Thanks Everyone

[ParaclipseCKu]

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone for all the great information here. Finding Satellite Guys has really brought the fun back to the hobby for me.
Just plain technical information without complaints about what we don't receive anymore. Reminds me when I started in the '80s and found a great group of satellite enthusiasts on Compuserve who helped me get started in this hobby.

Let's hope for an early spring at least for those of us who don't want to brave freezing temperatures and see metal stuck to our fingers!

 

[Lak7]

who don't want to brave freezing temperatures and see metal stuck to our fingers!

LOL.

There's these things called "Gloves", they cover your hands, greatest thing for working in the cold.

Compuserve

Haven't heard that in tha Long time.

 

[gabshere]

some of us go way back

although i seem to go further than a lot of others.....

good thing my memory isn't gone yet i still remember calling into BBS's and connecting at less than 100 CPS ( yeah thats characters per second)

 

[Tron]

Compuserve and BBSs... Wow... That brings back memories

I was SysOp for my high school's BBS back in the late 80s. Unfortunately, I never had a working satellite system back then. I was collecting C-Band parts for one, and still have those parts to this day.

 

[gabshere]

yeah i ran one with a software called Wildcat

man those were the days

 

[rv1pop]

I will also admit to being older than ..... My first computer had 16 (maybe more) - 6881 tubes. Dual triode. And toggle switches for data entry. Punched tape for programing I/O, Fortunately I am able to forget most of that by now. (1962).
Was on a BBS in late 80s, early 90s. I had the distinction of being the test crasher for the system! If I could stay on for more than 2 hours five times in a row, the system was considered very crash resistant!

AND I hope I was one of those that helped you. This board / forum has been a great help to me, too.
POP

 

[Mr Tony]

Let's hope for an early spring at least for those of us who don't want to brave freezing temperatures and see metal stuck to our fingers!

dont lick your fingers first and you should be ok

just went out and moved the big dish out of the garage...+4 wind chill -12 and 6 new inches of snow on the ground...got that dish tuned in under 10 seconds on what satellite I wanted

 

[Tron]

-12 wind chill? That kind of cold would give me a good incentive to work quickly and accurately. I'll bet you had it tuned in under 10 seconds

 

[ParaclipseCKu]

I received my dish today, and it looks like it should be easy to put together. If Iceberg can do it with a subzero windchill, I am going to have to give it a shot

Just have to wait for the feed to show up and I should be off to the races. With any luck maybe we'll get a nice January thaw after the arctic blast late this week. Which of course you folks in the mid-west are experiencing now!

 

[Mr Tony]

-12 wind chill? That kind of cold would give me a good incentive to work quickly and accurately. I'll bet you had it tuned in under 10 seconds

tron

this morning it was -18 BEFORE the wind
in International Falls (right on the Canadian border) they broke a record...
MINUS 42
broke the old record by 6 degrees (-36)....

 

[Tron]

So true, I was listening to the weather reports and they mentioned that Minnesota is getting the brunt of this latest arctic front. Looks like New Orleans may freeze for the first time this season (some suburbs have been below freezing, but not the city so far )

 

[Davage]

This week I am in Winnipeg. Man oh man, is it COLD. Temperatures at minus 36 degrees Celcius without wind chill. Minus 49 with wind chill.. I haven't seen anybody outside working on their satellite dishes this week at all.

 

[DJ Rob]

We are missing out on the cold finally. It's supposed to almost 50 tomorrow and 60 the days over the weekend here in Denver. I'm sure we'll get our share soon though. You all stay warm!

 

[eurosport]

I'm in north Florida and the prediction is for a low of 16 by Friday night!

 

[Mr Tony]

16...heh
we're on hour 52 of being below zero...maybe by Friday we **might** get above zero
tonight's low....-23 before the wind....we made the nat'l news because of Embarrass, MN
-47 this morning

MINUS 47.....

 

[rv1pop]

We are missing out on the cold finally. It's supposed to almost 50 tomorrow and 60 the days over the weekend here in Denver. I'm sure we'll get our share soon though. You all stay warm!

That weather is just for me. We are heading to TX and did not want to go through CA to get there. Thanks for the nice traveling WX for the motorhome!

 

[Tron]

16...heh
we're on hour 52 of being below zero...maybe by Friday we **might** get above zero
tonight's low....-23 before the wind....we made the nat'l news because of Embarrass, MN
-47 this morning

MINUS 47.....

I'm trying to wrap my mind around what being in -47 would actually be like... I mean, certainly the human body can't take that for any period of time! Near instant freezing of one's mouth and nose would seem to be a given.

The lowest I've ever been out in was -5 (F), when we got snowed in one year on vacation in the Virginia mountains.

 

[brentb636]

Here in Holland, we are in a little "warm spot" protected by the big lake. For about 75 miles up and down the west Michigan coast, the Westerly winds give us lake effect snow, and milder temps. This morning , our low was 10 degrees, but in Lansing it was -16 degrees. Even Grand Rapids, just up the street , has a 15 degree differential from us. Finally, a positive reason to have moved here ( besides the summer stuff, of course ) .

 

[Mr Tony]

I'm trying to wrap my mind around what being in -47 would actually be like... I mean, certainly the human body can't take that for any period of time! Near instant freezing of one's mouth and nose would seem to be a given.

probably the same thing "us northerners" think about folks who live in Arizona where is 110+ during the summer.

and this morning it was -27 here in suburban Minneapolis and -53 in Babbitt (Northeastern MN)

Going outside for more than a little bit (unless you have to) when its that cold is crazy. This may sound goofy but -21 and no wind is better than -3 and wind. The -21 no wind is just dry cold. The wind makes it worse.

If you have to work outside in it like mailmen do they bundle in layers. They also take those little hand warmer things with them (they are about the size of a small candy bar and crack open. They keep ya warm).

 

[Cadsulfide]

A balmy -31f in Cavalier, ND Wenesday morning. Looks like one of the goats is going to have shorter ears come spring.