[Donewrken]

Yeah, we should have kept everything!!! LOL!!! First cars included!!!
Dad bought the house I grew up in new in 1952 for around $22,000.
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It's in the million dollar price range now.

Don
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[mopar65pa]

Taxes are part of the reason we want to move. The other is we want to be self sufficient and grow our own food. The people selling the property are a few years older than my wife and I. After 2 years they came to find out that it's more work than they can handle. So they are headed back to NJ where they have family.

The house I helped build and grew up in is falling down. Dad let the roof go too long and it rotted out and collapsed. 😭 I ran some numbers and got a few estimates and it's going to cost $300K to demo and rebuild it. I don't have that kind of money, Dad was broke when he passed, Mom doesn't have the money and lives in FL. My brother and sister live in FL also and they don't have the money either. So who knows what's going to happen to it.

 

[609745]

two years lots new taxes in jersey, the real i state has gone crazy,100% of market with yearly reevaluations,

 

[Donewrken]

TheU-Blox antennae has much to do with the accuracy, the better "surveyor" grade ones start around $100 bucks and go into $500-$600 range and more.
There are also smaller ones that will give good results. I'm looking at U-Blox products in the $80 - $150 range.
These would allow it to be mounted on the end of the boom with the magnetic base.
I think I just bought two of these from Germany.

Suddenly, my credit card sent me a second notice of a Pay-Pal charge of $80 bucks.
Well if I kept trying to finish setting up my account at the sellers website I'd probably have purchased a third one. So I just closed the browser and will wait a day to see what or if they send conformation for the purchase and then battle it out with PP.

Wow!! I just had this issue resolved with the assistant on the PP website. Opened a chat and an agent came on and was able to get the charges removed in a few minutes. After the session, I looked and had three messages . Opened them and it showed the "pending" transactions and also showed if they did not contact me about these charges within three days, they would be removed. So either way it's all done.
Surprised how well it went.
I rarely use them but sketchy purchases go thru them.
I did manage to finally find the antenna on the SparkFun website. They also sell on Amazon but the two items I want are only found on their site. I emailed and asked them if they could make them available thru Amazon and will wait to hear back from them.
They have a board with both chips integrated that just needs the antenna to be a working system. It uses Ublox proprietary software and satellite data correction system plus their program that has the user interface to make it a real time centimeter accurate GPS. It's about $400 for the whole setup.

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[Donewrken]

Check this out. He does a real time demo of this chip's performance.

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[609745]

got out of the house to sit on my deck. fresh clean air , no doggie, no wife, no nursing home/rehab stink, just 50 deg clean spring like air, man did that feel good, started PT with the local i've known for 35 years, what a workout she gave me.
don
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[Donewrken]

clean spring like air, man did that feel good, started PT with the local i've known for 35 years, what a workout she gave me.

how are you making out with those chip sets? close to breaking ground?

Good! You need a good workout after all the sloughing off you've been doing lately!!!
No place like home!!!!

Found the chips and accessories, proly be ordering them today after PP saved me from the evil foreign web site that wouldn't create an account but tried to get in my wallet.

Those are more toys to keep me motivated towards starting the house build.

Try not to hurt yourself, keeping in mind what you just went thru, you do not want to start over!!!!

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[609745]

no way don.doc surprised me wasn't mad about walking out of that place,stated i'll be in touch with the hospital about the issue , PT is going to come to me for a week than wife will drive me the 2 miles to her shop.

work wise the motors and model a will have to wait , than when they are done so am i. NOW where is my fly rod? OHH right over my tools boxes. hybrid strippers in the one lake 1/4 mile away should be moving around when i'm ready . same with the bigger lake .spring means walleye and musky .

 

[Donewrken]

hybrid strippers in the one lake 1/4 mile away

Your a cruel man!!!
I shouldn't have told you about me fishing for them every third week for a few years!! Nothing like the adrenaline rush when your in the middle of a boil and get one every cast.
I'm still after the one that's 55 gallon barrel sized!
A guy showed me several pictures of the ones he pulled out of the State water project aqueduct that were the size of his leg. He was around 6'2".
He finally stopped fishing the one near his home after being warned the next time the fine would be over $1,000 bucks. He'd been written up 5-6 times.
About a month later a friend and I got nailed by a lady officer at 3:00 - 4:00AM on a Friday night/Saturday morning. I asked if we could go ahead and stay until daylight since we'd already been ticketed. She got MAD and said in a stern way "Don't Push Your Luck". I started packing up even faster. LOL!!!
Cost me $95 bucks and since I had to take a vacation day to go to court, I went fishing the rest of the day.
I thought I'd gotten away with it but my friend told his wife about what I said to the officer, she then told my wife.
Oops!!!!
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[609745]

the 5 lakes are all private, we have long stocked, walleye, black crappie, small and largemouth bass, pickerel, musky, brown and channel cats, blue gill. musky's have been caught to 56 inches, walleye to 13 pounds,channel cats over 20. lots of fun,
while i enjoy fresh water i'm more a old salt lover, more at home over 100 miles offshore than on land

 

[609745]

hope you have found a antenna don. seems like a lot of researching to do that job,

 

[Donewrken]

the key item to that is finding out how and where to utilize the free services. There are probably hundreds of commercial - for profit company's trying to lure you in offering "free trials". I found one which is world wide and offers a free forever service named "SNIP". You can set your chip to use their service to get the correction data to feed to the GPS chip.

A "Caster" is like what a server is to the Internet and just sends out the corrected data which the chip uses to remove or ignore data it gets from the satellites it is connected to. That is what gives this chip the centimeter accuracy.
It's a matter of utilizing this service by using their "client" software and incorporating it's use in the software from the chip manufacturer.
Simple as that. . . . . . .
Yeah a short learning curve, there ya go all the beans on the plate for you to dine on!!
Well, I received an email from the maker of the board with the two chips integrated on one of their boards in response to my question of will they sell it on Amazon.
The answer is no. They do advertise a 30 day return policy same as Amazon. *I think I will give it a try.
I'll purchase the antenna thru them so there will be no reason why it shouldn't work straight out of the box.

Here I go! Wish me luck.

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[Donewrken]

I made an order for the antenna, board and extras such as a couple of cases, battery/power regulator circuit, cords and an extension cable for the antenna. Less than $500 for all of it. The chips are top of the line Ublox products combined onto one board. This is the only one I could find other than buying them mounted on separate boards which would then need to be patched together with cords or directly hard wired. It made more sense to get them mounted one without the need for additional connections. They each have their own USB connection and could be plugged in at the same time, then the software could choose which one by selecting the port it's connected to.

Others on the market for land leveling.

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[Joe/GA]

Well, notifications quit on me again. Just finished reading a couple of pages. Glad to hear you are doing well, Charles. That sounds like some really good fishing.
Tony, I wish I could use a wood stove. I installed one in our house when we lived in Georgia. I loved it, but my wife did not like the heat and her COPD made her sensitive to the smoke. Just opening the stove door allowed a puff of smoke to get into the house and bothered her breathing. I had to rip out the wood stove, sell it at a loss, and I bought a natural gas insert that got it's air for consumption from outside and all exhaust went up the chimney. Nothing but heat entered the house and it came with a remote control and thermostat. Not cheap, but pleasing to look at and functional.
Don, you are getting into some cool techy, nerdy stuff. That looks like it is going to be an amazing system. Can't wait for the video of it in use! I had to engage my brain last week when our microwave oven died again. This is the second time in the last few months. This thing cost me almost $1000 when we bought the house 7+ years ago. It's the kind that sits over the range and is also the range hood. I found a bad relay for the vent fan low speed which was causing the fan to run anytime the door was closed. Fortunately, I had the other control board with a bad magnetron relay and I stole the relay from it. I then ordered new relays and, when they come in, I'll make a working spare control board.
Tony, we are getting buckets of rain here. All day yesterday and today. I'll try not to send it your way!
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Tony, I wish I could use a wood stove. I installed one in our house when we lived in Georgia. I loved it, but my wife did not like the heat and her COPD made her sensitive to the smoke. Just opening the stove door allowed a puff of smoke to get into the house and bothered her breathing. I had to rip out the wood stove, sell it at a loss, and I bought a natural gas insert that got it's air for consumption from outside and all exhaust went up the chimney. Nothing but heat entered the house and it came with a remote control and thermostat. Not cheap, but pleasing to look at and functional.

Tony, we are getting buckets of rain here. All day yesterday and today. I'll try not to send it your way!
Later guys.

Welcome back Joe. I know I shouldn't do this but I keep the tabs up on threads I read and post on a lot, so if that happens and I don't see a post for a day or 2 I will click on it and refresh it and once I post again on it I start getting notifications again.

I love the smell of fresh burning wood when I open the door and load more wood. It makes the house smell like an old country cabin so I can pretend I'm living in the middle of nowhere in a cabin since that's my dream retirement house. 😁 Sorry your wife can't live with a wood stove due to health problems.
We have a LP (fake) wood stove in our living room. It heats great, it pulls air from the house and sends it out a vent. But the problem is that a 100lbs LP tank only lasts 12-14 days. My HVAC system is more efficient than that thing. Oh it's pretty to look at and heats well with a non-electric heat powered fan on top of it. But man does it use LP.

I hope it doesn't rain tomorrow i have things to do outside so I can backfill the rest of the septic hole I dug. The tractor goes to the shop to have the front hub fixed tomorrow. I still have wood to split and the tractor runs the splitter. I would do it today but I'm in pain today.
I have inside stuff to do like flash patch the concrete patch from the hole I cut in it for the septic, to smooth out so I can cut new vinyl flooring back in and clean the playroom/basement back into order after the poop flood we had. Added to the fact that I need to cut out the moldy drywall and replace it down there too. So please keep the rain better than Don has for me please. 🤣

@Donewrken Tell me this mr electronics. For 3 days my phone would not update my weather, was having trouble finding sites I was looking for, with a response of (site can't be found no connection) with full bars on the wifi and 2 bars on the AT&T connection. I go to town walk in the AT&T store to have them look at it and it works now with no wifi. This is why I love/hate tech.

Ok that is all................... 😁

 

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Joe, nice to hear from you
I have been dipping into some specs that I know you could appreciate, involving wave lengths and such.
ore on that later, Tony's crying again. . . . .

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[mopar65pa]

Hey I'm not crying I just don't understand this bungleola! Zero's and 1n's don't compute with me. 🤣

 

[609745]

don't worry about those zeros and ones, making a old school hemi or 440 run is more important ,

 

[Donewrken]

Joe, nice to hear from you
I have been dipping into some specs that I know you could appreciate, involving wave lengths and such.

For 3 days my phone would not update my weather, was having trouble finding sites I was looking for, with a response of (site can't be found no connection) with full bars on the wifi and 2 bars on the AT&T connection. I go to town walk in the AT&T store to have them look at it and it works now with no wifi. This is why I love/hate tech.

Ok that is all................... 😁

It's 53° here sunshine and the front door is open for peep outs.
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I cant speak on the specifics of the AT&T products since I have no experience with them. I also cannot speak of the equipment used in the central offices other than the generic workings that is common industry standards and never in regards to proprietary protocols.
What I do know about WiFi is limited to what I have dealt with in regards to how some of it is incorporated in PC's, single board computers and with Windows10 & Windows11.
So I'm no help to you on your phone at all. Also the AT&T cellular is essentially a separate company from the present day AT&T, which is several generations different from the "American Telephone and Telegraph Company" that I started to work for way back in the early 70's.
As far as Windows and WiFi and if you can not connect to a device, or it is spotty you can try restarting the driver. If that doesn't work then you probably need a fresh copy of the driver to replace the damaged one on your computer.

An interesting side note to the topic of cellular technology opposed to land line communications is how the industry changed from the initial telegraph signal, a radio signal thru wire carrying what was really computer speak, dashes and dots or O's and 1's caused by the transmitter starting and stopping. Then that changed when Alex said Watson, get your hinny in here, dang it! That was when he made the first telephone call back in 1876. It was an analog voice transmission over wire. The signal structure closely emulates a radio wave transmission over the airways. The top and bottom of the wave sort of chopped off and the rest sort of squished together. Think of an oscilloscope waveform.

Then analog transmission started the transition into digital transmission, think of oscilloscope square-waveform. The wave was sliced and diced and those little pieces were combined with many more pieces and lumped into a frame, (think of movie film frames) and the frames were combined with many more frames and then transmitted as a package that was combined with many more packages and thru time-division multiplexing many many packages are transmitted.
Yeah, a bunch of stuff in one pipe, but wait!! There's more thru frequency-division multiplexing. . . . .

On yet another side note, the invention of the CD and CD player works the same way fiber optic telephone systems work, and that's pretty amazing all by it's self.

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My stepdad was an engineer. the guy is/was the smartest guy I have ever known. He had those tools and knowledge to use them. .
He built and designed cameras for NASA.
The guy was smart! Me not so much. I don't see numbers I see parts fitting together. Not the reason why they have to be like that but just that that is how they go together. 😁

I'm going out the the old house and just grab things that could be stolen, now that everyone knows he is gone. I'll be taking the oscilloscope that I have had in my life since I was 8 years old before it get's trashed or stolen. I have no clue how to use it but it's my history and nobody will steal that.