I've been told they sell as many game (trail) cams as security devices
as they do to hunters.
The trick in the woods as well as at home is to keep nasty people from
stealing them or vandalizing them.
Dave
On 11/13/2017 11:50 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 13 November 2017 13:44:57 andy pugh wrote:
On 13 November 2017 at 17:26, Przemek Klosowski
<przemek.klosow...@gmail.com> wrote:
Who would steal a coffee can with capacitors?
Another electronics hobbyist faced with a 150 mile drive to the
nearest vendor?
The only other person I can think of ran a radio shack dealer store, not
very successfully, 30 years ago. But he got into a local well service
shop, got hisself a certificate to handle highly radioactive stuff like
the alpha sources they used downhole to survey by reflection, what was
at or near the bottom of a 3k foot deep hole. But he parlayed that into
a job at the naval yards in Florida, around 25 years ago. Even if back
in this neck of the woods, I don't think he could find my place, let
alone know I had such a stash. I tried to teach him some programming of
the RCA-1802 since thats capable of working as a reflection data
particle processor in the presence of several seiverts of radiation 4"
away. Thats the cpu used in much of our spacecraft because the outer
space ambient radiation can hammer a modern cpu back into the sand it
was made of, particularly when our star gets pissed and points a solar
storm at us. We should be thankfull we have a magnetic field that steers
all that crap into the polar icecaps. His leaving the company he was
working for locally almost put them out of business because the license
to have that stuff left with him and they couldn't find a replacement.
He tried to hire me to come to Fl. and work under him, but lost interest
very quickly when I named my asking price. Which I of course inflated a
bit since I'd "found my niche" at the tv station and was in no mood to
leave for some military pie in the sky. I was well paid, and figured
that I was where I was going to stay till? or was past time to retire,
which I finally did coming up on my 67th. Then I spent about 10% of my
time out putting out engineering fires at other properties Russ owned
for the next 10 years.
But now I'm down to just one customer, the local radio station. I have to
go put him back on the air when the cash cow chokes, 2, maybe 3 times a
year. Other than the tv guys, I'm pretty much it around this neck of the
woods, everyone else has expired of old age or cancer and no one wants
to do this sort of thing.
Our schools have IMO beat the natural curiosity about such
scientific/physics related things out of the students who all want to be
stock brokers driving Lambo's.
We who can actually fix things like a transmitter of any power level are
a dying breed, and it will be my turn at some point since I'm 83,
diabetic, arthritic and who knows what else. I've had a hell of a ride,
but...
Other than losing the first wife of 10 years to a stroke at 34 yo back
in '68, and one by one the 3 children she gave me, I wouldn't change
much.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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