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  • What a Nice Day – Cool, Clear Skies, Moderate Winds & and a early rise

    Posted on April 26th, 2014 cwmoore No comments

    The day dawned early for me – got up, padded to the stove & made 3 day supply of Oat Meal, 6 cups of coffee and shuffled to the computer to “what see” then over to the notebook I am updating.  There is a reason I am early:  I forgot to update a computer at church to the new IP configuration and I wanted to check it out.  I have spent a lot of time this week tending to all those things that go awry in four months absence.  Well, it is more than that but I think I have already blogged about those details.

    I was on my way home by 1130 hrs locazkw-tm-d710al and got most of the way home before I remembered that I left the notebook with all my brains inside.  Back to the church I went to retrieve the  little yellow pad.  Ok, it was exactly where I left it but I did have to look for that exact place.  All during and before, I was on IRLP node 8783 making chatter and attending nets for the whole morning.  I like the ham radio thing on the worldwide IRLP link of repeaters and reflectors.  For example, late last night around the bewitching hour Steve and I were talking like he was right here but the fact is that he is in Treasure Island, Florida on his repeater with a tweeny, weeny handheld transceiver talking to me here in the NE Indiana local where I have my IRLP node. It is really cool technology and has an interest to me.

    By 0930 I was on my way to Angola Assembly of God church to finalize all the stuff I forgot yesterday when I was fatigued from long hours of multi-tasking.  I put all the new IP stuff into the sanctuary computer, checked its functionality, updated the virus scanner database ( that had the last update a year ago) and initiated a scheduled update and scan cycle,  made a full scan of the computer (which was clean thanks heaven).  Late yesterday I implemented bandwidth policies for both the Office and Guest groups on 4 levels of service and today I checked these out just to make sure there were no cracks in the policies: AOK. Then went over to see if the deep virus scan of the teenage group sound booth computer found anything and it had not since yesterday when I eliminated 4 major but notorious trojan and xxxxxx virus that were present at the time I cut the system off from everything.  It was time to add it back into the network with a few new policies.  I think I may be unpopular next Sunday when all of the 52 wireless devices try to connect and find there are a whole new set of blocked, censored and limited devices: I am tired of hearing about access issues.  A lot was done in a short period so maybe a few things need to be tweaked.

    I did manage to check into the “Say Good Morning to Radio Net” via the 4049 node.  For some reason, my node has an issue with “Pam” on her node that cuts her off after a few packets.  W9LKI does not seem to have this problem so I check in there on their wide area system.  After the Net the system followed the scripts I wrote and logged back onto reflector 9050 but two of the principal guys said I had an issue so I changed simplex frequencies that has seemed to be more clear: I have a new home frequency.

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