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12 minutes ago, robsamui said:

If the bike is from another province then this really messes things up, as the transfer cannot be done on Samui - but see below.

From my experiences  ( not on Samui )   you have to inform the  DLT that you want to  "move"  the vehicle to another province

for example it has Bangkok plates  and you dont want to go all the way to Bangkok to change name in the green book  so you go to the Samui DLT and ask for it to be "moved" to Samui  and change names, depending on various things they  might do it that day or  more likely ask you to come back  another day to pick up the book with new owner name and new Samui number plate.

Using the "agent"  to do it all for you is a very worthwhile option    unless you have infinite patience, time and fancy a challenge.

22 minutes ago, robsamui said:

The tax on the bike is not more than 3 years out of date.

I thought it was longer than that  15 years ???

...they definitely want all the back tax paid and an inspection done before they will transfer names.

1 part cement 3 parts sand 3 parts aggregate

So 1 bucket cement 3 bucket s of sand and 3 of stones
Mix up in a big plastic bucket all available from the local hardware shop.....remember to have 3 shredded wheat for breakfast mixing by hand is hard work.

I thought that only Bangkok / Chengwattana  can do conversion  from Tourist to Non-O  ??

experts will reply soon no doubt.

2 hours ago, Sheryl said:

It affects not only him but the work of many other people as he is in charge of monitoring/evaluation for a large project.

Could he not ask the project owners to help out with the payments ?

6 minutes ago, tolsti said:

I believe it is another project to do exactly what they did at the Walking St end of Beach Rd.

More sewage     algae bloom outlets ?

There used to be a pollution monitoring truck parked on  the very busy second road  near to Mike Shopping mall

the results always showed as very good / good  for that monitoring station   

Admittedly beach road can be a bit dodgy in certain places in the early hours of the morning.

I have seen many families  walking along walking street with kids and pushchairs its probably/arguably   one of the safest places to be  as the road is closed to traffic.

18 minutes ago, ScotBkk said:

family Nightlife

family nightlife ???   I thought most family stuff was done during the day    suppose you could go to see a late movie and get out of the theatre about 1AM is that late enough ?

12 minutes ago, morrobay said:

No just the opposite

Yes your are correct   my understanding of an inversion... was inverted   

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In meteorology, an inversion is a deviation from the normal change of an atmospheric property with altitude. It almost always refers to a "temperature inversion", i.e. an increase in temperature with height, or to the layer ("inversion layer") within which such an increase occurs.^[1]

An inversion can lead to pollution such as smog being trapped close to the ground, with possible adverse effects on health. An inversion can also suppress convection by acting as a "cap". If this cap is broken for any of several reasons, convection of any moisture present can then erupt into violent thunderstorms. Temperature inversion can notoriously result in freezing rain in cold climates.

I have seen a few ( very few )  back packers around   and an increasing number of families,  cheap rooms can still be found  500 baht  upwards per night...there are an increasing number of venues catering to the family around the Pattaya/Jomtien area

bars and gogos are being squeezed out slowly but surely.

They did install some rather large ( about 2 meter diameter ) drainage pipes on the seaside of the road in the early stages of construction

how they are going to keep all the rubbish,  sand and silt from clogging the pipes is anyone's guess.

There was also talk of  doing underpasses at  the North and South junctions  !!!   so chaos for 10 more years 

Its rather misty today in Jomtien   I think there is  a phenomenon called  inversion  going on   cold air  higher in the atmosphere traps  the warmer and stagnant air closer to the ground.

13 minutes ago, onemorechang said:

Anyone know what the correct toll charge will be in the end ?

Never seen any mention of a toll charge.

1 minute ago, khunpin said:

Are we talking about the underpath Sukhumvit / Central Rd.?

Yes    Its caused massive  disruption for years,  lots of business have been effected  some like Index and Namchai have  moved to new locations

some of the smaller shops with no customers for 2 years ( because no where to park )  have gone completely.

@mikebell   latest report I read said it was 70% done

"Will not flood for sure"

800 million +  Baht     started on 15 November 2014   scheduled to finish  1st February 2017

http://manager.co.th/Local/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9590000099835

@kano85 have you changed/serviced any of the engine internals  like the  timing chain , piston and rings,  big end bearings ?

180,000 KM's is a lot for a 250cc engine.

Do true still blur out  cigarettes, alcohol bottles, guns ( only when pointed at someone) and wobbly bits ?

TOT  IPTV  service is worth a mention  

http://www.totiptv.com/Product/Channel/ByPackage.aspx

 I believe 3BB have a similar service but with less/no foreign channels ?

15 hours ago, LongTimeLurker said:

^ I tried autosearch which did nothing. Then tried manual search, and then added transponders using the frequency and symbol rates shown in the link you provided.

 

Nothing found

Thats quite strange  I would have expected it to find  something...does the receiver show  any signal/quality %  while it scans ?

if  is there a search option called  blind scan  or power scan try that  it can take a long time  but should get some results.

If you have no signal/quality  then  there could be some problem with  LNB settings  check  for power   13/18 v to LNB  and   check the LNB local oscillator frequency   often called LNB frequency    common values are  5150 Mhz  ( 5.15 GHz) for C band LNB's

For Ku band LNB's  common frequencies are   9750 Mhz  ( 9.75 GHz)    10600 Mhz  (10.6 GHz)  and  10750 Mhz  (10.75 GHz)

if you have the  Local oscillator frequency wrongly set   the actual frequency searched  will not be what is reported by the reciever

so it can miss  everything.

If you can do a blind scan  it should find something  even with wrong Local oscillator frequency  but  the receiver will report channel frequencies incorrectly  leading to much confusion

Also don't confuse LNB ( Local oscillator frequency )  for transponder frequency    you set the LNB frequency  and once its correct  leave it alone...

If it didn't find any channels then I think you did something wrong

15 hours ago, LongTimeLurker said:

I got into the menus and explored the transponder settings but got nowhere with any searches.

When you say got no where do you mean   it didn't find any channels or did it find channels but the screen was black ie encrypted.

before spending more money on new receiver and card  I would  carry on trying to get  something with the old setup first.

I  vaguely  remember that CTH was also broadcasting on Thaicom ( maybe only C band cant remember )

so could be worth trying to tune  for channels from Thaicom  maybe your dish is pointing there instead ?

http://www.lyngsat.com/Thaicom-5-6-8.html

12272 Horizontal   on Thaicom should give  lots of free channels according to Lyngsat

Would be best if the whole house had a  hard wired CAT5 or better  LAN cable to every room

but if you like to use WiFi   and worry about signal strength then  look at some Wifi  access point/extenders/repeaters.

http://www.dlink.co.th/product/dap-1360-n300-wireless-access-point-range-extender/

5 minutes ago, cardinalblue said:

the soi dogs in the back pissing on the unattended food crates

The ones with rabies ????      the soi dog lovers will be along shortly  to point out that  dogs where here before us, are completely harmless never attack anyone and if we don't like it go home.

what about the Thai people who are already home maybe they will at long last do something about the  dog problem ?

No problem,  good luck with your searching.