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Thursday, March 05, 2009

Finding the 3G Internet sweet spot at Talking Trees.

8 AM call everyone at home. Learned that Santiago died.
9 AM RACQ pick up car and tow it to Cooroy. Presumably to change the alternator.
Found a great regional map and add a few to the clipboard in my camera.

Found a signal strength meter in the Internet modem software.  -98 dBm
Relocate antenna a little.
As forest dries the signal improves to -94 dBm, but drops to -106 dBm for no apparent reason. 

I type up documentation in "instructions for PC.doc"

Got the hotwater heater to spark and click but no gas flow.  It needs a minimum of .025 Mpa which equals 3.625 psi which is 100 inch water or 2.5 m head. None of this helps since we have far less on this gravity fed system.

2 hours of phone calls on skype only seems to have used 61 MB of his 1000 MB per month allowance. Excellent!