*nods* but I should at least be able to see it enter the Google, MS, etc. blob
and then exit.
--
Mike Hammett
- Original Message -
From: "Ken Hohhof"
To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group"
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2025 10:35:20 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mailing List Rate Limiting or Ha
"Rural side roads in IL are a bitch because the government doesn't own the
underlying asset, so you still have to get an easement from every landowner
along the way."
This seems like insanity to me... how does anything ever get ran
underground? Back 10 years ago when I thought ROW permitting was h
All NCOs so far. I worked with one former lt Col once. He was not terribly
bright and he was a bit of a liar.
From: AF On Behalf Of Adam Moffett
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2025 8:16 AM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Aviation
My experience with vets is that they are comfortab
Can you meet the FCC minimums today, at the same distances as you could
when the minimums came in? Nope. You would have to get closer to the
customer., that means buildout. and when the minimum is inevitably 500 mb,
youll buildout again, and when its a gig, youll build out again,
getting closer and
Ever see "Person of Interest?" You'll never be able to hide again.
On 3/24/25 14:26, Steve Jones wrote:
It is strange days seeing Chuck troll facebook. The place is a toxic
cesspool of corruption. I only ever got on it cause i lost all the
pics of my sons first year when i formatted a hard dri
Satellite has a planned obsolescence so will maintain cyclical growth, but
will hit the same hurdles. Still a better placement of fed money than fixed
wireless, but not the same as fiber
On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM Ken Hohhof wrote:
> OK, I see.
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> BTW, what would you say about satellit
Every square inch is owned by somebody. From what I understand, the townships
(and, in some cases, the county) have an easement for a road, but that doesn't
include anyone else for any other use. Electric, phone, and natural gas all
have their own easements.
The state owns their land. Cities, t
Your DOT comment reminded me.yeah we work in some areas where they require
an open trench.
There's also at least one area we work in where the city puts a 5 year
moratorium on any cutting of pavement after the road has been resurfaced. You
could dig to restore service, but you can't put in
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
These days with big company email, I assume headers are no longer useful.
Once it hits Google or Microsoft or whatever, it disappears into the void.
Even identifying the original sender is usually impossible. You were lucky
in this case to get so much information.
It's like reverse DNS. Half the
An anecdote from a military person on Quora said that some armies train people
to prioritize shooting officers in an attempt to break down command and
control. He added that it's a bad idea to do that to an American force because
if you kill the officers then the NCO's are in charge now, and al
Yep, I worked at a company once that hired a bunch of people just out of
military service. They were referred to as the “hut hut hut” people.
But echoing your comment about former NCOs, during the first year or so of the
war between Ukraine and Russia, there was a lot more press coverage (or
It's not generally done around here. There's a common belief that frost heave
will be an issue. I think you've disagreed with that, but I don't know enough
to argue either side of it.
From: AF on behalf of Chuck McCown
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2025 5:45 PM
T
Sprint ran 400G waves on their network 12 years ago. Sprint has some of the
oldest fiber out there.
--
Mike Hammett
- Original Message -
From: "Steve Jones"
To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group"
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2025 7:51:40 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD
fiber installed in
"Same with aerial, I assume there is a limit to how many cables can be attached
to the poles."
Yeahand no.
Short version: You can keep putting in taller poles, but there are practical
limits. If they're longer than 55ft the transportation of the pole to the site
becomes a problem and you
With 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, March 24, 2025 8:52:56 AM
S
If it's a rate limit because I sent so many messages at once, I understand. I
sent about 10 - 15 messages to the list over 1.5 hours. I mean, it's not a LOT
lot, but it's more than normal.
--
Mike Hammett
- Original Message -
From: "Chuck"
To: af@af.afmug.com
Cc: af@af.afmug.com
Sen
I'm curious if anyone else has an answer on this? I imagine it comes down to
whether the locality considers an enclosure real property and whether they have
a minimum square footage, but I'm curious about anecdotal stuff as well.
I now understand we'll pay the tangible/personal property tax in
https://maps.app.goo.gl/DT6mcZJdjBKQBdxp9
--
Mike Hammett
- Original Message -
From: "Steve Jones"
To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group"
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2025 7:54:15 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD
if I hop on 23 and stop at the flashing light I'm in hammettland?
On Sun
That is a fantastic quote. I hope Einstein really said it.
From: AF on behalf of Ken Hohhof
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2025 11:28 PM
To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD
I don’t understand why fiber is just some electronics but wireles
I would call that just being a good company. Stakeholder capitalism as
defined in the book also tries to make climate change people and water
conservation people and social justice people all happy. The pursuit of
global ESG ratings drove many companies toward low profits.
They are mostly
Just from memory (dangerous), I though it was a minimum of 100/20 and had to be
“reliable”, meaning fiber, cable or licensed FWA. And I didn’t think satellite
qualified as “reliable”.
Each state could have their own definitions though. The BEAD money was
allocated to states based on FCC/NT
OK, I see.
BTW, what would you say about satellite?
From: AF On Behalf Of Steve Jones
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2025 3:11 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD
Can you meet the FCC minimums today, at the same distances as you could when
the minimums came in?
Depends, on industry pages and groups I behave myself. But on crazy friends
pages, I give them the full dose now and then.
From: AF On Behalf Of Steve Jones
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2025 3:27 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Dopamine
It is strange days
It is strange days seeing Chuck troll facebook. The place is a toxic
cesspool of corruption. I only ever got on it cause i lost all the pics of
my sons first year when i formatted a hard drive. I was just going to use
it to archive photos. I was a good person in those days. Facebook made me
the irr
I assume they have to rent it on a cost recovery formula just like pole rental.
Verizon NY got sick of midnight man-holing so now all non-emergency access
requires a Verizon watchman present. We have to schedule that guy a couple of
weeks in advance, and we get invoiced $155/hour for him to sta
A lot of those metrics are also misleading. It's also typically a left person
picking metrics they care about as opposed to metrics a right person would care
about... and vice versa. Both groups have a hard time with telling the other
group of people that they know better about how the other gro
But also, then it would have to be fair and not punitive.
- Original Message -
From: "Bill Prince"
To: af@af.afmug.com
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2025 1:45:11 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Aviation
They attack "DEI" because no one knows what it's about. If they had called it
"fairness i
People haven't figured out how to dampen the pendulum. They'd rather attach a
rocket to it.
- Original Message -
From: "Ken Hohhof"
To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group"
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2025 1:07:49 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Aviation
People have explained the anti-DEI
"pay prevailing wage anytime you're doing work in a ROW where a permit was
required"
Surely someone has sued over that...
- Original Message -
From: "Adam Moffett"
To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group"
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2025 1:57:01 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD
$15-20/s
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