Dear Friends,
I have some sad news to share, it appears that our friend John Hotsenpiller known to us as JohnH passed away last month.
JohnH was and will forever be known as the Godfather of the Uplink Reports. JohnH was the first to start reporting on the uplink activity back in the days of DBSDISH.COM / DBSFORUMS.COM, John then helped by posting uplink info at DBSTALK.COM and then moved over here to SatelliteGuys.
Not many people know this but John helped Digiblur write and maintain the automatic uplink reporting software we run here at SatelliteGuys. John worked secretly in the background on our software as he didn't want to upset the other site. He was an all around SatelliteGuy who enjoyed helping everyone learn about satellite and uplink technology.
A few months ago JohnH asked me for some help, he had quit a job and went out on his own with his pride and not much else. After he quit and moved he would check on the site from the library or on his cell phone. He wanted to help us improve our uplink software even more and asked if I had an old laptop I could send him. I didn't even think twice and went out and purchased him a new one and sent it to him.
He was very happy with it... This was the last Private Message I received from him, which was on July 21st.
John's last vist to SatelliteGuys was on July 27th.
Over the past few weeks I PMed Digiblur a couple of times asking if he heard anything from John. Digiblur heard nothing and was getting concerned himself.
Over the weekend the SatelliteGuys uplink PC stopped working, so I pinged Digiblur this morning about it and about John's status.
Then I decided typed John's name into Google and found the following from the Daily News Online. Daily News Online | Week of Aug. 16, 2010
I knew John was 65 and also knew he was living in Kansas City, MO. I had found out why John was missing. John has passed away.
Thank you John for all your help over the years, thanks for the gift of how to read the uplinks, as I said before you were and always will be the Godfather of Uplink Reports.
Rest in Peace my friend!
I have some sad news to share, it appears that our friend John Hotsenpiller known to us as JohnH passed away last month.
JohnH was and will forever be known as the Godfather of the Uplink Reports. JohnH was the first to start reporting on the uplink activity back in the days of DBSDISH.COM / DBSFORUMS.COM, John then helped by posting uplink info at DBSTALK.COM and then moved over here to SatelliteGuys.
Not many people know this but John helped Digiblur write and maintain the automatic uplink reporting software we run here at SatelliteGuys. John worked secretly in the background on our software as he didn't want to upset the other site. He was an all around SatelliteGuy who enjoyed helping everyone learn about satellite and uplink technology.
A few months ago JohnH asked me for some help, he had quit a job and went out on his own with his pride and not much else. After he quit and moved he would check on the site from the library or on his cell phone. He wanted to help us improve our uplink software even more and asked if I had an old laptop I could send him. I didn't even think twice and went out and purchased him a new one and sent it to him.
He was very happy with it... This was the last Private Message I received from him, which was on July 21st.
It works great.
Plugged the USB stick and loaded my programs and it does run GWBASIC AND .BAT files Have to take my Blackberry CD and the stick to the library to copy the CD to the stick. Then see if the Blackberry tools will work on the Acer. That will allow me to send and receive files to/from digiblur without the library. Don't need to do that very often. I probably will not have the Acer on the internet for a while. The functionality it has now is what I need for now.
Thanks for the mouse and the BIG Screen.
John
John's last vist to SatelliteGuys was on July 27th.
Over the past few weeks I PMed Digiblur a couple of times asking if he heard anything from John. Digiblur heard nothing and was getting concerned himself.
Over the weekend the SatelliteGuys uplink PC stopped working, so I pinged Digiblur this morning about it and about John's status.
Then I decided typed John's name into Google and found the following from the Daily News Online. Daily News Online | Week of Aug. 16, 2010
I knew John was 65 and also knew he was living in Kansas City, MO. I had found out why John was missing. John has passed away.
Thank you John for all your help over the years, thanks for the gift of how to read the uplinks, as I said before you were and always will be the Godfather of Uplink Reports.
Rest in Peace my friend!
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