Same ol, same ol….\u00a0\u00a0 warm and humid, chance of rain, although we are on the edge of it, and it’s supposed to be clear for Friday and the weekend, so maybe it’ll blow out early.\u00a0\u00a0 Otherwise, high in the 80s low in the 70s.<\/p>\n
Spent yesterday afternoon at my client’s house putting in a cell booster.\u00a0\u00a0 The tricky part is the cable run.\u00a0\u00a0 The house has a second floor but only in the middle and there isn’t a clear path from one end to the other.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I didn’t want the external antenna visible on the front of the house, and the room that needs the boost is near the front.\u00a0\u00a0 The equipment closet is near the back.\u00a0\u00a0 I am going to try using the coax that was installed originally for satellite tv to get the antenna signal to the room.\u00a0\u00a0 If I don’t have to figure out how to pull new cable all the way, I will save a bunch of time and work.\u00a0 If you are building or doing a gut remodel, pull at least one coax and two cat 6 cables to every room that will get a tv.\u00a0 If you have weird tray ceilings, or some other thing that won’t allow access to the walls from the attic, put a piece of conduit in.\u00a0 Almost any signal can be carried over cat cable now, but pure RF still needs coax.<\/p>\n
There is only one room with unusable cell signal, and that is the office… so we’re finally fixing it. (We have a pico cell that uses the internet, but until att finally got the fiber in, there was no way to make that work.\u00a0 A straight up repeater is simpler, and doesn’t use third party paths…)<\/p>\n
Today I’ll head back out there to do the rest of the install and then I’ll go home and pull more hamfest stuff.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That’s the plan anyway.<\/p>\n
I did stop at the grocery store last night on my way home.\u00a0\u00a0 Beef was crazy high, and the only beef on sale was ‘value’ grade.\u00a0\u00a0 Chicken was cheap, maybe they’re all slaughtering before the birds get sick and flooding the market.\u00a0\u00a0 In any case, we are still only paying $4\/ dozen large eggs.\u00a0 Gas is around $3\/gal at “normal” stations.\u00a0\u00a0 It is cheaper if you go to costco or go looking for bargains.\u00a0\u00a0 Big name stations might be 10c higher.<\/p>\n
Stack-a while you can, monkey boy…<\/p>\n
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Same ol, same ol….\u00a0\u00a0 warm and humid, chance of rain, although we are on the edge of it, and it’s supposed to be clear for Friday and the weekend, so maybe it’ll blow out early.\u00a0\u00a0 Otherwise, high in the 80s low in the 70s.<\/p>\n
Spent yesterday afternoon at my client’s house putting in a cell booster.\u00a0\u00a0 The tricky part is the cable run.\u00a0\u00a0 The house has a second floor but only in the middle and there isn’t a clear path from one end to the other.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n