WiFi will be right next to them no matter what.
Neither will the growth of trees hurt them.
4) No capacity issue in the park (and the feed TO the park can of course
always be upgraded).
5) Infinitely upgrade-able.
6) We have all the equipment and personnel and we want to use them.
There's an indefinite amount of work for them expanding and improving our own
network, but if they do it for the campground we can bill them out.
-Adam
On 6/11/2020 5:48 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
Why are you doing fiber?
We have a 300 unit RV park where everyone is required to stream over
the Internet, no satellite dishes are allowed.
It works absolutely fine and everything is back hauled wirelessly to
the sectors that cover several RV campers.
On Jun 11, 2020, at 5:03 PM, Adam Moffett mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com
wrote:
Yeah I'm assuming WiFi would be everyone's first choice, and that's
part of why I'm thinking WiFi from the pedestal. I just thought it would be
nice to have the option to plug in a cable.
I did find a comms enclosure that bolts onto the back side of the RV
power ped. http://www.rvparksupplies.com/p/ACCESSBOXPHONECABLE/.
Waiting for them to send me more details, but I think that might give
me a place for the ONT, and incidentally there appear to be two keystone jacks
in it. My two reasons for suggesting this approach are that each RV gets their
own WiFi instead of sharing it with everybody around them, and if there was
ever a law enforcement issue we could track the usage to a particular site
rather than just "somewhere in the park".
On 6/11/2020 4:54 PM, Robert Andrews wrote:
As an "RVer" I will say that we are all set up for WiFi connections
and doing a hardwire would be something that we _never_ plan for. Don't even
carry and ethernet cable...
On 06/11/2020 01:30 PM, Adam Moffett wrote:
If you run fiber to RV sites, what do you put in at the site?
I'm imagining I'd end with a WiFi enabled ONT in a box, on a post
next to their power and water hookups. I'd want the campers to be able to plug
Ethernet in at the box if they have the wherewithal to do so. And if they
don't then they have their own private WiFi right outside their RV.
....of course I could get little Hoffman boxes and put this
together, but I'm betting someone must have made a product for this already.
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