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jaro
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Joined: July 5, 2010 10:11 am
Last seen: February 25, 2025 4:46 pm
Topics: 145 / Replies: 1576
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RE: The Dust Bowl is back

My dad was born on a cotton farm in the Texas panhandle in 1930, the youngest of 10 kids. When I was young, we heard lots of stories about the depress...

2 years ago
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RE: Digging up old problems, Relative vs Absolute APC heights

Antenna calibration is not just the height is what i was referring to. Thats where i was getting confused a bit. It is directional in all bands l1 l2 ...

2 years ago
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RE: Digging up old problems, Relative vs Absolute APC heights

I am speaking of Trimble using relative calibration for some receivers and absolute calibration for other receivers in the same ini file and refusing ...

2 years ago
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RE: Question, Profiling bridge beams, quarter and eighth points

The plans show a quarter point and a mid point but on longer beams, sometimes it is necessary to break that down more. TxDot uses 0.7123 x midpoint de...

3 years ago
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RE: Lightsquared rehash

I didn't know 300Mbps was even possible. I get 1.6Mbps on a good day with DSL and being 3.1 miles out on a system that only goes 3 miles without a re...

3 years ago
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RE: Boy it sure is cold up in Minnesota

@bill93 That cold spell made it to East Texas. 14 days below freezing, ponds froze over. Temp stayed around 20f most of the time. It's still the longe...

3 years ago
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RE: HP 3800A Distance Meter Operating Manual

I used a 3810a one summer. We would stick 3 fingers in front of the lens for short shots. I didn't know anything about an attenuator cap.

3 years ago
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RE: OMG - you're so dumb...

I learned how to drive backwards before I learned how to drive forwards. When I was about 11, the three of us kids and my mother hoed cotton all summe...

3 years ago
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RE: The road taken..............

You have been USED! I am a firm believer that God will put you in the right place at just the right time to use whatever skills you have to do his wo...

3 years ago
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RE: Negative voltage?

@paden-cash So you could compare it to an old 6 volt positive ground car?

3 years ago
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RE: Negative voltage?

@bill93 If I put the red lead on a good ground and the black lead on the red wire (ring) I would have a positive 48 volts DC but ground doesn't have a...

3 years ago
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RE: How do you relax and take your mind away from work?

Get on the tractor and start pushing out pine saplings, yaupon, cherry laurels, or anything else that starts creeping into the pasture/ yard/ road.

3 years ago
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RE: On the philosophy of chainsaws

My philosophy? A chainsaw will last a long time if you NEVER LOAN IT OUT! I have only bought one gas powered chainsaw. It's a McCullough ProMac 610 b...

4 years ago
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RE: Poison Oak

I just wet the area where the rash is and sprinkle salt on it. Gently rub it in until it makes a thin layer of paste and let it dry. I have been doing...

4 years ago
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RE: Android phone as data collector?

I'm betting that software would be awesome with one of the new Cat phones

4 years ago
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