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Friday, November 30, 2012

Better Off Left Alone

     Update on the photo uploading issue mentioned in my previous blog entry.  It appears that deep in the bowels of the Google sacred castle, there is a dungeon filled with computer gurus who have decided to reinvent the wheel.  They figured a round wheel can and will be perfected.  The google version of the wheel is shaped like a triangle, and the sudden thud heard around the world was the wheel set into motion and landing on one of its flat sides.  Actually, the noise was from Google falling flat on its face!  Many of Google's blooogers are experiencing the same SNAFU that I have experienced and some have tried to circumvent the issue by taking drastic measures only to be regretting their actions.  Some bloggers claim to have email & Facebook addresses for the powers that be, but it's one of those cases where the lights are on but nobody's home!

     Meanwhile, back on the ranch, Mother Nature has flexed her muscle once again here in Paradise.  Today's forecast is to be followed by 5 more days of the same - windy with passing squalls.  Windy is sustained 20 knots and gusting to 25.  Translation:  not a good idea to dinghy ashore unless you like a salt spray shower.  No problem.  Once you get to shore, the passing rain squall will rinse off the salt.  What about the trip back to the boat?  You catch my drift. These next 5 days will not fall into the category of being 315 days.
     As a counter measure to being "trapped" on the boat for an extended period, I have decided to do absolutely nothing today.  Then, when I am totally bored out of my mind tomorrow, I can start a new book or rebuild a few water pumps, or figure out why our VHF radio transmits but does not receive.  The boat list goes on and on and on and.................  Or I can sit and wait out the weather, just like I'm going to wait for Google to return the blogging world to its normal configuration when it was better off left alone.

3 comments:

Bill K said...

I can't help myself, Are you sure the volume is turned up on your VHF???

It has happened before. LOL

Bill Kelleher

Big Run said...

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the input but we've tried everything. We can transmit and recieve with another boat at 1000', at 3 miles my transmission is 5 X 5 but I can't receive. Fortunately we have 2 other backup VHF units in the pilothouse with limited range because of antenna rating (3db), but the one in question is my workhorse Icom M604 with 9db antenna. I desperately need that unit back in service.

Thanks, Bob

Bill K said...

Bob,
Ask around and see if anybody has a SWR meter to check the antenna.

Bill Kelleher

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