I got the email below & thought maybe one of you guys would
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Carton <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:19 PM Subject: Fwd: TV Mission control To: Jans Carton <[email protected]>, [email protected] Cc: charles hird <[email protected]> Jans and Scott, Would you take a moment to read this email about the Marshall Missouri Vulture Cam that is soon to go live, and give me your thoughts on the subject. The actual expected return date for the vultures is sometime in march, but it sounds like Bob wants to be up and running as soon as March 1st. The subject I need your input on is the question Bob raises about a "barf meter". His idea is to add visual interest around the expected occasions when mama or papa vulture brings in a dinner of rotted roadkill (or the like) to regurgitate for the hatched babies. He says he will be satisfied with a convincing gauge that we can scan the camera to at opportune moments, and I think I can probably make a convincing one. But I wonder if there isn't an actual functional odor meter somewhere out there. If anyone knows, Do you have any knowledge about that, or ideas how to make a functional one? If so, we could serve as a good testing lab and great recognition for anyone who could come up with a genuine marketable "odor meter"! I wonder whether one of those detectors for natural gas leaks would detect the odor producing gasses of rotted meat? In any case, it has to be visual and silent (not a ringing or buzzing alarm) because we certainly do not want something that would disturb the birds. Do you have any knowledge or suggestions about this? John ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bob Anderson <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:37 PM Subject: TV Mission control To: Chuck Hird <[email protected]> Cc: John Carton <[email protected]>, Amy Ries <[email protected]> Greetings Chuck and John, Hope all is well and the cameras are still up and running. I wanted to know if you could compare the quality of your cameras to the Decorah Eagles Ustream cam during the day and, night with quality of your TV cam? Could you do some comparisons and let me know? We are getting close needing set up the DSL service. RRP will pay for the DSL service from the end of February until the young vultures fly the coop (barn). We might need to call on Mike jr. the electrician to switch the feed to the computer instead of the TV turning the TV into a computer monitor. Also, I do think it would be great fun to have a “Barf Meter” or “Oder Meter” mounted to one of the sidewall of the barn loft so you can pan the camera over to it after a feeding then return to pointing the camera at the young vultures. Even if we can’t change the arrow/dial and just leave it pointed to a number 8 or 9 on with 1 to 10 dial. Maybe use a large round thermometer and put numbers over the degree digits. I would think the pointer would change as the heat builds up in the barn loft. No has to know that the movement of the pointer is heat related over odor related. I’ll look for one on this end. What do you think? If we can come up with something it has to be done in the next few weeks. The time for the first ever Turkey Vulture cam is quickly approaching. Again, I hope all is well. Bob Anderson -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
