I believe a clue can be found in the following choice quote:

I like your idea and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Seriously...

That would quickly solve all of the problems caused by money, though, wouldn't it: if people with money to spend would stop feeling entitled to receive anything in return for it... :p

Pretty sure it's eaten (and then puked back up) but my knowledge of the stuff is primarily derived from having watched Young Guns and The Doors twenty years ago (wasn't that mesc they were on, out in White Sands?) and having recently read a Jim Carey interview, so don't quote me on that.

I don't know about you but in public highschool ('91), i recall reading all about Westmoreland, the gulf of Tonkin, ho chi Minh and even Jane riding on an nva tank (what we *didn't* read about was Kennedy's resistance - and subsequent "removal" - the Golden Triangle, the cia/mafia's distribution of heroin in the inner cities during the height of the Civil Rights era, etc, etc... so I guess you're still more or less correct on a certain level). ;)

For long range, a 10ga shotgun with 3.5" (magnum) turkey loads; for short to medium ranges, a 12ga Saiga/Vepr with 20round drum loaded with either birdshot or #4 buck...

You'll likely face, at the most, a civil citation for discharging a firearm within city limits...

I wonder if my old(ish) Motorola RAZR is like that as it was the flagship phone at the time, It is still an excellent phone and it has my favorite feature - the slide out keyboard. The size and weight are worth it to me. It is able to take a SIM card too,

And it would make a good excuse to rescue the tower. He could make more selling it for scrap than he'd make selling it to me. I don't know where you live but it is just 100 USD.

That does help. It gives me some ideas and some potential motivation. The only reason I bought them was to build a cluster and I have absolutely no need for a cluster so I figured I would make one and then make another basement NAS or a media server. I already have a couple of servers down there but no media server. I don't actually have any use for a media server - that is already covered but the goal was to build a cluster, I don't really have a need or a good reason to build one. I figured it would be amusing and that maybe I would get another line put in and maybe make a web facing server. I understand that creating a LAMP stack clustered is really easy but making a clustered LAMP stack RIGHT is actually difficult. I never, I have had them for almost a year and have not done anything with them so I am really liking this plane tracking idea. With all the idiots with small planes in the area, the ones that don't do a flyover before landing their little Cessna or Pipers on water, snow, or a fairly flat field it might get some interesting results. We have those sorts of people crashing all the time. They land parallel to the waves. The hit ridges or small spaces of open water on the ice. Or, often enough they are landing effectively on someone's lawn and they very much misjudge the distance, So it might be interesting.

Looking it up is the lazy way. Is it a specific meter length required antenna? Did you have to make it? Or is it just some stereo wire taped to a T and then strung up or similar? I do have the absolute perfect tree to tape a fishing sinker to and toss it over and I am on the side of a mountain so I may do well but there's not much traffic out this way. My hand-held scanner does airplane frequencies but I seldom hear (I had actually typed here, I'm glad I preview before the preview.) anything and that has an upgraded antenna. The big scanner does the same and that has a mounted outdoor antenna. The ham does a much better job and I have a buddy who has a tower for sale, cheap, and it's 100' which is legal here. My issue with the tower is aesthetics. I have a pine that it would fit behind, mostly, but that is about 50' from the corner of the house. Do-able but there is a lot of math needed. I might see if there is a "local" ham club that will lend a hand or simply call around and hire someone so that it is right the first time. I can mix the concrete myself and fill four sonotubes and get the bolts in the right spot on my own so I will at least get my hands dirty, :D

Sorry for my doubting you. I've since been corrected and now have a better understanding. I Googled before I asked and, well, all the results in my quick scan looked like ads for carriers and the only Nexus devices I've seen are all carrier branded. Even in my quick Google the Google link looked like an ad for a carrier. My most sincere apologies are offered if you want them,

Thank you for the correction. The "Nexus branded devices..." could just as easily mean from a carrier. My Motorola is a Motorola not a US Cellular.

HOWEVER... I was still clearly mistaken and confused. I even Googled before commenting and the results seemed to indicate that they were all carrier devices, All I did was a quick scan so even the Google link looked like a Google ad for a carrier. It was/is my mistake and I thank you, again, for the correction.

As I've mentioned (with my foot in my mouth) the only Nexus devices I have seen where all carrier phones and when I did a quick Google prior to saying anything it looked like all of them were carrier devices. The Google ad looked like, well, a Google ad.

I do think I like the process. All the Nexus devices I had come across prior to this were from carriers - thank you for the correction.