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Global Warming and Greenhouse Effect Misnomers

1st, let’s admit that to say anything against the beaten path on this can bring much trouble for yourself as it has been made a political issue nearly from the beginning.

2nd, This post should NOT be posted in “THEORY” but probably in the “MYTHS BUSTED” section if we only look at the real science that was out there before it ever became a issue to the general public’s eyes. I will hold my opinions to the end of the post.

3rd, For background, you should know that I do consider myself a environmentalist as a form of personal practice and do not preach to others how they should do things unless they ask. Meaning, for example, that I do not use chemicals in my house or yard unless I have explored other means of doing whatever it is I’m trying to do. Much like a diet, it is a […]

Real Time Travel Is Not Possible

It is a touchy thing to go against the grain of so much hyped theory of famous people within which many other theories have been based and so much money is poured down a endless waste of effort by many who are considered “smart”. Basing new theories on a improper understanding of a well known theory does not make it so no matter how famous you are or the “wow factor” you present.

Let me do that touchy thing and dispelling any idea that real time travel has any remote possibility.

Most of the “smart” folks start off by siting Einstein’s theories that they themselves are not sure to understand or they would not be making such a statement that real time travel was possible.

For a simple fact that what Einstein was describing was no more than a similarity to the DOPPLER EFFECT of sound is to radio waves […]

ID and Tail Msg Recorder via app_rpt

If you got here from a search engine, you “will need” to read the beginning to understand how to use this info by going to http://themidnightengineer.com/category/ham-amateur-radio/app_rpt/m-e-toys-for-app_rpt/m-e-toys-1st-step/

Do not proceed unless you read this in it’s entirety. Make back-up files before editing anything. I offer no support. Use at your own risk.

We shall start with the ivr.conf custom extension file with our toy, recording and selecting between 2 system ID’s and 5 selectable Tail messages, 3 selectable aux msgs via the repeater system:

aux msgs are still just tail messages. I named them differently to separate purpose.

So I can keep ecom messages stored there and turn them into rotation when needed.

There is no dual rotation between them. One at a time based on the “tailmessagelist=” in rpt.conf for both tmsg and auxmsg.

First, make a directory under /etc/asterisk called “msg”

/etc/asterisk/msg and change ownership of directory […]

IP Address Readback via command

Do not proceed unless you read this in it’s entirety. Make back-up files before editing anything. I offer no support. Use at your own risk.

Here is a IP address readback by command. This has been set to route to speak-ip before the extension is played-back. Look at the code and you will understand how simple it is. The difference between this and the one that may have been shipped with your default acid install files is that it is completely quite. Just the ip is red back over the air. No dial tone, no ct. ; [ivrmenu] ;the beginning menu sorts and routes extension to a new stanza ; pre-evaluate extensions and route to new stanza past error trap ; The first […]

Toys For app_rpt (acid)

Well, it is about time for me to begin posting some of the toys I have built for app_rpt.

I have quite a few so I shall show them in a way that they will be organized as a whole.

You may take from what I have done and change them to work your purpose in your own way but I will cation you, when I have posted them all, you will wish you had some organization to it all.

I will only be posting one at a time. I will post as much info as I can but offer no support. Please get/use a copy of the asterisk manual to understand more about how many of the things here are accomplished.

Some of you more familiar with asterisk might ask why I did not do things in other ways and the short answer to that is that app_rpt has […]

App-rpt resources on the web

These are a list of helpful resources on the web.

I’ll add to it from time to time.

System Admin Guide http://kd3su.us/allStar/acid-sysadmin.pdf

Most important link for info for reference is – http://ohnosec.org/drupal/

For help with app_rpt, jump onto the email reflector.

– http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users

Download the centos/app_rpt package https://allstarlink.org/

Source Code SVN:

Source Asterisk http://svn.ohnosec.org/svn/projects/allstar/astsrc-1.4.23-pre/trunk

Source Limey http://svn.ohnosec.org/svn/projects/allstar/limey-linux/trunk/

Source ACID http://svn.ohnosec.org/svn/projects/allstar/acid/trunk/

App_Rpt for Beagle Board Black ( BBB ) by WA3DSP-Doug

http://www.crompton.com/hamradio/BeagleBoneBlackAllstar/BeagleBoneBlack.pdf

ADD-ON Toys and Apps

A WX Alert Script for ACID http://wxscript.byrg.net/installation

A collection of apps by K0KN http://www.qsl.net/k0kn/scripts.html

Sometime by winter 2014, I will post many apps/toys I have built for app_rpt

Writing the how-to’s can take some time. …73

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