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1 hour ago, mikebell said:

Hopefully it will reduce the number of police victims on Sukhumvit.

They  often set up a stop heading south very near to those red and white barriers seen in the photo above in the mornings

then in the evening going north at the police box just before the Ambassador hotel...they seem to like "white faces"  but will stop  Thais not wearing a helmet too.

3 hours ago, funlovinkid said:

Thanks for the feedback.  The guy in the truck you describe above, is he specifically interested in this sort of electronic waste?  If yes, I suppose that means there's a market for the stuff somewhere.  Also, I'm wondering what area you happen to live in?

Anything of any value at all ( glass,metal,plastic,electronics ,fridges etc) left in or by a rubbish bin will be taken by the army of scavengers in no time at all,   the bins around my area ( Jomtien) are  sorted through many times per day.

And there seems not to be any  government run rubbish tip/recycling centre  in the Pattaya area ( if there is its secret) hence the  building rubble old toilets,sofas  strewn all over many vacant land plots.

9 minutes ago, joskeshake said:

This was the time they had there own pier about 100 meters from WS ?

I don't think it was their own pier  but there was a rickety old wooden pier very close to "the Beer Garden"

They used to  anchor in Pattaya bay then  smaller boats would ferry the sailors onto Pattaya beach where there where banners and a welcoming committee ( of bar girls)

I read somewhere that they  will not be allowed shore leave to Pattaya city  but will still come ashore to do  the charity stuff.

4 hours ago, Orton Rd said:

sounds like children of god

we are all  children of Paradise ????

I've been doing a bit of scanning with a RTL2832U   DVB-FM-DAB  "dongle"  and SDR console software

but seem to be in a radio black spot, very little activity  except for  the concierge at Ambassador hotel  @ 245.5 and 245.3125

even made an antenna which helped a bit.

try these guys

https://www.google.com/maps/@12.9648743,100.8975564,3a,56.5y,105.64h,89.49t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sDMDLh-Xbx_8dSr5UDaNoeg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DDMDLh-Xbx_8dSr5UDaNoeg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D83.257187%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

I have a Vstarcam G43s   at first I thought you have to use the Eye 4 program  and did set it up reluctantly   but kept searching for different viewing methods,  came across this  software form the Vtarcam website that finds the camera

app-find-vstarcam.zip

that gave me the web page

http://192.168.1.9:9090    user = admin ( cant change that)  pass = ( your password ) default is 888888

view recordings @   http://192.168.1.9:9090/recordplay.htm

I set the camera to a static IP address 192.168.1.9  and also set my router to always assign  192.168.1.9 to the camera

RTSP  server doesn't work with all viewing software some say its not a real RTSP server

in VLC   open network stream     rtsp://admin:your password [email protected]:10554/udp/av0_0     there is also a sub stream (lower resolution)                  @  rtsp://admin:your password [email protected]:10554/udp/av0_1

On my android phone 2 apps work well to view the  camera stream one is called tinyCam FREE   and the other Onvifer  which allows  left /right up/down control of the camera...these don't send you a message on  motion detection and viewing outside of your home network require a bit more "jiggery pokery"   setting up a  dynamic DNS address 

I use  http://www.duckdns.org  and then forwarding ports at your router

There is also some hacking vulnerability with these cameras  one allows an attacker to  "crash"  the camera  requiring  removal of power to reset..not sure if mine has been  attacked but it has become unresponsive 2 times requiring power reset.

Yes I often get blacklisted from my UK (BT) email server  because the IP address I'm assigned by ToT internet provider has been put into the https://www.spamhaus.org/ list of bad addresses.????

2 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

You forgot 'Gowlee' & 'Kairk'

Knee grow ?

15 hours ago, scottiejohn said:

I have tried that TX location link you provided and followed your instructions but cannot get a meaningful result.

Works for me..but obviously I don't know your exact location and it looks like  some parts of Chaingmai are not covered which is understandable with the mountains

no coverage

Yes put the "booster" as close to the antenna as possible ( in the dry ) as @lopburi3 mentions moving the antenna to a higher location and a clear line of sight to the transmitter might be enough on its own...there is also maybe a possibility of mobile phone signal interference..the  ID-U30LTE  "booster"  takes care of that.

On 2/4/2020 at 2:01 PM, crickets said:

I think its called "pandering."

Giant pandering ?

9 minutes ago, maprao said:

I remember the days when  these were the only boats you could see in the bay.

I remember seeing a US navy Aircraft carrier  quite far offshore  in Pattaya bay  maybe 1997 or 98 ?

3 minutes ago, Boomer6969 said:

Maybe you should purge some of your torrent files? ????

I like to keep them for as long as possible  as another layer of backup..the drive is 2 terabytes but running about 90 percent full.

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
Last login: Sun Feb  2 18:45:15 2020 from 192.168.1.5
root@Pi256nas:~# df
Filesystem      1K-blocks       Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root        13267568    3614304   8956256  29% /
devtmpfs           111780          0    111780   0% /dev
tmpfs              116104          0    116104   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs              116104       5176    110928   5% /run
tmpfs                5120          4      5116   1% /run/lock
tmpfs              116104          0    116104   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p6      66528      22683     43845  35% /boot
/dev/sda1      1953479868 1831146580 122333288  94% /mnt/MyBook2
tmpfs               23220          0     23220   0% /run/user/0

I'm in a bad reception area  but have been getting good results with this antenna

https://www.lazada.co.th/catalog/?q=BETA+Digital+TV+Antenna+(HD-37E)

And a signal booster  with built in  mobile phone bandpass filter

http://www.idea-sat.com/id-u30lte/

this used to be sold on Lazada but seems not to be anymore.

for pointing direction please see here

1 hour ago, fforest1 said:

All the boats are in the bay because they got kicked out of Bali-High to be replaced by a big blue EMPTY parking lot ( that was promised to be made into a park)...........So its not the boat operators fault that they are all parked in the bay..

Maybe a roller blading park ??

The Russians dont seem to care for deckchairs and umbrellas,seeing as they are about the only ones left using the beach does it matter much ?  but yes still a crazy decision.

@Guderian  I found Satellite map from 2008 A nice big bit of land

then 2009 the steel girders appear but never gets completed.

a photo not mine

2020 plot cleared again ?

On 12/10/2019 at 9:40 AM, 007cableguy said:

I think the Ocean one was scam from the start anyone who believed that a 90+ floor building was ever going to be built must be mad !

Now they gonna build  151 floors in the same spot ! ????

2 minutes ago, Guderian said:

I guess that it was also a leftover from the 1997 crash?

No that failed steel girder frame was much later..can't remember the developers name but maybe  a Keanu Reeves 3 part trilogy.

@DoctorG  you have a vivid imagination !