On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 14:36 -0700, Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: > Just when I thought I'd seen everything.... > > We have a customer who lives in a converted missile silo that has been > using our services for a few months. He's an engineer and has been a > real pain in the butt at times when he thinks there is a problem with > his connection. He has no cable, no satellite and no landline or cell > phone service, so he pretty much lives on his $39.95/month Internet > connection and MagicJack VOIP phone
<snip> > I finally determine that he is a Ham Radio operator and has > been getting calls from a guy in Kimball wanting to know what is wrong > with the Internet down there. So, in effect, mr. missile silo > reactivated a cold war signaling system (Ham Radio) and I got the > message back to him that he needs to power cycle. Unfortunately, a power > cycle didn't fix the problem, so now I am going across town to the radio > operator's house to see if I can provide reconfigure his CPE over ham > radio. > > This should be interesting. hi matt... i don't think you can legally do that over ham radio as that is pecuniary interest and the ham could get in trouble for it and you are a business. Leon WA4ZLW -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
