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The Holidays

Locale: Blooomington, Illinois

Weeks of: December 21 & 28, 2020

         It's been a relaxing two weeks here.  I spent it working with a teammate in Schaumburg last week, learning a little about a new course.  There is A LOT to learn for this class though, so it will be awhile.  A little about this course and the product covered in it.  A customer can purchase additional equipment for their radio system, and properly configured, it will allow their Cell Phones to communicate with users on their radios.  A little extra info here too.  A cell phone is really a radio, but it operates differently, and in a different frequency band that our 2-way radios, so it's impossible for someone on their cell phone to make a call on our radio networks.  This optional equipment ties the  two types of system together.  How?  Once the call is received from the cell phone, the system converts it to digital (1's and 0's), then puts it on a network.  Since it's all digital, as long as there's a network connection, the call can be received by radios operating in their frequency band, which convert it back to audio that we can hear.  So despite being in two different frequency bands, despite using non-compatible signaling schemes, by tying the two systems together over a network, communication can occur.  So I have to learn all the in's and out's of this system, how it works, is connected together, and how to configure/maintain & troubleshoot it.

         This past week I used my time to complete final edits on that course I learned (and heavily edited) back in March.  The course materials I've been using were 'okay' at least, but really needed a good sprucing up.  That's been done, I've double and triple checked the sequence of doing the Microsoft Excel exercises, and feel it's ready for others to use.  Now all we need to do, is get them qualified.  At least they'll have better course materials than I did to start with, plus recordings of classes I deliver in January using these materials.  We'll see what happens.

In Closing

         I will spend the weekend at home before going to Florida on January 2^nd for a class next week.  After that,  I am home for about five weeks (as of now), delivering classes from my basement all but one of those weeks.  Til next time, be good to yourselves and those you love, and WRITE!