A Dead Horse?

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:54:31 +0000, Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:

>The Ghost of General Lee <ghost@general.lee> wrote in
>news:gcq1i35asrb3ka26b7rn8dqpgquh58l17u@4ax.com :
>
>> Did you forget about I-85, I-20, and I-77?
>>
>>
>
>Oops...sorry....Guilty-as-charged. I hope Sprint has towers close
>enough together to service them, too. US 17 and 17A, the main N-S
>routes down the coast in and out of Charlietowne have little
>islands of coverage with vast dead zones from Myrtle Beach to
>Savannah....might as well be dead. There's nothing on Sprint
>between Summerville and Walterboro down 17A now that the VZW/Alltel
>in-market roaming is kaput.

I have friends who are on Nextel/Sprint. I never hear them
complaining about dead spots around here, except on SC 11 near
Chesnee, where just about every carrier, including Alltel and VZW, has
problems. And one friend works for LKQ/A&R Auto Parts delivering
engines, transmissions, fenders, etc. to some quite rural repair
shops. He's never out of touch with the office.

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:52:21 +0000, Larry wrote:


>
> Something is amiss. I got dumped 3 times at breakfast, 400 yards
> from an Alltel tower that was burning up the receiver with -70dbm
> of pilot signal. I could see the tower from Waffle House!
>
>
> Larry

Thanks.

Very interesting.

Load sharing......

That might be why mine dumps me the most from late afternoon through 10 or
11 PM.

SCHOOL IS OUT!!!!

And all of those kids are swapping music, I will bet.

I did not get to make any calls today. It did not turn out to be the laid
back day I expected.

Tuesday will be my next opportunity.

CSSJR

--
If we do not wish to lose our freedom, we must learn to tolerate our
neighbor's right to freedom even though he might express that freedom
in a manner we consider to be eccentric.

You might be in the null.........

Ernest
Radio Operator

"Claude S. Sutton" <claudesutton@suttonmachine.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2007.10.26.23.11.30.792489@suttonmachine. com...
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:52:21 +0000, Larry wrote:
>
>
>>
>> Something is amiss. I got dumped 3 times at breakfast, 400 yards
>> from an Alltel tower that was burning up the receiver with -70dbm
>> of pilot signal. I could see the tower from Waffle House!
>>
>>
>> Larry
>
> Thanks.
>
> Very interesting.
>
> Load sharing......
>
> That might be why mine dumps me the most from late afternoon through 10 or
> 11 PM.
>
> SCHOOL IS OUT!!!!
>
> And all of those kids are swapping music, I will bet.
>
> I did not get to make any calls today. It did not turn out to be the laid
> back day I expected.
>
> Tuesday will be my next opportunity.
>
> CSSJR
>
> --
> If we do not wish to lose our freedom, we must learn to tolerate our
> neighbor's right to freedom even though he might express that freedom
> in a manner we consider to be eccentric.
>

"Claude S. Sutton" <claudesutton@suttonmachine.com> wrote in
news:pan.2007.10.26.23.11.30.792489@suttonmachine. com:

> I did not get to make any calls today. It did not turn out to
be the
> laid back day I expected.
>
>

It was a laid back day in the church organ repair business. It's
been that way for some time, this year. Glad I'm on the verge of
retirement at 62.... I also do work on yacht
electrics/electronics, a job that sort of found me through
friends with yachts at the local Charleston marinas. I've just
finished an electronic suite on a Jeanneau 40' sloop that's going
to the charter business in Tortola next month. She's ready to
go, now. I decided not to crew her down, this time. I've been
crew for decades. After you've seen 20 tropical islands full of
drunks, you've about seen 'em all...(c;

I looked at your webpage. I assume you service the machines in
the furniture manufacturing industry around High Point. Very
interesting family-owned business. Always nice to meet someone
in charge of their lives. I own my little business, too. It'll
continue at a more leisurely pace after I retire. I'd never be
able to NOT work at something.

Larry
--
I must admit it IS always fun to have just an awful busy week pop
up a couple of weeks later when the PO box is stuffed with
checks...(c;

Just like woodworking machines, music electronics breaks and
wears out....
Ain't it just grand?!

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:43:50 +0000, Larry wrote:


> I looked at your webpage. I assume you service the machines in
> the furniture manufacturing industry around High Point. Very
> interesting family-owned business. Always nice to meet someone
> in charge of their lives. I own my little business, too. It'll
> continue at a more leisurely pace after I retire. I'd never be
> able to NOT work at something.
>
> Larry


I have been primarily a dealer or distributor (my competitors' preferred
description, I prefer "peddler"), specializing in furniture manufacturing
equipment.

My customer list was once the blue blood list of the industry; Lane,
Bassett, Henredon, Drexel, many others too numerous to mention.....the top
manufacturers.

They have all gone to China. So many plants have been closed that
machinery is sitting practically on the street corners, selling for
nothing.

I rebuild and give a new guarantee. All on my web site was purchased with
that in mind, so it all needs repair. With really good stuff selling as is
for less than only a few of the parts required to rebuild the same machine
would cost, there is no buyer for rebuilt equipment.

However, I do repair equipment for local customers and we do most of it on
a "while you wait" basis for the plant that has a major interruption in
production due to the break down.

So I am semi-retired not by choice.

I have a neighbor that has done very well putting sound systems in the
local churches. I would think that would be more profitable and with a
better future than repairing or selling organs.

Since you know how to do that,.........

I would go nuts on a boat....unless I did it in the Kennedy fashion; just
me and two lovely ladies.

I am sure this is boring to others on this group, so no more on this topic.

CSSJR

--
If we do not wish to lose our freedom, we must learn to tolerate our
neighbor's right to freedom even though he might express that freedom
in a manner we consider to be eccentric.

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:52:21 +0000, Larry wrote:

>
> Something is amiss. I got dumped 3 times at breakfast, 400 yards
> from an Alltel tower that was burning up the receiver with -70dbm
> of pilot signal. I could see the tower from Waffle House!
>
>
> Larry

My broadband connection was pretty good Friday.

Saturday, it was very good and I was beginning to think that things were
going to be OK.

But this evening has been unbelievable.

I have not been able to stay connected for more than two or three minutes
from about 5:00 PM until now, 10:40 PM.

As a matter of fact, I just got dropped and have a red light on my router.
That connection did not last over 3 minutes.

I am going to call Alltel tomorrow and ask why.

Five hours and forty minutes of 3 minutes connected and 5 to 10 minutes
trying to get connected, repeated for 5:50, is not acceptable.


CSSJR

--
If we do not wish to lose our freedom, we must learn to tolerate our
neighbor's right to freedom even though he might express that freedom
in a manner we consider to be eccentric.

"Claude S. Sutton" <claudesutton@suttonmachine.com> wrote in
news:pan.2007.10.27.04.31.10.498932@suttonmachine. com:

> I have a neighbor that has done very well putting sound systems
in the
> local churches. I would think that would be more profitable
and with a
> better future than repairing or selling organs.
>
>

That would be true if there weren't so many competitors trying to
split up the available work down here. The other problem is I'm
over 60 and shudder at the thought of still crawling through the
rat and spider infested church attics, 80' above the auditorium
pews on a flimsy board because the cheap SOBs didn't buy an attic
floor during construction. Hell, many churches don't even have
an ACCESS HOLE to get up there! I'm just too old and fragile to
climb around like that....a younger man's job. I don't have
enough work to justify the employee expenses eating up what
little profit it seems to net. Churches want everything on the
cheap, not the best.

So, when the organ work slows, I wander down the docks and use my
referrals to find another yacht that needs its AC and DC
electrical systems straightened out or its electronics suite
updated/installed. Yachties are a pleasure to work for as they
want the job done BEST, and aren't afraid to pay for it. Failing
equipment at sea in heavy weather is NOT appreciated or expected.

One of the yacht fringe benefits is some sailing around the
harbor, with the occasional trip to FL or Bahamas or the
Caribbean islands. Last year I met some nice old people on a
42' Grand Banks diesel trawler taking a break from their trek
from New England to their daughter's dock in St Augustine.
"We're too tired to continue.", he hinted, having been at the
helm on the the treacherous ICW for too many hours. I offered to
help drive her down if they'd give me a place on deck to sleep a
few hours and feed me some sandwiches a couple times a day. I
ended up helmsman for the rest of the trip while they enjoyed
themselves actually seeing the beautiful Southern ICW, not
staring into the abyss looking for the next bouy. We anchored
out in some little off-the-channel creek when I got tired and had
a grand time the rest of the trip. I was supposed to go back to
St Augustine in the spring to drive it to Rhode Island for the
summer, but they decided they were too old to motorboat any more
and sold the boat in FL, flying home and called me to
apologize...(c;

That's my kind of "retirement"...(c;

I'll quit off topic, too..cya..maybe on email.


Larry
--
You can tell there's extremely
intelligent life in the universe
because they have never called Earth.

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:03:27 +0000, Larry wrote:

> "Claude S. Sutton" <claudesutton@suttonmachine.com> wrote in
> news:pan.2007.10.25.01.11.25.235047@suttonmachine. com:

>
> I don't believe it exists. I like standing in front of someone
> looking down at their desk. I'm harder to ignore when I'm within
> punching range...(c;
>
> Larry



I called this morning, but all I could get is one of those that listens
and then tells you how sorry she is that you are having a problem.

If I get a call from a tech person, I will post the results here.

She did promise to see that a tech person would work on the problem.

I don't have much hope.

CSSJR

--
If we do not wish to lose our freedom, we must learn to tolerate our
neighbor's right to freedom even though he might express that freedom
in a manner we consider to be eccentric.

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:43:39 -0400, "Claude S. Sutton"
<claudesutton@suttonmachine.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:03:27 +0000, Larry wrote:
>
>> "Claude S. Sutton" <claudesutton@suttonmachine.com> wrote in
>> news:pan.2007.10.25.01.11.25.235047@suttonmachine. com:
>
>>
>> I don't believe it exists. I like standing in front of someone
>> looking down at their desk. I'm harder to ignore when I'm within
>> punching range...(c;
>>
>> Larry
>
>
>
>I called this morning, but all I could get is one of those that listens
>and then tells you how sorry she is that you are having a problem.
>
>If I get a call from a tech person, I will post the results here.
>
>She did promise to see that a tech person would work on the problem.
>
>I don't have much hope.
>
>CSSJR

You know what? This could be the result of DOZENS of things and
they'll never be able to pin it down to one thing.

You do realize you are dealing with RADIO here, not WIRES, and the
huge effect of the atmosphere and obstructions?

"Claude S. Sutton" <claudesutton@suttonmachine.com> wrote in
news:pan.2007.10.30.03.14.24.7046@suttonmachine.co m:

> Now you have to ask how they can do that to my machine. If
they can do
> that, what else can they do?
>
>

Thanks for the extra info, Claude. I'm sure Sprint would shed
roamers first. I have the test page open on my Alltel E815 and
can see the network is Alltel (10) and Charleston's system number
(156) on the screen. I can also read the signal (-82 dbm) and
error rate (under 1.2%) when the data is streaming. I'm on
Alltel for sure.

As to your question, every SELLular device has backdoor access
into it that can fully control it over its control channel. They
can push a new PRL, like you saw, push a new firmware upgrade,
give and take away any service it provides, and, I'm sure,
monitor any data going in or out of it if they so desire. With
"Homeland Security" having nullified so many of your
Constitutional freedoms, government bureaucrats, too, can just
monitor any conversation they find interesting without those
pesky court orders and judges signatures. Snooping is a way of
life for us, now.

I use Skype VoIP a lot here. It has 128-bit encryption on its
data and I'm not sure how good "they", whoever "they" are, can
monitor its signal. It would certainly inconvenience "them"....
(c; I suppose some of their deviants would find my calls to my
girlfriend most interesting. She does...(c; Skype-to-Skype
calls would require them to first find the data stream on the net
on a full variety of internet ports Skype supports, then they'd
have to decrypt the current encryption code. By that time, I'd
like to think my call was over. Even a Cray supercomputer takes
a long time to decrypt 128-bits. If they'll do all that to hear
what nasty things she's telling me she wants me to try, more
power to 'em...(c;


Larry
--
You can tell there's extremely
intelligent life in the universe
because they have never called Earth.