Re: [WISPA] Preventing stupid outages

2012-03-17 Thread Blair Davis
GFCI's are to detect and prevent leakage currents. They monitor the current in the hot and the neutral lines. Ever stood barefoot on the ground and held a drill or saw and gotten shocked? A GFCI, working properly, will prevent that from killing you, or even

Re: [WISPA] Omni antenna for a rocket M900

2012-03-17 Thread Blair Davis
I am using a 'cheap' H-Pol omni, 9.5db or so, about $450, and a 9db V-Pol omni, about 6ft tall!!! It works... ok. on 900MHz , antennas are big and expensive. I am currently looking at an 11db H-Pol omni, waveguide type... about 11ft tall... and almost

Re: [WISPA] What will it take to kill this for good?

2012-03-17 Thread Jerry Richardson
Time. We all called it 18 months ago that there was no way they were going to be allowed to proceed. FCC is not going to re-engineer the spectrum for one company. They have an army of attorneys that will tie any suit up until LS runs out of money. I find it unlikely that any argument by LS that

Re: [WISPA] What will it take to kill this for good?

2012-03-17 Thread Doug Clark
I can tell you one thing is for sure... The two attorneys law firms will make millions on the lawsuit before ending up bankrupting Lightsquared. Just my .02 cents worth also ---Original Message--- From: Jerry Richardson Date: 3/17/2012 1:09:21 PM To: WISPA General List

Re: [WISPA] Preventing stupid outages

2012-03-17 Thread Jonathan Schmidt
GFCIs…you can’t live with them and can’t live without them. A real problem is that they wear out…something that isn’t well known. Old GFCIs may pop prematurely or fail to pop. TEST THEM YEARLY! About the hair dryer in the bathtub…assuming the water is ground, I can’t imagine that exactly

Re: [WISPA] Preventing stupid outages

2012-03-17 Thread Blair Davis
Often, in homes with plastic pipes, the water in the tub is NOT grounded! On 3/17/2012 9:41 PM, Jonathan Schmidt wrote: GFCIsyou

Re: [WISPA] Preventing stupid outages

2012-03-17 Thread Jonathan Schmidt
Oops…that tells you I’m an old F@#rt. Thanks, Blair,…you’re right. Hadn’t thought of that. . . . j o n a t h a n _ From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Blair Davis Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 9:08 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: