Welcome / open talk

This week we're recognizing, Soberbyker!

Soberbyker has been a member of POI Factory for nearly 9 years!

We've appreciated his initiative in starting discussions on a wide variety of subjects. I think it's fair to say our community members tend to be above average in many ways and I enjoy reading about the different experiences and perspectives we're able to explore together.

This is the place to talk about things that are not GPS related.

This thread will be closed on Monday and a new one will be opened.

Happy Birthday to our POI Factory founder, Jonathan (JM)!

~Angela

Spot the station.

Anyone else go out and watch the space station whiz by? Wifey and I do, not sure what the fascination is but we catch it whenever it's clear enough to see.

https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/

You can sign up for email alerts to be notified when it'll be crossing your area.

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While at work the other day I noticed interesting thing as a funeral procession was going down the road.

Each car in the procession had a large bright orange "FUNERAL" sign covering the license plate.

I'm guessing doing that has something to do with processions that end up going through a RLC controlled intersection.

Anyone else see something like that?

This week we're recognizing, Bdhsfz6!

Bdhsfz6 has been a member of POI Factory for eleven and a half years.

He's a frequent contributor in the discussion forums and has been particularly helpful in several Garmin oriented discussions in the last week.

Thanks for your continued quality participation in our POI Factory community, Bdhsfz6!

~Angela

This is the place to talk about things that are not GPS related.

This thread will be closed on Monday and a new one will be opened.

~Angela

I am a licensed amateur radio operator in the United States. In my pickup, I use a portable amateur radio to connect to a Rugged Spot digital hotspot. The digital hotspot gets a cellular connection from a cellular hotspot in my vehicle. Right now I run separate power cables to each device. I have noticed that the Rugged Spot has four USB ports and the cellular hotspot has one USB port.

This week we're recognizing Ralphy1!

The North American Breweries file is another of our busy ones.
I don't know about the rest of the country but in the Pacific Northwest it seems like you can't walk a block nowadays without tripping over a brewery!

Thanks for all the work you do in maintaining this file, Ralphy1!

~Angela

This is the place to talk about things that are not GPS related.

This thread will be closed on Monday and a new one will be opened.

~Angela

Hurry up and get your car painted so you will be seen by radar and of course those danged robot self-driving cars.

https://www.axalta.com/corporate/en_...year-2020.html
https://www.axalta.com/za/en_ZA/news-releases/axalta-can-you...

So now I've found out that Outlook 2010 support will end on October 13, 2020. That's nowhere near as bad as Win 7 support ending.

This week we're recognizing Diesel and Coonhunter!

Coonhunter has been a member of POI Factory for over eleven years and notified us this week about the release of Garmin Express V6.20.0.0.

This is not a GPS or POI question, so that is why I am posting in his area. I bought a DVMEGA Cast, which is an AMBE3000 based Multimode IP radio for DMR, D-Star and Fusion, which are three digital modes used on amateur radio VHF/UHF bands. I also installed a DVMEGA DVstick 30, which, as I understand it, allows the DVMEGA Cast to act as a de facto server.

This is the place to talk about things that are not GPS related.

This thread will be closed on Monday and a new one will be opened.

~Angela

Congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs and their fans for an exciting Suer Bowl win.

In danger of losing your windmill?

Maybe you can share the last place your GPS took you and if you encountered any problems, or if you used it to seek out special places to go (like Thai Food, ice cream shoppes, etc.).

Anything to keep your windmill alive.

This thread will be closed on the last day of the month and a new one will be opened.

~Angela

This is the official POI Factory Joke thread.

It will be closed on the last day of the month and a new one will be opened.

Please read the forum rules before posting.

"POI Factory is not a forum for politically charged debate.
Let's avoid topics that already have a long list of Democrat or Republican talking points or that name specific politicians."

~Angela

Our Contributors of the Week are Dutcherp5 and Macleadv!

Dutcherp5 has been updating his POI files this month and made updates to 4 of them within the last week. On one, The Marathon Fuel file, Macleadv assisted with 540 additional locations!

Thanks for the team work on behalf of our POI Factory community!

~Angela

This is the place to talk about things that are not GPS related.

This thread will be closed on Monday and a new one will be opened.

~Angela

I knew it was only a matter of time before I had a computer failure. I did not expect that it would be a result of installing "updates", but that is what happened. In December, I finally let my Win 7 Home system install a number of updates and - to my horror - watched as the computer began failing as it tried to re-boot and "configure" the updates.