Re: Anyone with the FAA around, VOR-DME circuit related.

2022-08-28 Thread Scott McGrath
Hi, Luke Definitely NOT with the FAA, but as a pilot I would recommend you contact your local FSDO. I've attached a link for the local FSDO offices they can certainly connect to the appropriate resource since its a safety issue. https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/field_offices/fsdo/ On

Re: FCC vs FAA Story

2022-06-07 Thread Scott McGrath
Hi Sabri The flight cancellations are already happening, now if weather threatens to make a RA required approach necessary at an airport covered by a 5G NOTAM the flight is frequently cancelled. Have you not noticed that during inclement weather this year the number of cancellations has vastly

Re: FCC vs FAA Story

2022-06-06 Thread Scott McGrath
Here’s the problem FCC ignored the rest of the world and EU’s 5G deployment in the rest of the world 5G base stations have half the EIRP of their US counterparts and the antenna systems use downtilt so 5G coverage on the ground is better and RADALT operation is largely unaffected except for

Re: 10 Do's + Don'ts for Visiting Québec + Register Now for N85!

2022-05-10 Thread Scott McGrath
Definitely try the smoked meat sandwich I recommend asking for 'medium fat' used to visit Montreal frequently pre pandemic On Sun, May 8, 2022 at 9:22 PM Randy Bush wrote: > once upon a time at an ietf in ville de québec, i was out to dinner with > a crew of fellow researchers all french, well

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-04 Thread Scott McGrath
Great presentation! On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 11:16 AM Matthew Petach wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2022, 07:17 Dorn Hetzel wrote: > >> One hopes there is some respectable, perhaps even paranoid, encryption on >> his control functions. >> >>> > Talk about timely! We just had a very nice

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-02 Thread Scott McGrath
The Russians have several ASAT systems not all of them are ground based. Remember they also have that grappler which locks onto satellites and destroys them. I think this conflict will be the first one where some of the battles will be fought in orbit ie the ultimate ‘high ground’ the NATO

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-01 Thread Scott McGrath
Starlink however forgets that Russia does have anti satellite weapons and they probably will not hesitate to use them which will make low earth orbit a very dangerous place when Russia starts blowing up the Starlink birds. I applaud the humanitarian aspect of providing Starlink service,

Re: What do you think about this airline vs 5G brouhaha?

2022-01-19 Thread Scott McGrath
Um the Lightsquared monster is back stronger than ever however it has a new name Ligado Networks Yes we now have something which everyone agrees will hose every civillian GPS receiver out there. But hey thats the user’s problem. I’m glad i know how to use a sextant…. Perhaps someone will

Re: What do you think about this airline vs 5G brouhaha?

2022-01-19 Thread Scott McGrath
I’m guessing you are not a pilot, one reason aviation is resistant to change is its history is written in blood,Unlike tech aviation is incremental change and painstaking testing and documentation of that testing. When that does not happen we get stuff like the 737 Max debacle Aviation is

Re: att or sonic "residential" fiber service at a "nontraditional" residence.

2020-11-02 Thread Scott McGrath
I’d say ‘it depends’ on the sales organization being willing to sell it. The non-profit also has to realize that they get the same service restoration speeds and customer support that a residential customer gets. On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 8:24 PM Mark Seiden wrote: > att 1Gb/sec symmetric fiber

Re: So why don't US citizens get this?

2008-07-28 Thread Scott McGrath
Actually ubiquitous power came from a government mandate and funding known as the Rural Electrification Act.The former Bell system left many areas of the country without telephone service and the same act set up the Rural Telco's to this day I am served by Kearsarge Telephone Co at home

Re: [Fwd: Admin: Offtopic Political Threads]

2008-07-28 Thread Scott McGrath
To a degree yes - This issue revolves around the inability to provide end-to-end network services due to artificial constraints in the last mile. At our shop we call it Troubleshooting the Internet when one of our customers cannot use a service which we provide and in too many cases it

Re: DNS problems to RoadRunner - tcp vs udp

2008-06-14 Thread Scott McGrath
Not to toss flammables onto the pyre. BUT there is a large difference from what the RFC's allow and common practice. In our shop TCP is blocked to all but authoratative secondaries as TCP is sinply too easy to DoS a DNS server with. We simply don't need a few thousand drones clogging the