[PVRCNC] [PVRC] PVRC-NC East Chapter meeting

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

Folks,

Sorry to inform that Ham Radio Priorities have been flummoxed by a
birthday party for grandson on Thursday night.  I generally have
PRVC's first Thursday in family's list of dates to avoid.  This one
slipped through and is an attempt to get around a really busy and
disconnected weekend.  It is also being thrown in a local bowling
alley.  So I will miss all the PVRC reparte' and AA4XX's presentation.

To clean up an ongoing story about my new 160 antenna (and folded
counterpoise) getting into the neighbor's and my UVerse, it is only
fair to report AT&T's efforts:

They replaced the buried drops from pole to customer premises for both
myself and neighbor Mike next door.  They replaced the 3800 series
gateways with 3801's, a new, and as yet fairly scarce gateway.  In my
house, they moved the gateway from upstairs to 15 feet of the external
drop termination box (NID) and converted the cat5 gateway run to
isolated coax.

Replacing the ancient buried drop cables with new buried shielded made
a huge difference in the strength of the VDSL signal and the
"overhead" capacity to use for forward error correction.

The end result of this was that running 1.5k on 160 and 80 only caused
corrected blocks and individual carrier's bit reductions (aka
notching) as reported by a non-AT&T realtime gateway monitoring
program, and at BOTH our houses. No TV freezes, no phone or internet
drops, no gateway panic resets.  This even with the 80m antenna close
to my house. As a matter of fact, the depth of bit rate notching is
deeper at Mike's house and he's on the opposite side of my house from
the 80m halfwave L.  That's pretty good for a VDSL2 system that uses
discrete carriers every 13 kHz from 247 to 8000+ kHz.

It's very easy to criticize, and we hear plenty of those stories, but
little of when someone gets it right.  Kudos to AT&T's W2TTT who is
building up a program to handle these issues more quickly and get the
right answers into 1st level tech support's book of canned questions.

73 and see you all next time.

Guy.

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:28 AM, KAZeringue <kazeringue at aol.com> wrote:
> Greetings fellow contestcenti....
>
> The PVRC NC East Chapter will hold it April meeting on Thursday April 7th.
>
> Current information available indicates there will be another evening of
> sea stories, tales of daring-do, 807 and edibles consumption, capped off
> with a program by AA4XX titled "Exploits of a QRP operator".
>
> NOTE: The program title is mine, not AA4XX's.  So as always, the world
> renowned accuracy of el escribano improductivo should be considered when
> weighing the veracity of these communications.  [Just be glad I don't
> handle traffic.]
>
> For those of you missing the Poisson d'Avril, you can check out google's
> annual entry here:
> http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html
>
> Who knows - you might even enjoy the evening.  Stranger things have come
> to pass.
>
> 74 de w4kaz, el escribano improductivo
> [because "74" is like "11" on the volume control]
>
>
>
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