On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 20:16 -0600, Jon Elson wrote: > On 02/19/2014 04:41 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > > Jon, > > Do you have a people limit? > > > > > No, not really, as long as the weather is good. There are > some tricky > details. The road down to the cabin is quite rough, we do > it in a > Honda van, but it is tricky, and if it rains we park at the > top and > walk down rather than get stuck. So, a car with substantial > ground > clearance is pretty mandatory. Second, we don't usually get > cell service at the cabin, and have to hike up the hill a > bit to use > AT&T roaming, which allows us on a bandwidth-available lowest > priority mode, I think. So, you can make a short call, but > usually > get cut off after a minute or two. No voice mail access, > and most > of our phones don't have text service. So, coordinating people > who want to drop by will take a little logistics, like > knowing when to > hike up the hill to be in phone contact. I suppose one way > to deal > with it would be to have everybody meet in the Montauk Lodge > parking lot and then follow us. Hmmm, actually, there isn't > a people limit, but a parking limit. Although there is a flat > place at the top of the hill where several vehicles could > be parked. > > Anyway, there is this fairly small cabin with two sleeping > porches > where we can drag out bunk beds. If it gets too big, then > we have an overload of bathroom and cooking facilities. > But, we did have 20 people out there once and made it work. > > As for boat races, in the upper Current, it is so small and > shallow, > that canoes sometimes have difficulty passing. > > Before anything serious gets set up, I will have to make sure it > is OK with my friend (I'm pretty sure he will be OK with it) > and that the plumbing situation can be fixed in time. Plenty > of time for that if this is going to happen in late summer. > > Jon > We deal with similar internet access problems on an island in south Puget Sound( ancestral acreage ). Sunny days and standing in the right place we get a decent signal, real overcast or marine layer and the signal goes away. We have considered hanging a high gain Yagi up a tree and hitting the Wi-fi at the local yacht club or even the mainland. We've had reasonable success with a local wi-fi hot spot on a sunny day. I have a picture of 9 or so of the clan sitting in a circle in the sun all working on their i-Pads or i-Phones ;-) ..... and this is what we do on vacation???
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