I don’t know what this means.
It’s from the film Casino where Sam Rothstein says he has to manage every aspect of the casino, right down to telling the chef to put an equal amount of blueberries in each muffin he bakes. The chef complains at the futility of it - and is fired about 2 seconds after Rothstein walks off.
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If you need to explain it…
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Today was the first time in ages that I missed Radio 4 LW. (198 KHz) The QTH is in a bit of a radio hole so not only is 2m useless from home, band 2 FM is also completely void of signals. We also had fibre broadband and over the last 10 years have gradually removed everything else, so no satellite no DAB…
Two weeks ago one of the local farmers didn’t manage to load the excavator correctly on the tractor and there was a loud ping as the overhead fibre suddenly wasn’t. It wasn’t ours but the one up to the nearby farm. I think it is Kevlar wrapped fibre so it took a lot of force, also pulling a power cable out of a neigh ours house…Today the third set of Openreach “technicians” arrived (the first two pairs had a bit of a panic as the cable wasn’t copper…)and have replaced the first part of the broken fibre, but have cunningly either disconnected or broken our fibre connection.
Reporting the fault is like a mini SOTA expedition up the hill to a point where there are two bars on the phone ( about 400m horizontally but 50m up the hill…). I wasn’t dead impressed when it suggested that if I hadn’t rebooted everything to try that…. So back down the hill, reboot everything and once again nothing…
Roll forward to tonight and I have cobbled together a 4G router and an antenna up a 10 ft pole to get me a whole 2 Mb of connectivity- sometimes. ( I think the signal changes with diffraction around the sheep)… but no broadcast radio.
This is where the old Sony with LW came out and allowed me to listen to the radio, except it isn’t there now…. Rather scarily it is worrying how much we (I) rely on an internet connection. For us TV, Radio, Music, some lights are smart and linked to WiFi, smart speakers that I use to play music or radio, Sotawatch, the newspaper which I subscribe to online, my bank balance, a telephone as the copper connected one was no longer an option…..
Openreach are booked for tomorrow- so they will probably swop the fibers and ours will be light again and someone else will go dark…. 73. Paul
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Increasing price of these recently has made valves become a good backup option again.
It’s still worth having both in the shack I think.
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For gamers you can throw video games in to the mix too. Sony essentially killing off the format they brought to market (HDDVD died along with Toshiba about 5 seconds after it launched).
It is all about subscription culture. Remember the saying, “you will own nothing and you will be happy”.
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This is when Starlink comes in handy. Keeping Starlink on a standby plan is about £10 a month