Gotta have heart....

[mixedgas]

I'm a few days behind on my posts due to lack of net access and a trip to the ER. I'll catch up in the next day or two. Got nice simulated heart attack with chest pain due to a bad medicine. Had to stay for a stress test and enzyme test and am proud to announce I have the undamaged heart of a 24 year old, with enough volume of to cool a medium frame ion laser.. However have decided I'd rather not EVER have a heart attack. NO more Big Macs for me....

Steve

[Jem]

Hi Steve

Pleased to hear you're O.K., that can't have been a nice experience for you (i've been there myself and know the pain!).

Take care and rest up for a while.

Kindest regards

Jem

[buffo]

Yikes! We do without scares like that, Steve. Glad to hear it was just a bad med causing the problem and not something more serious. Pop in when you can dude...

Adam

[mixedgas]

Yikes! We do without scares like that, Steve. Glad to hear it was just a bad med causing the problem and not something more serious. Pop in when you can dude...

At least I got up to 8 months in between hospitalizations this time. Bummer was I was two weeks from a checkup that would have caught it.

Steve

[allthatwhichis]

Glad to hear it was something easy to catch and easy to remedy. I apologize for not being able to assist with the internet connection; I have yet to find a positive aspect to the being "sold" thing at work beyond still being employed.

An ocassional BigMac shouldn't kill ya...

[mophead]

Great to hear it wasn't serious. Maybe you can stretch it out to 18 months this next time .

An ocassional BigMac shouldn't kill ya...

If'n you'd like, I can overnight you some pulled pork shoulder. It has special compounds that give arteries a protective coating.

[mixedgas]

Glad to hear it was something easy to catch and easy to remedy. I apologize for not being able to assist with the internet connection; I have yet to find a positive aspect to the being "sold" thing at work beyond still being employed.

An ocassional BigMac shouldn't kill ya...

ALLTHAT, dont worry, not getting that feed probably saved me major problems by letting me know I had another one. Long, story, I'll reply in a PM.

I have a solution to the internet mess, its a 11 element home made YAGI antenna. Glued to a cheap"G" usb stick on a extension cable. Increasing the TX power doesn't buy you much at RF, but increasing the antenna directivity does. Since I didnt increase the TX power, I'm still legal, up to a point.

I bounce off a large steel building into a node a half mile away. I do my main INET work at work and then in the evening, for text based stuff like PL and email, I wait till late at night and use the "borrowed" node. They know I'm doing it. Its spotty without a diversity system on my end, but it works if I lie on my bed on my side and "actively" hold the antenna up at full reach and steer it for the path modulation caused by passing trucks, snow, localized inversion layers, etc...

While I don't suggest building big yagis unless you have decent RF gear, these work well

http://www.wa5vjb.com/ The 2.4 Ghz WA5VJB yagi on a PCB is like 6$ and worked well for my first try, I wanted more gain and went to a home made one.

The secret is using LOW LOSS hardline coax type UT141 or soft coax type LMR400 between the antenna and the device your modding. Keep the coax short, less then a foot. SMA and other type connectors are hard to do right with crimp tools, so its best to find a surplus piece of UT on ebay and trim it. Even the size of the solder joint at 2.4 ghz matters. .085 hardline will work OK, but keep it under six inches.

NEVER SAY DIE!!!!

Steve

[buffo]

Got a buddy of mine that wanted to increase his bandwidth, so he built a few "can-tennas" to boost his wifi reception. Now he surfs off the free hot spot from the shopping center down the road from him. (He's also got DSL, but it's slow as hell because of Bell-South's crumbling infrastructure in his area.)

ADam

[allthatwhichis]

ALLTHAT, dont worry, not getting that feed probably saved me major problems by letting me know I had another one. Long, story, I'll reply in a PM.

I have a solution to the internet mess, its a 11 element home made YAGI antenna. Glued to a cheap"G" usb stick on a extension cable. Increasing the TX power doesn't buy you much at RF, but increasing the antenna directivity does. Since I didnt increase the TX power, I'm still legal, up to a point.

I bounce off a large steel building into a node a half mile away. I do my main INET work at work and then in the evening, for text based stuff like PL and email, I wait till late at night and use the "borrowed" node. They know I'm doing it. Its spotty without a diversity system on my end, but it works if I lie on my bed on my side and "actively" hold the antenna up at full reach and steer it for the path modulation caused by passing trucks, snow, localized inversion layers, etc...

While I don't suggest building big yagis unless you have decent RF gear, these work well

http://www.wa5vjb.com/ The 2.4 Ghz WA5VJB yagi on a PCB is like 6$ and worked well for my first try, I wanted more gain and went to a home made one.

The secret is using LOW LOSS hardline coax type UT141 or soft coax type LMR400 between the antenna and the device your modding. Keep the coax short, less then a foot. SMA and other type connectors are hard to do right with crimp tools, so its best to find a surplus piece of UT on ebay and trim it. Even the size of the solder joint at 2.4 ghz matters. .085 hardline will work OK, but keep it under six inches.

NEVER SAY DIE!!!!

Steve

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[ImageLight]

Hey Steve,

Glad to hear your OK. I also have a soft spot for a Big Mac or two..

Mark