Re: [AFMUG] RAKE vs OFDM for multipath

RAKE is a new term for me. I don't know anything about it. My experience with OFDM is that how well it works scales with power consumption of the device, which in turn is dependent on its signal processing capability. An 802.11 device does whatever the commodity silicon does. An LTE base stat

Re: [AFMUG] Question for old phone guys - Why 145P tags?

les. They probably have kept the standard and not allowed newer labels mainly because you can still read them even when you get large stacks of bundled cables. Also they are not likely to get pulled off. On 6/30/2025 2:42 PM, Adam Moffett wrote: I think that jives with my theory. We're using the

Re: [AFMUG] How long should a splice take?

Some people are faster or slower, but I agree with 45 minutes to get prepped. It does depend on the type of cable and type of case. A 12F drop going into a Coyote DTC could be prepped in 15 minutes. An OSP cable into a FOSC-A case is more like the 45 minutes. Actual splices ought to average a

Re: [AFMUG] OT Political

I'm sure he's not as sharp as he was when he was 35, but I doubt he's as far gone as Biden. I think his persona is tied to how he wants the listener to perceive him. Kind, bombastic, reasonable, etc. Who's asking, and what do I want them to think? Or put more bluntly: like all politicians he's

Re: [AFMUG] Question for old phone guys - Why 145P tags?

ommerce Drive Lake Point, Utah 84074 801-250-9503 Office www.microtrench-blades.com<http://www.microtrench-blades.com/> www.mccowntech.com<http://www.mccowntech.com/> www.terabitnetworks.com From: AF On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Monday, June 30, 2025 12:00 PM To: AnimalFarm

[AFMUG] Question for old phone guys - Why 145P tags?

How long have telcos been using these 145P tags, and what's the origin story? [cid:85469313-759d-41dd-b8de-58d536611039] I see them called out in some specs. The manufacturers' pitch is that it's "non-metal" and "fiber-based" to make it safe around electrical installations. I see the installer

Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik on -48VDC

riginal Message ----- From: "Adam Moffett" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Monday, June 23, 2025 11:58:07 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik on -48VDC They certainly didn't make this too easy. From: AF on behalf of Mike Hammett Sent: Monday, June 23, 2025

Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik on -48VDC

AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik on -48VDC That 48vdc power supply doesn't work on at least the 2004...I don't know about the other CCR. It does on the 1009 (which was my first suggestion, but keep in mind that's an older TILE router) On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM Adam Moffett

Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik on -48VDC

That 48vdc power supply doesn't work on at least the 2004...I don't know about the other CCR. It does on the 1009 (which was my first suggestion, but keep in mind that's an older TILE router) On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM Adam Moffett mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com>> wrot

Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik on -48VDC

importantly it means "I use a DC power input and there are no rectifiers in this model". On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM Adam Moffett mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com>> wrote: Are there are any Mikrotik models that definitely work with positive ground? I know I can use an isolated converter, b

Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik on -48VDC

take -48vdc. Many of the CCR series can accept that PSU. On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM Adam Moffett mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com>> wrote: Are there are any Mikrotik models that definitely work with positive ground? I know I can use an isolated converter, but it would make me happier if I

[AFMUG] Mikrotik on -48VDC

Are there are any Mikrotik models that definitely work with positive ground? I know I can use an isolated converter, but it would make me happier if I don't need one. -Adam -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] What to do with professional Gamer

If the labor to support this person is greater than their monthly payment then you might have to disinvite him. Tell him that you can't find an issue, but obviously the network is not meeting his needs and he should cable instead. -Adam From: AF on behalf of M

Re: [AFMUG] is 12-24 an oddball screw size?

In my bygone days of drafting, the most common American sizes I saw on drawings were 10-32 and 1/4-20. I don't recall if I ever saw a 12-24 called out, but I remember noticing that everybody used 10-32 and 1/4-20. Although it's common for us in equipment racks, it might truly be "odd" for the

Re: [AFMUG] Building Automation

addressed, which i think your right, AI will never ave real intuitiveness to address On Fri, Jun 6, 2025 at 5:20 AM Adam Moffett mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com>> wrote: This is a common misconception about our AI LLM’s. They don’t understand anything, they’re fundamentally just pattern matchin

Re: [AFMUG] Building Automation

This is a common misconception about our AI LLM’s. They don’t understand anything, they’re fundamentally just pattern matching. If you ask an AI to write a program, it can do it only if you’re asking it about something which has published solutions available that it can crib from. If you were

Re: [AFMUG] SSR control circuit over voltage

oltage Why are they unhappy? Because it keeps breaking? Or because it uses 5G? From: AF On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2025 5:42 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] SSR control circuit over voltage The router is Peplink BR Mini 5G. I have no i

Re: [AFMUG] SSR control circuit over voltage

Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] SSR control circuit over voltage Im curious about the cellular solution I have municipal traffic cams that I can see finding a cellular solution for that wouldnt generate high usage bills or deprioritization for 24x7 streams On Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM Adam M

Re: [AFMUG] SSR control circuit over voltage

..@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2025 7:59 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> Subject: [AFMUG] SSR control circuit over voltage I was looking at pictures of someone else’s enclosure (a camera company). They ha

Re: [AFMUG] SSR control circuit over voltage

components specs were inadequate. Like a manufacturer does a die shrink on a logic chip and it gets faster and now there’s a race condition. Or a different manufacturer with an equivalent part gets substituted and now 48VDC is too much. From: AF On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Thursday, June

[AFMUG] SSR control circuit over voltage

I was looking at pictures of someone else’s enclosure (a camera company). They have a router powered through a NO solid state relay and they’re keeping the coil circuit energized continuously. The specs on the relay say the control voltage is 10-30VDC, but these folks have a 48V power supply.

Re: [AFMUG] Tarana power cable with inductor

hould deploy it, it just seems like it's against what I've been taught about lightning protection, which is that you want everything to go up to the same potential, and back down again at the same time. I'm no EE though, so was curious what yall thought. On Wed, May 28

Re: [AFMUG] Tarana power cable with inductor

28, 2025 at 7:44 PM Adam Moffett wrote: > By inductor do you mean a ferrite core? > > On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM castarritt wrote: > >> Tarana is telling everyone to switch to a DC power cable for their radios >> that has a big inductor for surge suppression. Is

Re: [AFMUG] Tarana power cable with inductor

By inductor do you mean a ferrite core? On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM castarritt wrote: > Tarana is telling everyone to switch to a DC power cable for their radios > that has a big inductor for surge suppression. Is that really a good idea > though? We use a Transtector DC Defender (SASD bas

Re: [AFMUG] OT Political

Well, I spent too much time on this because it's the sort of thing I obsess over. It has to do with converting between different character sets and different transfer encodings. I haven't looked at the actual text of emails in awhile, so this was entertaining. Using base64 for things that are

[AFMUG] Air Conditioner Monitoring

Does anyone here monitor air conditioners? If so, how do you do it? Up until now, I would find out about an A/C failure by getting temperature alarms from equipment. When I look at the chart of temperature over time it usually looks the A/C fail happened hours (sometimes many hours) before the

Re: [AFMUG] OT Political

I wondered if they were unicode characters, but if so they'd be Chinese. [cid:97846280-496d-44b7-8302-3cfa640ae8bf] Are you a Chinese agent by any chance? From: AF on behalf of Ken Hohhof Sent: Monday, May 26, 2025 11:44 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'

Re: [AFMUG] Scott Adams -Dilbert

Yes, there are exaggerated, alarmist statements here about school lunches and such. It's a side effect of our relying on social media and cable news for information. Social media is literally just rumors and jokes. The content has factuality varying from 0% to 100%, but nobody has enough time

Re: [AFMUG] Scott Adams -Dilbert

If you live long enough your heart will quit. If your heart stays healthy long enough, you're eventually going to get cancer. And yeah, we're better at identifying specific cause of death than we used to be. If someone in 1960 keeled over and had no bullet holes in him, then what cause of dea

Re: [AFMUG] Scott Adams -Dilbert

The thing is they're all different diseases with different causes. The only commonality between cancers is that they're all human cells reproducing more than they're supposed to. From: AF on behalf of Dev Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2025 11:56 AM To: AnimalFarm Mic

Re: [AFMUG] ePMP 6GHz working great!

Remind me how 6ghz worksis the device supposed to talk to the FCC mothership and get permission to use the channel? From: AF on behalf of Dev Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2025 12:20 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: [AFMUG] ePMP 6GHz working grea

Re: [AFMUG] Current state of Powerline Devices

There was a guy pushing BPL for rural areas in NY State in the early 2010's. He got a project funded somewhere, but I think only the one. If it worked well, they would have kept doing it. Apart from that I've only seen it here or there as a one-off. Haven't even thought about it in years. -

Re: [AFMUG] SCE to AUX

re lucky or something. Until we figure out how to protect people from radiation, missions to Mars and beyond just seem too unrealistic. That and the distance problem. We still have not found any dilithium crystals. bp On 5/11/2025 9:31 AM, Adam Moffett wrote: I think we had a lot of big ide

Re: [AFMUG] UPS for Internet equipment

I guess I'm a spammer today: Dongle fixed at 24V

Re: [AFMUG] UPS for Internet equipment

USB to barrel dongle, Fixed at 12V.

Re: [AFMUG] UPS for Internet equipment

That's not a bad idea, and on that note there are USB to barrel connector dongles. Some are fixed voltage, but many have a voltage selector switch. I got one to power a cell phone repeater at a campsite using one of those USB power bricks. I know that may or may not help with PoE depending on wha

Re: [AFMUG] UPS for Internet equipment

n. On 5/2/2025 5:03 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: Used to be there were public utility regulations and FCC, I think regulations that required 8 hour minimum for POTS. From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Friday, May 2, 2025 9:57 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave U

Re: [AFMUG] UPS for Internet equipment

Not a requirement for most purposes, but there are certain things like fire alarms, elevator phones, and other life-safety uses where building code requires that any electronics which the phone line is dependent on have so many hours of backup power….i think 8 hours. When that code was written

Re: [AFMUG] UPS for Internet equipment

Cyberpower sells 12V UPS’s relatively cheap. They have alarm relays. Some of our Nokia CPE have an 8-pin molex power connector, and you can buy a cable or pigtail for it which is specifically for these types of UPS’s. Then in theory our management system would record alarms when the CPE is on

Re: [AFMUG] OT joke Latent heat of fusion

I think it's clear that "Trump Derangement Syndrome" exists, but it works in both directions. Nonsensical actions by the administration are brilliant 4D chess moves. Trump getting out of bed in the morning is fascism. From: AF on behalf of Forrest Christian (Lis

Re: [AFMUG] the customer sieve

Well, that's good news. I honestly hadn't bought eggs in the past month so I hadn't noticed the change. I wonder: Is the change because demand dropped to match supply? Or is March-April the time when chicks mature enough to lay eggs? Sorry, I don't know chickin stuff. __

Re: [AFMUG] Testing

It's quiet because everyone got sent to a prison in El Salvador From: AF on behalf of Jason McKemie Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2025 3:47 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Testing Thanks! I haven't seen anything posted in a while, so I

Re: [AFMUG] Desk VoIP Phones

ay to provision them other than manually configuring them? On 4/1/2025 3:20 PM, Adam Moffett wrote: I wish I could answer this. I deployed quite a few of the SPA5xx phones. Those are straightforward enough, so if there's one with Bluetooth and you find one new enough to have a Cisco badge may

Re: [AFMUG] OT good book

So what's that book's take on Stakeholder capitalism? We had a company called Endicott-Johnson in our area that was the main employer for the whole region. Endicott-Johnson made shoes, and vertically integrated, so they also owned cattle farms, tanneries, and everything else in the supply chai

Re: [AFMUG] 20 Gbps 20 km with lasers

Interesting stuff. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169809507002049 https://www.ece.mcmaster.ca/~hranilovic/woc/resources/local/spie2000b.pdf The short version of what I learned from those articles: You can play with wavelengths to get better penetration through "haze", b

Re: [AFMUG] Been using the wrong patch cables.

Took the words out of my mouth..I was gonna say probably guarantees sufficient wire gauge for full wattage on POE++. From: AF on behalf of Forrest Christian (List Account) Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 9:37 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject:

Re: [AFMUG] Mailing List Rate Limiting or Having Issues?

Are you using O365? I've been seeing issues with Outlook and Sharepoint this morning. According to downdetector.com I'm not the only one. From: AF on behalf of Mike Hammett Sent: Monday, March 24, 2025 11:05 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re:

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

impossible to wrap my head around coming from a state with a very clear and well defined public ROW law. I suppose I am grateful for that! On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM < ch...@go-mtc.com > wrote: OK so frost heave will what? Displace conduits placed 16” below the asphalt, but

Re: [AFMUG] Property Tax

rowave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Property Tax Which always baffles me. In IL, we tax everything, but not that. I can't imagine a worse type of tax to have. - Original Message ----- From: "Adam Moffett" To: af@af.afmug.com Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2025 9:26:55 A

Re: [AFMUG] Desk VoIP Phones

I wish I could answer this. I deployed quite a few of the SPA5xx phones. Those are straightforward enough, so if there's one with Bluetooth and you find one new enough to have a Cisco badge maybe you can appease that person. I did have one proper Cisco that we played with, and at the time I re

Re: [AFMUG] "our GPUs are melting"

Figuratively I hope From: AF on behalf of Ken Hohhof Sent: Friday, March 28, 2025 3:37 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: [AFMUG] "our GPUs are melting" https://x.com/sama/status/1905296867145154688?s=46 -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http:

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

:29 PM Adam Moffett mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com>> wrote: The BEAD director who quit was not complaining of rule changes that would make Starlink count as already providing broadband. He was complaining of proposed rule changes that would make Starlink eligible for funding. https://arstechn

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

don't get money if the locations are serviceable. If anything this is a good thing for Wisps because it is status-quo... unless you really wanted govt money I guess. On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM Adam Moffett mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com>> wrote: NY State subsidized satellite instal

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

"We should also be careful about assuming that broadband speeds will continue to increase just because the graph says so." [Extrapolating] From: AF on behalf of Ken Hohhof Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2025 11:18 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

is a short term bandaid On Wed, Mar 26, 2025, 11:15 AM Adam Moffett < dmmoff...@gmail.com > wrote: Ok. I don't think we're actually very far apart then. If they are going to use BEAD funding for satellite only for CPE installs, then would you find that acceptable? I

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

ng ago when all you could get was 5MB hubs and they were expensive and didn't work all that well. On 3/21/25 08:40, Steve Jones wrote: they should not allow fixed wireless, they never should have allowed technology with a short shelf life On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM Adam Moffett mai

Re: [AFMUG] Property Tax

nal property tax on the assets. So, cell tower is an asset so in Texas, I should say a few counties we are in we get tax bill for it. Tushar On Mar 18, 2025, at 1:39 PM, Adam Moffett wrote:  I'm seeing two cell phone towers on land owned by a fire department. The parcel info shows zero

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

ubject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD Why am I thinking Skynet? From: AF On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 11:36 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD When they did this in the past, they just gave the satellite guys a waiver on the rules. Yeah they alre

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

est shelf life built into the plant lifespan On Tue, Mar 25, 2025, 7:48 AM Adam Moffett mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com>> wrote: Steve, If you're saying BEAD should help Starlink buy more/newer/better satellites then I could at least see a rational argument for that, but those satellites

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

e end of equipment life, and will require a new handout. terrestrial FW has the shortest shelf life built into the plant lifespan On Tue, Mar 25, 2025, 7:48 AM Adam Moffett mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com>> wrote: Steve, If you're saying BEAD should help Starlink buy more/newer/better satelli

Re: [AFMUG] OT Aviation

He was joking about DEI. That's what tongue in cheek means. It's an old phrase, and honestly I don't know the context for why it means that. -Adam From: AF on behalf of Darin Steffl Sent: Friday, March 21, 2025 1:06 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group S

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

27;s just impossible to wrap my head around coming from a state with a very clear and well defined public ROW law. I suppose I am grateful for that! On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM < ch...@go-mtc.com<mailto:ch...@go-mtc.com> > wrote: OK so frost heave will what? Displace con

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

t? Displace conduits placed 16” below the asphalt, but not the gasline at 24”? From: AF mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com>> On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Monday, March 24, 2025 7:51 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' mailto:af@af.afmug.com>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

clear and well defined public ROW law. I suppose I am grateful for that! On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM < ch...@go-mtc.com > wrote: OK so frost heave will what? Displace conduits placed 16” below the asphalt, but not the gasline at 24”? From: AF < af-boun...@af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

sufficiently served? How does that make any sense? On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM Steve Jones mailto:thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>> wrote: they should not allow fixed wireless, they never should have allowed technology with a short shelf life On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM Adam Moffett

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

1:10 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD OK so frost heave will what? Displace conduits placed 16” below the asphalt, but not the gasline at 24”? From: AF On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Monday, March 24, 2025 7:51 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Gr

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

as cheap as Frontier duct is, I wish I could do it more often, but they've ignored their duct banks, so there is a lot of compromised pipe. -- Mike Hammett - Original Message - From: "Adam Moffett" To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Monday, M

Re: [AFMUG] Property Tax

________ From: Adam Moffett Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2025 12:03 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Property Tax A related question on property tax: Has anyone ever had the tax man hit you for a cabinet on a concrete pad? It has been suggested to me that a cabinet might not

Re: [AFMUG] OT Aviation

inking in the field not encouraged. From: AF On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Monday, March 24, 2025 9:16 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Aviation My experience with vets is that they are comfortable with following established processes and procedures, and they are accustomed to

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

>>wrote: >>But people that currently have fixed wireless of 100x20 are >>sufficiently served? How does that make any sense? >>On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM Steve Jones >>mailto:thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>> >&g

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

ss, they never should have allowed technology with a short shelf life On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM Adam Moffett mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com>> wrote: Well https://bsky.app/profile/craigsilverman.bsky.social/post/3lkiye5n2dk2p https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/s/seq3uoU1L5

Re: [AFMUG] OT Aviation

My experience with vets is that they are comfortable with following established processes and procedures, and they are accustomed to following orders without complaint. That can be very good. If you need someone who needs to improvise or think on their feet make sure you are getting a former N

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

[mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2025 12:57 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD $15-20/splice was normal in the past. Volume went way up, and the contractors are in high demand. An NY specific issue

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

rch 22, 2025 5:45 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD Microtrenching is much faster and cheaper than HDD. From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2025 12:57 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave User

Re: [AFMUG] math is fun?

I never looked into how WPS was supposed to work. I pushed the button once and the Internet broke. I went into the router and reset the WPA key and went about my business. I advised all customers that the WPS button breaks everything and please never touch it. What were you supposed to do with

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

e large count cables. We splice them ourselves so not much cost there. I have never seen $41/burn before. Most of the time when we were burning for money we were happy to get $16. BTW, I hate splicing ribbon. Seems almost impossible to get 12 perfect splices. From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.a

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

sense? >>On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM Steve Jones >>mailto:thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>> >>wrote: >>they should not allow fixed wireless, they never should have >>allowed technology wi

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

render your investment worthless. From: AF On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Friday, March 21, 2025 11:14 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD That's fine, but why fund satellite? It's already built, and people can already buy it. The point is to

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

ubject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD they should not allow fixed wireless, they never should have allowed technology with a short shelf life On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM Adam Moffett mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com>> wrote: Well https://bsky.app/profile/craigsilverman.bsky.social/post/3lki

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

NY State subsidized satellite installs in their broadband program, but I’ll tell you most of the residents I spoke to considered it a cheap cop out. They could already get satellite if that was what they wanted. Covering the installation fee probably helps someone, but most people who could af

Re: [AFMUG] BEAD

Well https://bsky.app/profile/craigsilverman.bsky.social/post/3lkiye5n2dk2p https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/s/seq3uoU1L5 The director of BEAD quit. He says the previous rules interpreted the bill to mean that only FTTH would meet the performance and future-proofing requirements. He i

Re: [AFMUG] OT Ukraine

I like to flip the script. Suppose Arabs in Michigan wanted to split off into a new state with limited political autonomy from the USA, and that we could expect that new state to be allied with, and supported by, Syria and Palestine. Also suppose Joe Biden signed a deal agreeing to make it hap

Re: [AFMUG] Property Tax

A related question on property tax: Has anyone ever had the tax man hit you for a cabinet on a concrete pad? It has been suggested to me that a cabinet might not attract as much attention from an assessor as a building. -Adam From: Adam Moffett Sent

Re: [AFMUG] Twitter by any other name would still smell

to come from the various articles that have been published about her. I think she should be lauded for her work. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 17, 2025, at 10:05 AM, Adam Moffett wrote:  People are generally pretty bad at assessing sources. Even if they're great at it they don't

Re: [AFMUG] Property Tax

rowave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Property Tax They don't own the land. They don't pay property tax on land they don't own. They more than likely have an easement and all but certainly a contract with the muni. On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM Adam Moffett mailto:dmmoff

Re: [AFMUG] AI Image tools

would grease the skids? From: AF On Behalf Of Chuck Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2025 12:50 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Cc: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] AI Image tools Perhaps the company they use for pole testing would share data. May take some social engineering. Sent from my iPhone

[AFMUG] Property Tax

I'm seeing two cell phone towers on land owned by a fire department. The parcel info shows zero tax because obviously the fire department is tax exempt, and they do not show a separate parcel for the cell towers. I know it depends on the local laws, but is it likely the cell phone companies ar

Re: [AFMUG] AI Image tools

Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM Chuck mailto:ch...@go-mtc.com>> wrote: I am sure one could be trained to do it. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 17, 2025, at 2:45 PM, Adam Moffett mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com>> wrote:  Could one of these fancy AI tools take an aerial image and mark all the utilit

Re: [AFMUG] AI Image tools

untry. On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM Adam Moffett mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com>> wrote: I am forbidden to disclose the location or the Elco at this time. Rules. I don't make them. What brought the idea to mind is a neighboring county has public GIS data showing utility pole locat

[AFMUG] AI Image tools

Could one of these fancy AI tools take an aerial image and mark all the utility pole locations? I've got an Elco that won't share GIS data on their poles, but I did find aerial imagery of the whole area with 3" resolution. -Adam -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/l

Re: [AFMUG] Twitter by any other name would still smell

me of those connections on X and that got her a bunch of unwanted attention. The claims about connections and sources seem to come from the various articles that have been published about her. I think she should be lauded for her work. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 17, 2025, at 10:05 AM, Adam Mof

Re: [AFMUG] Twitter by any other name would still smell

220-7826 Cell jbroadw...@cticonnect.com On Mar 16, 2025, at 11:47 AM, Adam Moffett wrote:  I’m more than a little disturbed by the state of things. Apparently Twitter is now an information source? Why? When you hear people say stuff at a cocktail party you don’t believe all of it right? I

[AFMUG] Twitter by any other name would still smell

I’m more than a little disturbed by the state of things. Apparently Twitter is now an information source? Why? When you hear people say stuff at a cocktail party you don’t believe all of it right? It’s just a person talking. It’s not been reviewed, edited, or vetted. Even if it was Albert

Re: [AFMUG] OT USAID

t? -Adam From: AF on behalf of Chuck Sent: Friday, March 14, 2025 5:27 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Cc: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT USAID I am only repeating stuff from the newspaper article. Have not tried to replicate it yet. Looks like a great

Re: [AFMUG] Rodent deterrent

.@logicalwebhost.com>> wrote: How about a stern scolding? We tried that on a bear who sharpened its claws on a utility pole containing some cabling. Also, we moved our cabling. I think it was the scolding that worked really though. On Mar 6, 2025, at 8:47 AM, Adam Moffett mailto:dmmoff...@

Re: [AFMUG] OT FAA

Maybe some local or regional airports are unworthy of fiber. From: AF on behalf of Ken Hohhof Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2025 1:56 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT FAA I don’t know, this promotional video from L3Harris mentions m

Re: [AFMUG] OT FAA

I would also assume wireless was a backup. But I know nothing. From: AF on behalf of Darin Steffl Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2025 1:44 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT FAA Why do you think they're not all fiber? I assume they are

Re: [AFMUG] M-TOW All Gone?

day, March 5, 2025 12:54 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group mailto:af@af.afmug.com>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] M-TOW All Gone? better be we dont use a whole lot, but man when we need them we need them if theyre DC I cant guarantee chucks safety On Wed, Mar 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM Adam Moff

[AFMUG] M-TOW All Gone?

I was looking at mccowntech.com and I don't see the M-TOW hardware. Is it still available? -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] DOGE website (www.doge.gov)

and also suspect we are going to see an increase in terrorism. Some of those 200 year olds SSI checks may have been funding stuff happenning in places that dont exist because the US doesnt do "terrible things" like that. Most of those folks probably have names like Clarence I

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