The picture above was taken on the way back from East Coast. Have wasted a trip. Didn't windsurf because it was raining, and more crucially and excruciatingly , the wind was pathetically weak.
Actually had a chance to go yesterday, but have postponed the trip till today, hoping that the weather would improve - an obvious mistake - yesterday was better.
Lesson learnt : We are at the mercy of the weather and nature. Look at the Asian Tsunamis, Katrina, the JB flood ... time and tide (and weather) wait for no man - should have been there yesterday, ouch . But that would be impossible to predict - And, the weather forecast sucks!
Anyway, I am counting my blessings. Ended up shopping, have some retail therapy - bought an olive oil Loccitane cake soap to soften the pain ( and soften my skin, literally); and a DECT phone.
Have tried it and the result is amazingly better than the convectional cordless phone ( range about 100m for good models, my old phone was worse: I couldn't get a good signal from my bedroom). I can now talk over the phone at the bedroom, kitchen ... The box claims that the DECT phone's range is 300m.
Information on DECT phone and radio frequency in common households:
- DECT stands for digitally enhanced cordless telecommunications. It uses frequency of 1.9GHz
- Convectional Cordless phone uses frequency of 0.9 GHz, 2.4 GHz, 5.8GHz.
- WiFi, or WLAN: 802.11a uses 5.0 GHz, 802.11g uses 2.4 GHz
- Bluetooth uses 2.45 GHz.
- VHF ( very high frequency for FM radio and TV) uses 0.03 GHz to 0.3 GHz.
- UHF ( ultra high frequency for TV) uses 0.3 GHz to 3 GHz.
- GSM phones 0.9 GHz to 1.8 GHz ( more commonly 900MHz or 1800 MHz)
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