yet another duct tape ninja (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} vxo) wrote,@ 2008-08-20 01:09:00 |
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I'm so tempted to steal some of the abandoned equipment down at our transmitter site. XD
I went down there today to try getting the 147.000, APRS digi, and 442.350 back on the air, and to perform some maintenance on the WRGP gear.
The WRGP stuff was in good shape, though the room's floor is mysteriously littered with dead centipedes...?
CENTIPEDES?
IN MY TRANSMIITTER ROOM?
It's more likely than you think!
I wasn't able to get into the breaker panel to reset power to the ham repeaters up at 1400', so... meh. We've got other repeaters for now. The NBC6 guys will probably have to give us ye olde reset. Hopefully the gear up at 1400' isn't all soaked or anything... it pretty much got two solid days of High Impact washdown. We'd be lucky to find that it hasn't turned into a car* up there or something.
But yeah... there are FM and TV transmitters just littering the halls there. One of the FMs is completely fried, one of them is all tube and probably is not, and... well, it just goes on and on. WTF?
I have no clue what I'd do with a 15kW FM, though. At least for now, WRGP's not going to be able to get licensed to use that much power.
Oh, you all will be pleased to know that I bitchslapped a Harris Quest. It decided not to turn back on immediately after I hit its ON button, so I gave it a nice karate chop to the FACE. That brought it promptly back on line. XD
Meanwhile... I think I've pretty much gotten the media/color management issues worked out with the solid ink printer we've been playing with here. Fun stuff.
I'm looking to get back to making silly comics.. and when I do... I'll have the ability to make nice prints with that. The color kicks ASS compared to inkjet... it comes out like a magazine page, but not all smudge-o-matic glossy or flimsy! Woot. I'll do some aging tests to see if I'm going to need to find a way to UV coat prints from that (read: leave one taped to a tree for a few days).
Someone actually e-mailed me last night asking whether Blue Neon is still in the works. The answer is, yes, it is. Yay.
* Severe Mindfuck Warning: Watch that whole movie, and your brain will shit bricks.
I went down there today to try getting the 147.000, APRS digi, and 442.350 back on the air, and to perform some maintenance on the WRGP gear.
The WRGP stuff was in good shape, though the room's floor is mysteriously littered with dead centipedes...?
CENTIPEDES?
IN MY TRANSMIITTER ROOM?
It's more likely than you think!
I wasn't able to get into the breaker panel to reset power to the ham repeaters up at 1400', so... meh. We've got other repeaters for now. The NBC6 guys will probably have to give us ye olde reset. Hopefully the gear up at 1400' isn't all soaked or anything... it pretty much got two solid days of High Impact washdown. We'd be lucky to find that it hasn't turned into a car* up there or something.
But yeah... there are FM and TV transmitters just littering the halls there. One of the FMs is completely fried, one of them is all tube and probably is not, and... well, it just goes on and on. WTF?
I have no clue what I'd do with a 15kW FM, though. At least for now, WRGP's not going to be able to get licensed to use that much power.
Oh, you all will be pleased to know that I bitchslapped a Harris Quest. It decided not to turn back on immediately after I hit its ON button, so I gave it a nice karate chop to the FACE. That brought it promptly back on line. XD
Meanwhile... I think I've pretty much gotten the media/color management issues worked out with the solid ink printer we've been playing with here. Fun stuff.
I'm looking to get back to making silly comics.. and when I do... I'll have the ability to make nice prints with that. The color kicks ASS compared to inkjet... it comes out like a magazine page, but not all smudge-o-matic glossy or flimsy! Woot. I'll do some aging tests to see if I'm going to need to find a way to UV coat prints from that (read: leave one taped to a tree for a few days).
Someone actually e-mailed me last night asking whether Blue Neon is still in the works. The answer is, yes, it is. Yay.
* Severe Mindfuck Warning: Watch that whole movie, and your brain will shit bricks.
