Which brings up another good story.
An 85 year old lady called in one day and said at 4:50 every day her computer started playing the Battle Hymn of the Republic. She said her children and grandkids had all tried to figure out why this happened and she was totally frustrated. Since she only lived a few miles away, the technician offered to go to her house at 4:45 pm and see what he could figure out when the song started playing. At 4:50 the Battle Hymn started playing. The technician reached into a basket full of odds and ends and pulled out an old alarm clock that was covered by other junk. How do you bill a sweet little old lady for that? You don't but it makes a great story. Rick PS. Which brings up another story.. Another lady called in and said her computer works fine until she sits down at it and then it goes dark. When she gets up from her chair or if she pounds real hard on the desk the computer lights up again. The technician decided to help out by visiting the house. Sure enough, shortly after she sat down, the monitor went dark. She pounded on the desk and all the sudden the monitor came back on. The technician noticed that a cat ran out from underneath the desk when she pounded on it. He then told her to wait a few minutes and see what happens. Sure enough the cat returned to its spot under the desk and the monitor went black again. The technician said "pound on the desk again and look at the floor". When she did it, the cat ran out. He said, "there is your problem". She told him that the cat likes to lay on her feet when she sits there and she likes it because it keeps her feet warm. Sure enough the monitor cable was laying on the floor in the same spot and the cat must have put enough pressure on it to break the circuit. Another problem solved but you had to be there to figure it out! From: motorola-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:motorola-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 6:27 PM To: Motorola Canopy User Group Subject: Re: [Motorola II] Crazy Weather This has been the wettest spring in memory here west of Chicago. Some of the farmers still have not been able to work their fields because they are too wet. That makes them over a month late to plant, it's getting to where it will be too late to plant anything in those fields. Not the usual crops of field or soybeans. They are starting to talk sweet corn or limas. I guess they could always plant hay. Our biggest business customer is a fertilizer dealer and they don't know day to day what things will be like, if it rains the farmers don't spread fertilizer, if it is dry for a couple days then they can't handle all the orders. They do all the custom fertilizer mixing via VPN to a central application server. I was just out to a location where their PIX501 stopped talking to the Canopy SM, I finally had to put a switch inbetween. Not a negotiation problem, just plain strange. Unfortunately lightning and tornados are not limited to spring. The last few years we have been hit in June/July, even a really bad lightning storm at Christmas time. We have had tornados and microbursts that have picked up silos and dropped them on the opposite side of a barn. The storm a couple days ago I had one customer router blow, and one old Tranzeo radio. I also had a customer call today because they went to Florida for the month of March, they have been back since the beginning of April, and their Internet has not worked since then. I actually left a phone message for them in April, they are an older couple anb honestly I was worried they had died or something. Oddly, another Tranzeo customer. All they had to do was power cycle the radio. But waiting 2.5 months before calling? ----- Original Message ----- From: Steve D <mailto:bigd...@gmail.com> To: Motorola Canopy <mailto:motor...@wispa.org> User Group Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 5:10 PM Subject: Re: [Motorola II] Crazy Weather As I was reading this very thread, the first big boom of thunder of the year shook my office! -Steve D On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Dylan Bouterse <dy...@corp.power1.com> wrote: That sounds like an average afternoon here in Central Florida. We dread "the season". Fortunately today has been rather calm..so far. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida#Climate "Florida's nickname is the "Sunshine State", but severe weather is a common occurrence in the state. Central Florida is known as the lightning capital of the United States, as it experiences more lightning strikes than anywhere else in the country." L Dylan From: motorola-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:motorola-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Doug Clark Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 5:52 PM To: Motorola Canopy User Group Subject: Re: [Motorola II] Crazy Weather Its been thunderstorms and massive rain here, I have been fielding non stop calls with blown routers and ethernet cards :o( -------Original Message------- From: Matt Larsen - Lists <mailto:li...@manageisp.com> Date: 6/10/2009 3:44:24 PM To: WISPA General List <mailto:wireless@wispa.org> ; Motorola Canopy <mailto:motor...@wispa.org> User Group; w...@part-15.org Subject: [Motorola II] Crazy Weather Storm #2 rolling in today.... We've already had three tornado warnings and at least one on the ground within three miles of my house. Amazingly enough - nothing is down other than one site that had a brief power outage. New 9 mile 19ghz link on 2' dishes faded from -48 to -70 for a while and then came back within a few minutes. Seems like we have had rain and lightning almost every night for the last two weeks. I can't help but feel that we are very fortunate that we have only had to replace a couple of radio units since it all started. This is the most rain we have gotten here in probably ten years or so. Anyone else seeing weird weather so far this year? Matt Larsen vistabeam.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.60/2166 - Release Date: 06/10/09 05:52:00 -- -Steve D No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.61/2167 - Release Date: 06/10/09 18:30:00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! 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