Welcome / open talk

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.

Welcome to the first Contributor of the Week thread for the new decade!

This week we're recognizing, Sussamb!

Sussamb has been a member of POI Factory for over 5 years!

We're recognizing him this week for his assistance in a Garmin reboot thread and his help with multiple Garmin EU threads.

Thank you, Sussamb!

~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

Has anyone been affected by this?

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2020/january/14...

Today I pulled into the car wash, haven 't been for over 6 mos. I noticed that on the selection screen was my license plate and state.

So what.

Yes, my car is registered/insured no big deal.

Just that it would seem that in a car wash such technology would be cost prohibitive.

Asked the guy what it was for, and he said we sell that info for $1/plate. WOW!

The NSA has discovered a critical vulnerability in Windows 10 and reported it to Microsoft (https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/aa20-014a). Microsoft has included a patch to fix it in the January cumulative update released yesterday 1/14/2020. You may want to apply this update sooner rather than later.

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.

Taking one more week to honor the Contributors of the Year.
We will resume posting Contributors of the Week, starting next Monday!

~Angela