Check in ...East Coast BLACKOUT

Roger Halstead wrote:


One thing that has changed...my posts are showing up right away...they
often take as long as 12 to 24 hours on some of the newsgroups.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)

I'm only getting half of my normal allotment of SPAM. Sliver lining and
all that.
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:31:47 -0700, "Tom S." wrote:


"Tom S." wrote in message
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"Morgans" wrote in message
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"Roger Halstead" wrote in message

One thing that has changed...my posts are showing up right away...they
often take as long as 12 to 24 hours on some of the newsgroups.

Roger Halstead
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Really? Mine commonly show up within 2 or 3 minutes.

Mine show up in seconds. Hit "send", then "refresh" and there it is.

Yup!

Rub it in! Rub it in! :-))

Newsgroup service here has been really poor for some time. Not sure
why, but prior to yesterday I could count on it taking as much as 12
to 24 hours for my post to appear. Yet I might see two or three
answers prior to my original showing up.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 19:21:19 +0000 (UTC), (Paul
Tomblin) wrote:

In a previous article, Roger Halstead said:
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:02:13 +0000 (UTC), (Paul
Tomblin) wrote:
Man, I need a better UPS. This one cacked out in the time it took me to
recognize the beep and rush down the stairs.
no UPS. Those computers and monitors run close to 300 watts and it
requires turning the monitors on to shut the things down gracefully.

I can type "/sbin/shutdown -hf now" without a monitor. Now if only I'd
remember to plug the USB hub into the UPS so that the keyboard works...

It's always something. LOL That's what we get for using so may
labor saving devices.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 23:40:11 GMT, Wizard of Draws
wrote:

Roger Halstead wrote:


One thing that has changed...my posts are showing up right away...they
often take as long as 12 to 24 hours on some of the newsgroups.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)

I'm only getting half of my normal allotment of SPAM. Sliver lining and
all that.
Ur right...it is down...Only 48 so far and almost all of those were
filtered out. It's usually about 60 a day for the past couple of
months....

However if you want spam to go down you need to shut the power off in
Florida, not the NE.

BTW, virtually every post tonight has been hit send, refresh and I
find it. Refreshing.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)

"Peter R." wrote in message
ds.com...
Roger Halstead ) wrote:

BTW, that "out east" is kind of a slight to the people who are without
power. It extends to the west as far as (and apparently started in
Ohio). It also covers a good portion of lower Michigan

Roger, any point east of California is out east to some!

--
Peter

That should read Back East and Out West :-)

Wizard of Draws wrote:

I'm only getting half of my normal allotment of SPAM. Sliver lining and
all that.

I've been told that much of the telemarketing business is located in Toronto,
which was affected by the blackout. Wonder if it's a big center for spam
generators?

George Patterson
Brute force has an elegance all its own.

"Peter R." wrote:

Dr. Anthony J. Lomenzo wrote:

I had to add this one...so about the 5th hour of the power outage my
wife and I are listening to the portable radio and this lady calls in
and we hear... "Perhaps it's times like these when it's inconvenient to
lose power of course but then it's also a time for the family to finally
gather together and share long overdue quality time together" and within
moments of that comment, so help me, we hear from the background a
rather blustery, "Hey! Gimme that friggin' flashlight, Joey, or I'll bop
you with it!" So much for family huddled 'quality time.'

That is classic! It must have been hilarious to hear it in real time.

--
Peter


Peter:

Normally they have these 3 seconds [or more, dunno] delays for such
things [although they themselves were on generator power and possibly
the more fancy electronic gizmos were not functioning...dunno] and there
is always the possibility of a set-up because when there's just nothing
on in those kind of large area emergency situations, radio stations turn
to the phones for folks to essentially check-in and give reports but the
stuff coming in is amazing ranging from those who feel the end is upon
us and thus all should repent or that it's a terrorist movement of some
sort and others, let us say, by the speech and demeanor being obvious
'victims of the thirst' [or grape] as the Irish brethren would say.

This one was just totally unexpected BUT as anyone who has children can
testify [or recall], it 'can' get hairy as time goes on and the kids
have nothing to do when candles and essentially staring at each other or
the ceiling is the sum total of passing the hours [I pulled out the old
folk guitar but, hey, how long can I keep that up when the fingers begin
hurting after so many years of non use!] beyond the first 3 or 4...or
so. And 91 degrees heat and 100% humidity notwithstanding. Yet, did you
catch most of those news report beginnings, Peter, where the classic
[under]-statement was "...Well, this was not supposed to happen
folks...but it did!" and then the equally classic aftermath of such
things: the fixing of the blame. So far, I've heard the fault put on
everything from the 'Big Apple' to Canada to Ohio [!] to, you guessed
it, Al Quaeda [how the hell is that properly spelled anyway!? I've seen
about 5 different versions!] operative machinations.


Doc Tony

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 19:11:16 GMT, "Dave Stadt"
wrote:

One government nit wit gave out a WEB address on a news program for those
without power to log onto to get status of the problem. Announcer made a
comment about the guy being out of touch with reality and dumped the phone
line.
Uh... modern laptops connected to a land telephone line would have had
at least 4 hours of battery life for a careful user to shepherd all
the way through the crisis, to get updates.

But an AM or shortwave radio would have lasted much much longer.

Rob

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 23:03:28 -0500, Big John
wrote:

Texas grid did not go down. It's not hooked to anyone else.

Hey I noticed that on the interconnect map. Wonder why that is when
everyone else is connected to a much larger grid.

Out west here the grid is designed to partition itself as
automatically as possible if something happens to go wrong. I seem to
recall that in the mid-nineties it kept the big-area states here from
all collapsing when that Idaho power plant went belly-up. From this
layman's perspective that's pretty neat engineering.

It seems to me that the most problematic part of the national system
is that northeast interconnect. The rest of us seem to be getting
along pretty well with five or six-nines reliability on the system.
Heck, even in the northeast with the outage this week I'd say they're
getting six nines.

Rob

In this mornings paper they reported about the guy on the radio in the
mid west that for over two hours kept reporting the dire consequences
of power outages around his station (city). With the length of time (2
hrs) he 'reported', people began to believe and started to panic.

Can you yell fire in a crowded room with the doors locked and get away
with it. His spoof was not free speech. They should hang the guy.

Big John


On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:54:15 -0500, "Montblack"
wrote:

How you folks "out east" doing tonight?

Check in when you get back up and running.