Sun, 24 Jul 2005 23:34:30 +1000
Speedy Sunday
Well what a jam packed weekend (and a Friday) that was.
Didn't get up to much on Friday apart from having double PE at the golf place out Epson.
On Saturday, in the morning I went to work. In the afternoon I continued construction of my dish. I ended up fully running the conduit for the cables and mounting the dish on the pole. Crawling under a house with about 50 cm head room, 50 billion central heating ducts and a bunch of spiders chasing you isn't fun at all. Also, yay for head torches with super bright LEDs.
Today, I spent the morning on top of a big hill (so big it looked like it was about 3/4 of the height of Mt Alexander which was in the not-so-far-away horizon) in Vaughn Springs at the Victorian Orienteering Team Selection Trials. After running/walking up and down quite steep hills for about an hour, I was labeled as a reserve member of the team. These trials were to select the team that travels to Tasmania for the Australian champs in September.
In the afternoon I went back to constructing my dish. I managed to get the LNB (the actual 'antenna') arms bolted on and the LNB in place as well as finishing up the cabling. All that's left is to crimp on the connectors for the receiver and the LNB, and then start positioning the dish and set all the angles.
On a parting note, when I login to my server I get greeted with a random quote. Here's the last one I got, which is so very true for a lot of us:
"Sometimes when you least expect it, love will tap you on the shoulder... and ask you to move out of the way because it still isn't your turn."
Didn't get up to much on Friday apart from having double PE at the golf place out Epson.
On Saturday, in the morning I went to work. In the afternoon I continued construction of my dish. I ended up fully running the conduit for the cables and mounting the dish on the pole. Crawling under a house with about 50 cm head room, 50 billion central heating ducts and a bunch of spiders chasing you isn't fun at all. Also, yay for head torches with super bright LEDs.
Today, I spent the morning on top of a big hill (so big it looked like it was about 3/4 of the height of Mt Alexander which was in the not-so-far-away horizon) in Vaughn Springs at the Victorian Orienteering Team Selection Trials. After running/walking up and down quite steep hills for about an hour, I was labeled as a reserve member of the team. These trials were to select the team that travels to Tasmania for the Australian champs in September.
In the afternoon I went back to constructing my dish. I managed to get the LNB (the actual 'antenna') arms bolted on and the LNB in place as well as finishing up the cabling. All that's left is to crimp on the connectors for the receiver and the LNB, and then start positioning the dish and set all the angles.
On a parting note, when I login to my server I get greeted with a random quote. Here's the last one I got, which is so very true for a lot of us:
"Sometimes when you least expect it, love will tap you on the shoulder... and ask you to move out of the way because it still isn't your turn."
