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@paden-cash Was this a step-by-step / Strowger office? Those were cool and fascinating in a loud, clunky way.
@mathteacher Yes indeed; somewhat similarly to "gigantic." I fought that battle for many years...
@james-fleming At that time, you would have been the object of my envy! ?ÿ
@jim-frame Jim, when you've reloaded firmware before, were you using the self-extracing .exe files from UNAVCO's website? Were you using an ancient co...
@jim-frame Ah yes, I now remember reading about the "Remote Monitor Active" syndrome. Does the firmware need to be reinstalled after that?
@jim-frame One of my 4000SSi receivers gave the "lithium battery dead" warning momentarily upon being turned on this past week for the first time sinc...
@jitterboogie Wow, so around 1990; that was pretty late for a slide rule! In 1981 or 1982, which was already rather late, the older professor for my A...
Oh, that is sad.
Is its 5-meter max range a problem?
@bill93 Interesting; I never saw that popup even the first time I visited that page.
@geeoddmike Very odd; with Safari on a MacBook Pro running MacOS 10.15.7, I'm getting near-instant loading of those pages. That's with a ton of window...
FYI, loading those pages took less than 1 second each for me.
Police radio wouldn't be operating at 300 MHz, which falls in the 225 MHz ?? 400 MHz military aircraft band. In the US, police land mobile radios hav...
@andy-bruner Wow, interesting cast.
It seems like two issues are being confused: maintenance of the electrical equipment, and maintenance of the environment on which or within which the ...
@geeoddmike I bet there's a good, clear sky view from the top of that mast. ????
@jim-frame In Massachusetts, mosquito fogging trucks are usually seen annually, and last year we had state-wide aerial spraying.
That's pretty neat. There are also these anti-prescription markers scattered around Manhattan (the writer did muddle the description of prescriptive e...
@andy-bruner People often forget the third of the three criteria for an item to be accepted as a monument: original, undisturbed, and *spray painted.*...