On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 21:52:26 +0100, LRod wrote:

It struck me from the very beginning as a solution looking for a
problem.

The you failed to read the thread.

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:45:05 -0400, w
wrote:

On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 21:52:26 +0100, LRod wrote:

It struck me from the very beginning as a solution looking for a
problem.

The you failed to read the thread.
No, Ari, that was not a requisite to come to that understanding.

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:45:05 -0400, w
wrote:

On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 21:52:26 +0100, LRod wrote:

It struck me from the very beginning as a solution looking for a
problem.

The you failed to read the thread.

I read every post.

--
LRod

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Shamelessly whoring my website since 1999

http://www.woodbutcher.net

Proud participant of rec.woodworking since February, 1997

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:27:28 -0700, Richard Clark wrote:

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:45:05 -0400, w
wrote:

On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 21:52:26 +0100, LRod wrote:

It struck me from the very beginning as a solution looking for a
problem.

The you failed to read the thread.
No, Ari, that was not a requisite to come to that understanding.

Uh, this wasn't Ari, check your headers.
--
Drop the alphabet for email

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:14:24 -0400, Ari Silversteinn
wrote:

Uh, this wasn't Ari, check your headers.
Uh, and neither are you (as if headers proved anything)

Hi Ossama,

Hard to validate yourself when you approach us an anonymous poster
(anyone can use anything as a signature). Problem there is I can pin
any name to you, and you couldn't prove it otherwise - can you? ;-)

still lookin' for ya'
Uncle Sam

"Ari Silversteinn" wrote in message
...
On 9 Oct 2005 21:04:30 -0700, wrote:

It struck me from the very beginning as a solution looking for a
problem..

Hummmm...I haven't read any of this thread, and after seeing
the initial page, decided it wasn't worth my time..."Not related
to any certain post". I was just curious , as the thread title started
to remind me of a old "Jethro Tull" song... Resume...
MK

"Locomotive Breath"

In the shuffling madness
Of the locomotive breath,
Runs the all-time loser,
Headlong to his death.
He feels the piston scraping --
Steam breaking on his brow --
Old Charlie stole the handle and
The train won't stop going --
No way to slow down.
He sees his children jumping off
At the stations -- one by one.
His woman and his best friend --
In bed and having fun.
He's crawling down the corridor
On his hands and knees --
Old Charlie stole the handle and
The train won't stop going --
No way to slow down.
He hears the silence howling --
Catches angels as they fall.
And the all-time winner
Has got him by the balls.
He picks up Gideon's Bible --
Open at page one --
God stole the handle and
The train won't stop going --
No way to slow down.

--
I don't like the project, but I like the messenger. :-)

Cheers.

Ken

Emergency Messaging, AM/FM *On Locomotive*
 

Ari Silversteinn wrote:
On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 19:40:18 -0400, Mike Coslo wrote:


The Republicans are going to take care of all those problems! Darned
Democrats anyhow!

- Mike KB3EIA -


I won't deny it!

Now, if you want my honest assessment, I find the whole thing fraught
with ethical questions.

What if someone isn't listening to the radio when the message is
broadcast? What about the people who don't live near railroad tracks?

If this thing is to *actually* work, it would have to be space based.
Work with a database of the frequencies in use in the affected areas.
broadcast on them as the need arises. FM will be easy. AM will be some
more work. Of course you'll still have to deal with the people who
aren't listening at the moment!

Of course if it just a research project to burn up some money, then
*that* is a different subject altogether!

- Mike KB3EIA -

Emergency Messaging, AM/FM *On Locomotive*
 

I've got an idea.
How about installing flashing lights at rail road crossing, and maybe some
bells.
Ace - WH2T


"Mike Coslo" wrote in message
...
Ari Silversteinn wrote:
On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 19:40:18 -0400, Mike Coslo wrote:


The Republicans are going to take care of all those problems! Darned
Democrats anyhow!

- Mike KB3EIA -


I won't deny it!

Now, if you want my honest assessment, I find the whole thing fraught with
ethical questions.

What if someone isn't listening to the radio when the message is
broadcast? What about the people who don't live near railroad tracks?

If this thing is to *actually* work, it would have to be space based. Work
with a database of the frequencies in use in the affected areas. broadcast
on them as the need arises. FM will be easy. AM will be some more work. Of
course you'll still have to deal with the people who aren't listening at
the moment!

Of course if it just a research project to burn up some money, then *that*
is a different subject altogether!

- Mike KB3EIA -

Emergency Messaging, AM/FM *On Locomotive*
 

"Mike Coslo" wrote in message
...
Ari Silversteinn wrote:
On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 19:40:18 -0400, Mike Coslo wrote:


The Republicans are going to take care of all those problems! Darned
Democrats anyhow!

- Mike KB3EIA -


I won't deny it!

Now, if you want my honest assessment, I find the whole thing fraught with
ethical questions.

What if someone isn't listening to the radio when the message is
broadcast? What about the people who don't live near railroad tracks?

If this thing is to *actually* work, it would have to be space based. Work
with a database of the frequencies in use in the affected areas. broadcast
on them as the need arises. FM will be easy. AM will be some more work. Of
course you'll still have to deal with the people who aren't listening at
the moment!

Of course if it just a research project to burn up some money, then *that*
is a different subject altogether!

- Mike KB3EIA -

Space-based wouldn't work. You can't get a spot footprint small enough on
the earth's surface to make this do-able. Iridium comes about the closest,
but would you put up a constellation to provide the footprints and not use
it 99.999999999% of the time? :-)

Cheers.

Ken

Emergency Messaging, AM/FM *On Locomotive*
 

If you want to see an unpolite newsgroup, post a home owner message at
alt.hvac and watch it fly.

Stretch