'Final' Day of training.. Think I have become more tired as the week has gone on.

Boredom.. Tomorrow is wrap up day and testing. It's interesting to see how this all comes together. Taking circuits, and such and bringing them, building routes and call handling. Building both in/out bound call handling and such. Seems once you have truck working as it is suppose, you copy it and update it with the new truck details, and poof, it's all set.

So much more VoIP to learn.. But getting there... Find it also interesting that some sites will have FreePBX as well to address ADMIN type calls.

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Went to dinner with @gjacobse

It was good to get out and enjoy a good Chicago Pie - wow... should have gotten the Medium as we brought HALF of it back..

So much for the diet,.. oh wait,.. wasn't on one.

@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

In hospital since last Thursday, likely here for a while yet.

ACK - sorry to hear that. What's going on?

@jimmy9008 said in Small colo infrastructure - rack layout feedback:

@gjacobse said in Small colo infrastructure - rack layout feedback:

@jimmy9008 said in Small colo infrastructure - rack layout feedback:

@pete-s
No in rack UPS?

not really needed in a Colo - as it will have (well it should anyway) Dual sourced feeds, and full facility UPS / Isolation / Generator.

I missed the Colo part so that makes sense. Just a thought anyway.

I agree. if it were not in a Colo - def need a UPS

@jimmy9008 said in Small colo infrastructure - rack layout feedback:

@pete-s
No in rack UPS?

not really needed in a Colo - as it will have (well it should anyway) Dual sourced feeds, and full facility UPS / Isolation / Generator.

@scottalanmiller said in Grounding is 'no joke':

Glad you are all right.

Same here. Had it not been for all the grounding - it would have been worse, hardware wise - and who knows what else.

My truck - well the headlights at least - can been seen, left side of the lot, third vehicle.

Ground is no joke... and when your office requires towers and radios - it's not a matter of IF you will ever get hit,.. but WHEN you get hit by lightning...

The PSOC - Public Safety Operations Center and PSAPs - Public Safety Answer Points generally will have a transceiver tower attached.

In the building I work in,.. There is a serious level of grounding and isolation involved. In the PSAP of my county, there is next to nothing that electrically enters the building. The radios and tower is completely isolated from the main building. Everything is grounded. Door frames, Conduit, Cable management systems, HVAC, water,... everything.

There is a running ground, or as was termed today, a HALO ground. Ground bars are 1/2" x 2" x 8" with multiple points, and 0 AWG wire all terminated to ground to protect the center(s).

That said - a storm cell passed through the city last night... And it's caused quite a bit of issue for the PSOC.

LEX18 News at 6

One dispatcher was on a call at the time when it happened, and the audio feed recorded her reaction - and she was taken to the hospital..

@scottalanmiller said in MangoCon 2019:

We are heating up for some good attendance

Oh in that case, I suppose I should avoid attending... You know how JB hates Fireball...