There are many questions we all share about life... the most common are: Is that lump under the new carpet really Billies lost hamster ? Is kohlrabi better for your health than Rutabaga ? and, How does WiFi work ?
Here is a partial answer.. We all use cell phones, watch TV, listen to the radio, and have a tablet or laptop to surf the web and support Amazon with. All use those invisible radio waves that no one can see... spy and action movies showed us how smoke exposes invisible laser beams in security systems, we mentally associate electricity with wires, and, almost everyone has made a fool out of themselves trying to align a roof top tv antenna or a set of rabbit ears to catch something we cannot see, or, at least, have walked around phone pointing in the air... looking for a signal... embarrassing isn't it?
If you have been around this RV Park/Harbor/Neighborhood RV Wifi stuff at all, you know they mostly advertise "Free Internet" in name only, and ours here was not much better, the Park owner wanted it investigated and fixed ! ... so last week, you saw me looking for our Dena Lane WiFi outside of your rig, and all around the Park, it has leaked out, disappeared, evaporated? maybe got spilled, or is simply not there at all... which led me to question how do you catch something you can't see ? much less fix it ?
All of these radio waves that are bombarding us are of no concern (since we cannot see them), but, we rely on them for our microwave, Doctors Xray, on our boats radar, and for all sorts of telecommunications, only when they do not show up for work, do we miss them, like for the TV at night.
On top of our office building is a white coffee can sized "radio" it gets our Internet signal from an optic cable (which is a deeply guarded secret involving trolls, dragons and other mysterious things), the further you get away from the radio the harder it is to hear it, so we put a microphone in the yard to hear the "big" radio with,attached to "another" radio to play what we hear... again.... as you get further away from radio #2, you again cannot hear too good, so you add in another microphone and radio, in our case we have six radios rebroadcasting whatever the "big" radio says... "that", is our "ParadisePointRV internet.
Our microphones were too far away from the "big" radio to hear well, so, we are adding in more microphones and radios, and creating a daisy-chain of repeating whatever the big radio says so we can all hear. This is tricky, because when you walk behind an aluminum/fiberglass RV it blocks or redirects the sound, in short, we are trying to do the drive-in movie trick for each space having its own speaker (radio), simple, huh?
We have ordered some equipment, and will be on the repair over the next few weeks, so bear with us.
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For some nostalgia, take this 3 video tour...
https://www.loopnet.com/property/42365-dena-ln-port-orford-or-97465/41015-M35153/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YikQKIquBUo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMv6vdp82h0
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Have a safe holiday !
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