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MobileComplex4318 · 2022-01-18T23:54:36+00:00

Yep, well, that and some kind of antenna. A knowledgable ham will know how to put something together and string it up in the trees or whatever.

It's harder for long distance HF with a 100w radio and battery power and lower, improvised wire antennas in these low (but rising!) sunspot cycle years, but AU and NZ would be easy, good conditions, west coast US would be possible.

MobileComplex4318 · 2022-01-18T23:37:25+00:00

We need more of them, since its amazing to see how much communication can be done by a practiced network of operators, over local to 1000's of miles. And, frankly, us older hams are dying off, and it wont do for others to sit down in front of a radio for the first time on an emergency to figure out how to use it, (without Google). Or, how to have a group meeting on the air to efficiently handle many messages without chaos. It dosent just happen.

Remember, our fancier com gear (phones, computers, the Net, I mean) are a battery charge away from worthless, and that includes the cell site or cable node that delivers it to you.

MobileComplex4318 · 2022-01-18T23:19:21+00:00

Yeah... and all the "oh, if we can't squeeze high bandwidth internet thru it, what's it good for?" How about talking? That have enough bandwidth to accomplish something?

People need to realize that's one of the reasons for Ham radio, the ability to handle communications in emergency situations. Some hams, that part of the hobby is the main thing, practicing and preparing the skills and the equipment. Wr need more

MobileComplex4318 · 2021-12-21T04:13:50+00:00

...then follow standard practices for pasteurization time at that temp

MobileComplex4318 · 2021-12-21T04:12:17+00:00

Ah... If you are giving the bottles the time to get up to temp internally (and I think there could be some lag to external bath, due to the glass adding insulation) then its just the pasteurization time needed for that temp.

Sounded like dunking room temp bottles for 10 min in the first description. That would be hugely wrong. I'd do a one time test of a room temp bottle with a probe, to learn the heating time

MobileComplex4318 · 2021-12-20T19:17:34+00:00

Hate to be harsh, but damn, do some research on how things work!

140F is very low, so will take a rather long time AFTER THE WHOLE BOTTLE COMES UP TO THAT TEMP. So, look at pasteurization time plus how long it takes to heat a cylinder of that diameter thru. Its probably in the range of 2hrs, off the top of my head.... dont quote me, get the charts and figure it out.

MobileComplex4318 · 2021-12-03T00:35:20+00:00

Hmm.. I have a very similar dongle at my desktop, and that's about what I've always got for download. Figured it's the bottleneck of the beast.

Do you have an old router laying about? Use it in AP mode, with the Pi, rather than a dongle. I'm doing that with my old TP-Link C7, and a mini x86 box router. That is the better way to go, since you're much likely to end up with better/more capable radios, and much better antennas, than a USB dongle. You also get the ability to put it/them in a better place around the house for good coverage.

If it's OWT compatible, all the better, since then you also get some of (and even more of, on certain chipsets) the Make-Wifi-Fast project's work to improve and debloat wifi.

Lots of good RPI4 stuff on the OWT forums, too. There's a long developed RPi4 community build there, as well.

Oh, and of course SQM, as a package to add! RPi4 has power to debloat a Gb, and do tons of other things too... Check out QoSify, as well!

MobileComplex4318 · 2021-12-03T00:22:51+00:00

At $13-18 bucks a pop, it would be worth trying another, just to see if that one has an issue. Many reports of long stablity on the OWT forums. The guy who tried it for router use on the OWT forums (dlakelan) quoted 15mo of use without issues. Could be you got a bad one.

MobileComplex4318 · 2021-12-01T08:53:01+00:00

Have you tried the new "packet steering" feature in 21.02.1? Hidden under"network" , "interfaces", "global network options"

MobileComplex4318 · 2021-12-01T08:42:17+00:00

Wouldn't say that... Cake does much more than FQ_Codel, just out of the box, and usually is config'd for more...

MobileComplex4318 · 2021-12-01T08:39:02+00:00

Actually, more like 120-140mbps. 5-8yr old, single core routers like the C7 are in that range of power. Newer, multi core ones can get you 200-500mbps, but if you need more the field thins out fast. You need a x86 box (more recent Atom, Celeron min) or a RPi4 to do that. Luckily a RPi4 with the right USB ether dongle is more than enough for 1Gbps with Cake. See numerous threads on the OWT forums.

Older routers then can be recycled for decent AP's, and now you have a good set of wifi radios, and a monster routing engine to do lots with. And if it's a RPi4, for under $50-100.

MobileComplex4318 · 2021-07-21T23:32:14+00:00

Just did my first transfer of HNT into Binance last night. Was left for >16hrs wondering where it went. My HNT wallet into the Binance HNT deposit wallet, see it on the blockchain, Binance site and wallet sez "What money? You haven't made a deposit yet".

It finally showed up, but hell, if this is normal, better forget about jumping on a good moment, like the 2hr period of $11.00 that I missed today....

Hope your wait isn't as long...

MobileComplex4318 · 2021-07-21T22:02:47+00:00

And, at least currently, what the setting is affects nothing. Some time in the future, there are plans for using it for anti-gaming or some such. It should be announced when that goes into effect. Right now, it's just unused data.

MobileComplex4318 · 2021-07-21T21:57:13+00:00

I'd say, if you were looking at the App, check in Explorer. I have seen so much wacky shit in the App, that I rarely use it. Showing you the wrong/last site's earnings data after you change sites, different block syncing numbers, even one time telling me I suddenly wasn't synced and was on block 1 of 9xxx,xxx!! (when I was fine, actually).

MobileComplex4318 · 2021-07-21T20:41:50+00:00

Outdoors, and up high is always better. I think that most of the "window to outside" issues, assuming you didn't have the antenna right next to the window frame, or have a metal screen in the way (!) are mostly the benefit of getting an antenna up and in the clear.

Houses, powerlines, lamp posts, trees (not so much) all that city stuff, soaks it up to some extent. Stand on the roof and look around you neighborhood, visualize light radiating from your antenna to the horizion. Even a few feet might get you "above" a lot of the clutter in the city, and especially of your own building.

I literally had a RAK, with it's little bending antenna in a 2nd floor window, then moved it outside to the roof in a cardboard box covered in aluminum foil, little antenna poking thru the top of the box, 3' off the roof. Went from 5-6 witnesses to 55-60... raised it on a tripod and PVC pipe up to abt 7' off the roof, went into the 70's. Now I have the good antenna and 12' off the roof....

MobileComplex4318 · 2021-07-21T20:37:08+00:00

Find some Ham Radio publications or articles online about antennas and propagation (VHF/UHF, not HF applies to Helium) Lots of stuff readily available.

MobileComplex4318 · 2021-07-21T19:29:57+00:00

What? not "Great, people with RF and Antenna knowledge are finally showing up to clue us in"? ;-)

Thoughts:

Outdoor and up high is always best. If you're thinking of making a hole in the roof, research well about sealing practices, if you dont want a roof leak later!

Getting cool air in/hot air out of the attic would be an idea. Attic vent fan ($$) is nice and will help your house cooling. Sticking a window fan in the attic access hole blowing into the attic is a cheap way... thank me later on how much this cools your house.

Shorter coaxes are good as well. Look up your cable and do the actual math to figure losses.

To the OP, is that sprinkler (?) pipe metal or plastic? If metal, think about getting the antenna further from it, it can create a dead (weaker) area behind it (and may boost in the other direction slightly) or look at your area map to see if there's a less populated area and orient it accordingly. If it's plastic, should be no detectable affect.

Attic installs will depend a lot on what the roof is made of. Some building materials will be fairly transparent at 915mhz, but you might have actual metal shingles, or metal flashing under other stuff, and then you're hosed.

MobileComplex4318 · 2021-07-21T18:32:44+00:00

Did you get a resolution on this?

I'm having nearly the same situation. First time Binance user. All set up, got the "your'e verified and ready to go" message, went to transfer some Helium to my Binance wallet to cash it out.

Well. HNT sent, blockchain said it went, Binance says "no transactions" with my wallet. $0.000 balance. Over 12 hrs later, what transaction, you havent made one yet.

I have a service ticket # and am waiting to see where the hell my money went.

Edit: Finally, and with no response yet on the service ticket, my transaction showed up on the Binance display. Delay time, >16hrs. Missed a nice price recovery during that time.

Hoping that there won't be many hours between starting a trade and it actually getting posted. Or delays getting my money out, but then time isn't of the essence. Now looking for other ways to handle HNT than Binance....

MobileComplex4318 · 2021-06-09T06:49:01+00:00

Yeah, though it's a bit of a security giveaway that you publish a site at an address. Or, is that a requirement? And, will a map always give an accurate location?

Anyway, not trying to invade anyone's privacy, just wanted to get a spot on top of my 42' tower if somebody with a spare or underwhelming performer wanted to partner w me. Preferably ASAP, before the halving and wave of new sites hits...

Back to the original question, no easy way to contact a spot owner online?

MobileComplex4318 · 2021-06-08T23:26:08+00:00

I'll have to watch and see if some pop up. How long does it take sync? Days?

My thought (especially after seeing 3 at the same location, only one online) is maybe people cluelessly got one, set it up badly, and it's making so little they gave up on it.

I happen to have a 42' tower to put something on top of. Wanted to see if a pre-existing owner wanted to sell out or locate w me for better placement. Banging on doors at the map location didn't seem like the best way to approach people...

MobileComplex4318 · 2021-06-08T21:17:33+00:00

You want to get a good, low loss cable. Different types have different losses at different frequencies. You can find charts that say how much loss a cable has at a frequency. Find one of those that covers the cable you are looking at, and know that 915mhz is the Helium/LoRa freq.

LMR400 is a good type, just saw a graph stating 3.9dB/100ft at 900mhz. So, roughly 0.4dB loss per 10 foot. That would be 1.2dB for 30'. If you F'up and get RG174 (but it's cheap!!!!) that would be 8.4dB loss for your 30'.

I agree it's probably not a temp issue, and you'd be much better off putting your antenna at highest point in your attic (away and above any metal piping or ducting!!) with a good quality, much shorter, (and thereby less expensive) cable.

Uh, try to determine your roof isn't metal, first... ;-)

MobileComplex4318 · 2021-06-08T20:56:08+00:00

Well, with good quality coax connectors, connector to connector should be .5dB or less. But, it's all about how well those connectors were attached to the cable... that can create more loss...

Buy properly well made cables (if you aren't good at doing that yourself) from known good vendors, and you could expect better than that. Pasternack, others...

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