I had a 250 GB hard drive connected to my router via a USB port. It served me well as a place to store backups outside of any internal computer drive. It was always there and didn’t need a computer or another server to be running 24/7. It used the router/switch to do that. About two weeks ago my home network must have taken another hit from one of the many electrical storms here in...
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P(r)aying For Rain Water
After a hard summer last year of extended drought conditions, north Texas has been blessed (?) with double average rain amounts. This comes to us in severe thunderstorms and multiple tornadoes. Mother Nature has seemed to have left out nice long gentle rains from her bag of weather tricks. Like Morton salt, “When it rains, it pours.” However it comes, the rain is welcome. The problem for me has been the electrical activity that an...
Continue reading...Ladies of the Lake
I just had to post this picture. I call these gals the “Ladies of the Lake” as they are friends, all living on the same end of the little lake that adjoins our homes. Left to right is Evelyn, Sandy, Pam, and my wife Gloria. The picture was taken at our home at a wedding shower party held for our daughter Shelley. I did not take the picture, the photographer may have been Danielle. If...
Continue reading...FM30 Repaired
I bought a new Ramsey FM30 FM broadcast band transmitter kit. I have it in hand. I was also sent gratis the repair and upgrade parts for the old transmitter shown here. The most critical item was the final amplifier which is a GAL5 surface mount technology (SMT) amplifier chip. This is the part I determined was bad in the previous report. The part is very tiny and has no leads (wires) off of it...
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