[Phillip Beall]

All,

Kathy and I are on the Starlink waiting list. Local terrestrial options where we live are marginal on speed, very high cost and do not have back up power. Elon Musk has a setup that appears will be more reliable. Yes, we pay more than Starlink costs for a fraction of the speed and reliability. The reliability part really drives us crazy. That is important not least for the fact that we host the Broadcastify feed for the Club from our home. Just when Lamar County listeners want to utilize it, several times power has gone down and…BAM! – No Broadcastify because the local ISPs are so cheap they won’t even put a little UPS on their back-haul radio sites. OK, failure to grow and change leads to opportunities for innovation. As soon as Starlink ships our unit I will start posting updates to the forum so that people can see benchmarks comparing our current provider, as well as reliability reports from a network monitoring component we have, with Starlink.

In the meantime, if you find occasional media reports of people wondering if they are seeing a UFO when they are seeing Starlink “trains” of satellites, you might want to take a look at http://www.findstarlink.com. That site will give you dates and times when you will have the ability to see them. In our experience it has usually been around 9pm, so if you are early to bed like us you will miss them. But if you are up and can see the western horizon you might be able to catch one. It is simply the sunlight below the horizon reflecting off of their devices in a string as they are deployed and then put into position.

Enjoy,

Phillip

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