Re: Z-Wave RF range

["Robert L Bass" <robertbass1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> Actually, they do.  That is very prominent
>> in all of the literature I've read  on Z-Wave.
>> It isn't considered a weak point but a feature.
>
> A feature? Ahem, well, ok.

That's not hype though.  The mesh network is indeed a feature.  It represents a major improvement over standard RF (non-repeating)
technology.

> But it closes your sales funnel towards
> most people who don't want so much
> automation right now. Like us ;-)

Not really.  I don't specialize in lighting control products.  In fact, I only recently decided to start carrying them.  Over the
next few weeks I plan to add several lines of Z-Wave plus UPB to my website.  I sell lots of HA systems but I really don't want to
sell X10 and I won't even consider Insteon due to the company's behavior.

> AFAIR he had a hard time stopping
> before hitting a bridge pillar and dinged
> the left wing a bit.

Coincidentally, I just spoke to my cousin this afternoon.  He told me he's really PO'd at one of his flying colleagues.  Apparently
the guy has twice recently left the front cowling snap (Gruman Tiger) unsecured during flight and this week he pushed the airplane
into the hangar with one of the doors 8 feet in.  He bent the aeleron and now they need to check for possible hidden damage.  At
least he didn't try to snap-roll a 737.  Heh, heh, heh.  Imagine someone dumb enough to tell such a lie.

>> I heard a story (don't know if it's true
>> or not) about Frankfurt, Germany's
>> ATC being really rude.  As the story
>> has it, sometime in the late 40's a US
>> pilot landed his 4-prop airliner, crossed
>> the hold short line and stopped to
>> check the airport chart (the taxiways
>> were something of a maze at the time).
>>
>> An angry ground controller barked,
>> "American Boeing ######!  Vat are you do-ink"?
>>
>> Pilot: "Ah, sir, I've stopped my airplane."
>>
>> ATC: "Vhy haff you shtopped your
>> airplane zair"?
>>
>> Pilot: "Ah, sir, I'm checking the chart
>> to see how to get top the ramp."
>>
>> ATC: "Haff you neffer been to
>> Frankfurt before???"
>>
>> Pilot: "Ah, yes sir.  We came by several
>> times in '42 but we didn;t stop."
>
> Usually they are friendly I heard. The Air
> Force base is right next to FRA. Or at
> least used to be.

Well, yes.  Now they're our allies.
We bailed them out for 40 years
while the USSR was around.

>> I'd be a little skeptical of that information
>> if I were you.  The biggest problem is
>> moisture from precipitation coming through --  not moisture accumulating underneath.
>> In fact, if the attic moisture barrier above
>> the ceiling is properly installed there really shouldn't be a condensation issue for the
>> wood beneath the roof.
>
>> The problem with westerns is that victims
>> always get right up again.  It teaches
>> children that there are no real consequences
>> of violence.  One amazing thing in this
>> country is that the FCC gets its panties in
>> a knot over a 2-second flash of an aging rock star's bosom but no one even bats an eye
>> over all movies like Matrix and Jurassic Park
>> is considered children's fare.  Go figure.
>
> Not in the really good ones. My all time
> favorite is "Once Upon a Time in the West".
> Enio Moricone's music alone is worth it.

Excellent!

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Regards,
Robert L Bass

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