Great surprise

[Will Bison]

So I was sitting around, doing nothing today, and the phone rang. One of my cannon shooting friends called me from the Ontario Airport in CA. He and the family are here from Argentina. I am about 8 minutes from the airport. What a cool deal and a big New Year surprise.

Bill

[Cat Whisperer]

We'd love to know about cannon shooting in Argentina!

I'll bet it's regulated.

[Will Bison]

Tim;

Cannons are regulated to some extent but not undoable. My friend, Nayar, is also my foreman and visits the US on a regular basis. We shot quite a few downrange last Summer. Last Winter (Summer in Agentina) we put quite few downrange. We speak "Spanglish" for lack of a better term. I think we don't hear from a lot of other cannon shooters just because we don't all speak the same language.

Bill

[Double D]

Language may one of the barriers, but access to the interent may be another.

I was able to get on the internet fairly fast down here  in South Africa with an ISP called I-Burst it is a wireless dial-up service.  Reception is spotty and service is slow, especially with a very advanced  full featured websites like GBO. It took 3 tries to get the reply window open. There is a lot of information to be transmitted over 10,000 miles from the server by who knows what means.

The wirless reciever cost me almost $400.  I pay $100 a month for 3 gigs.  That is a bunch of money down here.

To get ADSL is about the same cost but it can take 3 or 4 months to get the phone company to hook you up.  I have ordered  ADSL as this I-Burst has been getting worse since they cut the tree down in the front yard. Don't ask me why, the experts say it should not have made a difference.   

[Will Bison]

DD;

I,m in at 60 bucks a month for wireless at 1.1 gigs. No other options where I live.

In my LA office I have cable for TV and internet at about 60 bucks and 3.5 gigs.

In my WY office I got dial up.

When I'm in Argentina I have dial up, provided that the electricity is turned on.

[Cat Whisperer]

Things are really bad here!  My dialup is going up from 8 to $10 a month! OUCH!!!