{"id":3493,"date":"2018-11-28T15:28:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T20:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/?p=3493"},"modified":"2018-11-28T20:07:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T01:07:13","slug":"test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/2018\/11\/28\/test\/","title":{"rendered":"Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s a picture of Ralph and I they day before the big trip. Just a system test!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Okay, so normally I’d just delete this test post, but I’m leaving this up to talk about our blogging just in case anyone’s interested. \u00a0Paul (who’s an MS student here at Case, doing an amazing geospatial analysis of finds from the Miller Range and the Walcott N\u00e9v\u00e9 icefields) was kind enough to come in to Case today (Wednesday) to pick up the blogging hardware. \u00a0For reasons not worth explaining here, \u00a0we hadn’t successfully tested the system and I didn’t even have it physically in hand until this past weekend ; \u00a0I started testing it on Monday and that night it took me 8 tries to send a simple three word message to myself (“test test test”, \u00a0if you must know). \u00a0It was outside during a blinding snowstorm here in Cleveland, \u00a0but still, not very promising…. \u00a0 \u00a0So I asked Paul if he would come in and we could run another test to make sure it all worked. \u00a0And it did; you’re looking at it. Paul absorbed what he could and will be carrying the hardware down to McMurdo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

For those interested, the hardware consists of \u00a0an Iridium Go! device, \u00a0basically an Iridium satellite modem that generates its own local wireless signal. \u00a0Costs about $1.50 a minute prepaid. \u00a0Blogs are prepared on an Apple iPod Touch with bluetooth keyboard, \u00a0and we have a small portable camera that can wirelessly share photos when the iPod isn’t being used for that (we’ve seen very mixed results on the use of iPhones and iPods as cameras at -25 C). \u00a0We use a phot app to shrink pictures and then Iridium’s Mail & Web app to get it all uploaded. \u00a0 It’s tediously slow (the pic above, a whopping 13 kb, \u00a0took 5 tries and then finally about 5 minutes to upload). \u00a0But to those of us who remember having only shortwave to communicate with the outside world (and that only intermittently) it seems like a miracle. \u00a0The blogs go (as emails) through Iridium’s various downlinks and crosslinks and such into the internet and ultimately are delivered to a unique email address. That’s checked hourly by a WordPress app on a \u00a0server at Case that adds them as posts to our blog; \u00a0and I do the editing as needed.<\/p>\n

So thanks, \u00a0Paul! \u00a0I’m not sure your wife appreciates me pulling you onto campus the day before you leave for Antarctica, \u00a0but I do, and I think our audience does too.<\/p>\n

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-posted by Ralph from snowy Novelty, OH<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Here’s a picture of Ralph and I they day before the big trip. Just a system test!<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Okay, so normally I’d just delete this test post, but I’m leaving this up to talk about our blogging just in case anyone’s interested. \u00a0Paul (who’s an MS student here at Case, doing an amazing geospatial analysis of finds from the Miller Range and the Walcott N\u00e9v\u00e9 icefields) was kind enough to come in to Case today (Wednesday) to pick up the blogging hardware. \u00a0For reasons not worth explaining here, \u00a0we hadn’t successfully tested the system and I didn’t even have it physically in hand until this past weekend ; \u00a0<\/p>\n

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