Re: [AFMUG] Office Wire labeling

2017-12-28 Thread George Skorup
For office/structure wiring, simple electrical wire number markers work fine. The kind you can get in booklets or on a dispenser like this: https://www.zoro.com/3m-wire-marker-tape-wdispenser-preprintd-std-0-9/i/G3472226/ They're cheap enough to put two sets of numbers 3-5 feet apart at the

Re: [AFMUG] Office Wire labeling

2017-12-28 Thread Jeremy
For temporary labeling we use colored electrical tape On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 4:01 PM, Jason Wilson wrote: > This is what I use for my tower sites. http://www.dymo.com/en- > US/dymo-labeling-needs/wire-cable-labeling/wire-cable- > labeling/ind-heat-shrink-tube-3-8-in

Re: [AFMUG] survey results

2017-12-28 Thread Chuck McCown
I don’t recall. I think the 2’ was in the neighborhood of $300. From: Mathew Howard Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2017 4:39 PM To: af Subject: Re: [AFMUG] survey results out of curiosity, what did those beasts sell for? On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 5:25 PM, wrote: That was

Re: [AFMUG] survey results

2017-12-28 Thread Steve Jones
Radiowaves hp series looks like it does, On Dec 28, 2017 4:55 PM, "Mathew Howard" wrote: > I kind of do wish there was a dish on the market that could be put up as > 5ghz and be easily converted to 11ghz on the tower... it could be > especially useful now that there are

Re: [AFMUG] survey results

2017-12-28 Thread Mathew Howard
out of curiosity, what did those beasts sell for? On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 5:25 PM, wrote: > That was one of the stronger selling points. > > *From:* can...@believewireless.net > *Sent:* Thursday, December 28, 2017 4:21 PM > *To:* af@afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] survey

Re: [AFMUG] survey results

2017-12-28 Thread chuck
That was one of the stronger selling points. From: can...@believewireless.net Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2017 4:21 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] survey results There was a company called MTC that offered such a beast But not any more. On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 5:55 PM, Mathew

Re: [AFMUG] survey results

2017-12-28 Thread can...@believewireless.net
There was a company called MTC that offered such a beast But not any more. On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 5:55 PM, Mathew Howard wrote: > I kind of do wish there was a dish on the market that could be put up as > 5ghz and be easily converted to 11ghz on the tower... it could

Re: [AFMUG] Office Wire labeling

2017-12-28 Thread Jason Wilson
This is what I use for my tower sites. http://www.dymo.com/en-US/dymo-labeling-needs/wire-cable-labeling/wire-cable-labeling/ind-heat-shrink-tube-3-8-in http://www.dymo.com/en-US/dymo-labeling-needs/wire-cable-labeling/wire-cable-labeling/rhino-industrial-5200-label-maker It will layout labels

Re: [AFMUG] survey results

2017-12-28 Thread Mathew Howard
I kind of do wish there was a dish on the market that could be put up as 5ghz and be easily converted to 11ghz on the tower... it could be especially useful now that there are cheap 11ghz radios out there. On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 12:35 PM, can...@believewireless.net < p...@believewireless.net>

Re: [AFMUG] OT Year end inventory

2017-12-28 Thread chuck
I have heard tax protesters making long speeches about the guvmnt lacking authority etc etc. How they must barter everything etc etc. I dunno, the speeches don’t seem to keep them out of jail. From: Jaime Solorza Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2017 3:30 PM To: Animal Farm Subject: Re:

Re: [AFMUG] OT Year end inventory

2017-12-28 Thread Jaime Solorza
Start your own tribeChuck Pocasganas... Jaime Solorza On Dec 28, 2017 2:05 PM, wrote: > I fly a flag with fringe so I am a sovereign nation or sumpin like that > No taxing authority for fiat money or sumpin like that > > *From:* Steve Jones > *Sent:* Thursday,

Re: [AFMUG] Mass changes to specific config on 450 network

2017-12-28 Thread Adam Moffett
What George said. No key or Cambium ID. As far as what it will do for you: 1) I've been liking configuration templates. I have a set of settings I've been using on all AP's, so I created a template that sets them all. A template can have variables as well. So I set SSID, device name, and

Re: [AFMUG] Mass changes to specific config on 450 network

2017-12-28 Thread George Skorup
Resending to list. Stupid ass thunderchicken. The ID and onboarding key is for cnMaestro Cloud only. The device agents know when they're talking to an on-prem instance. Just feed them your on-prem URL (including https://) via config file, DHCP option, whatever. Nothing more is needed. On

Re: [AFMUG] OT Year end inventory

2017-12-28 Thread chuck
I fly a flag with fringe so I am a sovereign nation or sumpin like that No taxing authority for fiat money or sumpin like that From: Steve Jones Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2017 2:02 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Year end inventory The trick not to pay taxes list

Re: [AFMUG] Mass changes to specific config on 450 network

2017-12-28 Thread Matt
When running locally are you using an "Cambium ID" and "Onboarding Key"? I just got the thing running on Proxmox and not sure what it will all do for me. We have used scripts and SNMP to keep tabs on things for many years. On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Adam Moffett

Re: [AFMUG] OT Year end inventory

2017-12-28 Thread Steve Jones
The trick not to pay taxes list all your inventory as meth meth is illegal they cant tax it or its a punitive damage and they cant charge you with a crime per the fifth amendment when they show up to seize the met... poof, no meth or so said those arizonians years back with pot On Thu, Dec 28,

Re: [AFMUG] Computer Image backup/restore

2017-12-28 Thread Josh Luthman
Is it a problem at all to boot to Clonezilla? If so there are other options. If you don't mind the machine being down for a bit, this is ideal. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 10:53 PM, Forrest Christian

Re: [AFMUG] OT Year end inventory

2017-12-28 Thread Jaime Solorza
I learned that from CFO who taught at Joske's Executive Training classes where I got an associates in Retail Management and Merchandising back when God was a baby. Jaime Solorza On Dec 28, 2017 12:33 PM, "Lewis Bergman" wrote: > That is slightly illegal, but I like the

Re: [AFMUG] OT Year end inventory

2017-12-28 Thread chuck
No accrual. But the increase in assets on the balance sheet year over year is a taxable income. That assumes retained earnings is present in the inventory. From: Lewis Bergman Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2017 12:32 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Year end inventory That is

Re: [AFMUG] Solar controller as UPS

2017-12-28 Thread Mark Radabaugh
No real reason not to - I did that for many years when I was building my own sites. If you can get a charge controller with an Ethernet interface (or a serial interface and a packetflux interface module) you can see everything you want. You may need additional hardware if you want a LVD.

Re: [AFMUG] OT Year end inventory

2017-12-28 Thread Lewis Bergman
That is slightly illegal, but I like the way you think. It sounds as though Chuck is on a cash basis for taxes. On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 12:35 PM Jaime Solorza wrote: > Take loss or shrinkage at retail and not at cost. > > > Jaime Solorza > > On Dec 28, 2017 11:13 AM,

Re: [AFMUG] Solar controller as UPS

2017-12-28 Thread chuck
No reason at all. Just make sure to jack up the voltage to take care of any volt drop of the solar controller. From: Adam Moffett Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2017 12:28 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] Solar controller as UPS I'm thinking if I simply connect a 24V PSU to the solar

Re: [AFMUG] Solar controller as UPS

2017-12-28 Thread Robert Andrews
You want 28V as input to the controller... On 12/28/2017 11:28 AM, Adam Moffett wrote: I'm thinking if I simply connect a 24V PSU to the solar panel terminals on a Morningstar Sunsaver that I have a DC UPS now. Someone tell me why I shouldn't use a solar controller as a UPS. Is there's a

[AFMUG] Solar controller as UPS

2017-12-28 Thread Adam Moffett
I'm thinking if I simply connect a 24V PSU to the solar panel terminals on a Morningstar Sunsaver that I have a DC UPS now. Someone tell me why I shouldn't use a solar controller as a UPS. Is there's a reason?

Re: [AFMUG] Office Wire labeling

2017-12-28 Thread Jaime Solorza
The markers I use from Home Depot hold up verymost of wiring goes through conduit at well sites Jaime Solorza On Dec 28, 2017 9:31 AM, "Lewis Bergman" wrote: > I could ship you mine but your right, Without an ID toner there is a lot > of running back and forth. >

Re: [AFMUG] OT Year end inventory

2017-12-28 Thread Jaime Solorza
Take loss or shrinkage at retail and not at cost. Jaime Solorza On Dec 28, 2017 11:13 AM, wrote: 324 Individual part numbers 408,062.69 individual parts (some of it is measured like feet, or sticks or sheets) We have a bit of a party. Break it down so everyone has a portion

Re: [AFMUG] survey results

2017-12-28 Thread can...@believewireless.net
I would ask, "Who are your customers?" I buy your products because you sell them and you support our industry. In the past, when you were selling licensed dishes, I would reach out to a coordinator and tell them I would want to use your dish and a certain radio. If I was told I needed to use

Re: [AFMUG] 2018

2017-12-28 Thread chuck
Thanks From: David Coudron Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2017 11:14 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 2018 Just completed. David Coudron david.coud...@advantenon.com | Mobile: 612-991-7474 Advantenon, Inc. i...@advantenon.com | 3500 Vicksburg Lane N, Suite

Re: [AFMUG] survey results

2017-12-28 Thread Robert
In this multiverse, a bunch of pissed off customers who support fair business practices would get a shot at said dishes to say "piss off" to the nasty, tweaked competitor... On 12/28/17 9:49 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: One of you posted the following: Well I was kind of annoyed that we

Re: [AFMUG] 2018

2017-12-28 Thread David Coudron
Just completed. David Coudron david.coud...@advantenon.com | Mobile: 612-991-7474 Advantenon, Inc. [cid:image001.png@01CEE562.60FF8FC0] [cid:image002.png@01CEE562.60FF8FC0]

[AFMUG] OT Year end inventory

2017-12-28 Thread chuck
324 Individual part numbers 408,062.69 individual parts (some of it is measured like feet, or sticks or sheets) We have a bit of a party. Break it down so everyone has a portion of things to count. Got mine done... Part counting scales make quick work of small parts. The goal is to not

[AFMUG] survey results

2017-12-28 Thread chuck
One of you posted the following: Well I was kind of annoyed that we bought some of the big 3ft dishes a few years ago with intent to be able to upgrade to 11ghz and now they are discontinued. I'm curious why you killed that product line. I can always build the feedhorns to convert them. I

Re: [AFMUG] 2018

2017-12-28 Thread Robert
While I do prefer getting a deal on pricing ( why a look at baltic is always a stop ), shipping is just as much a part of the equation, time as much as price. Amazon _Usually_ gets stuff delivered in a day or two with prime. That solves a lot of logistics. If I'm buying bulk, in advance,

Re: [AFMUG] 2018

2017-12-28 Thread can...@believewireless.net
Sometimes MSRP is fine if we can get Prime shipping or an affordable next day option. If we can order an item for MSRP with just a few clicks, it may be as cost effective as calling a distributor, seeing if they have inventory, finding out that McCown will actually be dropping shipping it from the

Re: [AFMUG] 2018

2017-12-28 Thread can...@believewireless.net
Done. On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 10:56 AM, wrote: > https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9SQGH67 > > > Hmmm, what is the difference between a clickable link and non clickable? > > *From:* ch...@wbmfg.com > *Sent:* Thursday, December 28, 2017 8:53 AM > *To:* af@afmug.com > *Subject:*

Re: [AFMUG] 2018

2017-12-28 Thread chuck
Thanks Lewis. I try to drive traffic to the distributors. They give discounts off of MSRP. Not sure this is the best way. Back in the early days I sold direct. Every afternoon we had 100 small boxes going out. I prefer a few very large shipments each week to hundreds each day. But at the

Re: [AFMUG] 2018

2017-12-28 Thread Lewis Bergman
Screwed up. I would buy from Amazon if available. Didn't see that as a choice. On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 10:32 AM Lewis Bergman wrote: > That's funny, I was wondering why I could click that damn thing. > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 9:56 AM wrote: > >>

Re: [AFMUG] 2018

2017-12-28 Thread Lewis Bergman
That's funny, I was wondering why I could click that damn thing. On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 9:56 AM wrote: > https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9SQGH67 > > > Hmmm, what is the difference between a clickable link and non clickable? > > *From:* ch...@wbmfg.com > *Sent:* Thursday,

Re: [AFMUG] Office Wire labeling

2017-12-28 Thread Lewis Bergman
I could ship you mine but your right, Without an ID toner there is a lot of running back and forth. On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 10:25 AM Nate Burke wrote: > I like the fast pull plan, but I'm probably going to be doing all the > termination by myself, so that involves alot of

Re: [AFMUG] Office Wire labeling

2017-12-28 Thread chuck
Perhaps some kind of capacitive clothespin clip that could induce a tone on a wire without contacting the wires. I wonder if I could jam enough signal into an open ended cable like that to be able to ID it in a bundle From: Nate Burke Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2017 9:25 AM To:

Re: [AFMUG] Office Wire labeling

2017-12-28 Thread Nate Burke
I like the fast pull plan, but I'm probably going to be doing all the termination by myself, so that involves alot of running back and forth. I don't have that fancy of a toner, just a simple (and cheap) telco one, which always seems to be able to narrow it down to about 4 cables in the

Re: [AFMUG] 2018

2017-12-28 Thread chuck
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9SQGH67 Hmmm, what is the difference between a clickable link and non clickable? From: ch...@wbmfg.com Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2017 8:53 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] 2018 Working on a newsletter for right after the start of the year announcing some

Re: [AFMUG] Office Wire labeling

2017-12-28 Thread Bill Prince
I'm with Lewis on this one. We do bundle duplex/quad groups together, but we don't worry about individual cables. We use the ID plugs and a toner to figure out which one is which. Labels fall off, and markers smear, especially when they're getting manhandled. bp

[AFMUG] 2018

2017-12-28 Thread chuck
Working on a newsletter for right after the start of the year announcing some new products and other fun things. I will include a short survey in that newsletter. Could you folks here please take my prototype survey so I can perhaps tweak it before I spam my whole universe? It is short and

Re: [AFMUG] Office Wire labeling

2017-12-28 Thread Lewis Bergman
Honestly, we just pull them all and tone them after. Seems just as fast. We have a Fluke cable tester that has 8 ID plugs and the probe tells you which one you touch so you can do 8 at once. At least I think that is how it works. Even if not toning is pretty fast way. We put a guy on each end and

Re: [AFMUG] Office Wire labeling

2017-12-28 Thread Jaime Solorza
These are the ones I use on panels and end devices most of the time for SCADA projects. Electricians use them as well when they pull wire for us...once tested and certified, we make our heat shrink and non heat shrink Brady ID labels never remove the original ones. We reposition if necessary..

Re: [AFMUG] Office Wire labeling

2017-12-28 Thread Jaime Solorza
Here you go... several ways to get it done.. https://www.cableorganizer.com/cable-identification/ Jaime Solorza On Dec 28, 2017 8:12 AM, wrote: > Sharpie works but is difficult to do well and rubs off. > You could use strips of tape and sharpie to do a binary code. > Tape,

Re: [AFMUG] Office Wire labeling

2017-12-28 Thread chuck
Sharpie works but is difficult to do well and rubs off. You could use strips of tape and sharpie to do a binary code. Tape, tape, sharpie, tape = 13 -Original Message- From: Nate Burke Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2017 8:06 AM To: Animal Farm Subject: [AFMUG] Office Wire labeling

Re: [AFMUG] PMP100 No Customer MAC in Bridging Table?

2017-12-28 Thread Christopher Gray
Resolved somehow. There are only 2 customers on this old AP. Customer #2 shuts off their router every night and it was off during troubleshooting... when they turned their router on this morning, it's MAC address showed up and the problem for Customer #1 went away right then and started showing a

[AFMUG] Office Wire labeling

2017-12-28 Thread Nate Burke
I'm getting ready to pull some Cat5 into an office space, about 40 drops. What's the best way to label the cables as they are pulled before they are dressed/punched. Printing a label for each cable that's going to get cut off as it's dressed into the patch panel seems wasteful. Colored tape

Re: [AFMUG] PMP100 No Customer MAC in Bridging Table?

2017-12-28 Thread Jay Weekley
I agree with Nate. I assume that if DHCP requests are getting through to your router there is an ethernet link on the radio. For trouble shooting I have the customer move the cable from the radios power supply to another port on their router or directly to a computer to see if a MAC shows up

Re: [AFMUG] PMP100 No Customer MAC in Bridging Table?

2017-12-28 Thread Nate Burke
Whenever I've seen similar situations, it's always Ethernet problems, bad cable/connector. Or a bad router. Rarely it's a bad SM. Are the Ethernet stats incrementing errors? On 12/28/2017 7:11 AM, Christopher Gray wrote: I have a customer who's PMP100 SM is not showing the customer MAC in

[AFMUG] PMP100 No Customer MAC in Bridging Table?

2017-12-28 Thread Christopher Gray
I have a customer who's PMP100 SM is not showing the customer MAC in the Bridging Table. SM and AP have both been rebooted. I usually see 3x addresses in the Bridging Table, 2x for the radio, and 1x for the customer, but I'm just seeing the 2x radio MACs even though customer DHCP requests are