Cable Length Signal Degredation…

Posted in Novice on November 20, 2009 by luisalicea

There is a varying degree of cable quality with these numbers, but it’s a good starting point if you are wiring your home or something for an office conference room.

Coaxial –100 feet.
Cat6 – 300 feet.
Composite –50 feet.
S-Video –60 feet.
VGA –50 feet. (VGA with a DA is about 100 Feet.)
DVI –30 Feet.
Shielded Audio Cable –150 feet.
HDMI –32 feet.

Like I said earlier though different gauge and different quality of copper will always make a big difference in those lengths, but if you just go to Best Buy or your basic local retail store that sells consumer products most of their degradation lengths are the one’s above.

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The sound of Digital!

Posted in myWork on November 19, 2009 by luisalicea

I’m very excited about the new sound board we are getting here at church!!

Check it out… http://newspringstudios.org

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Vally Wally!

Posted in myLife on November 6, 2009 by luisalicea

So normally someone gets sick one time in the flu/winter season. Well unfortunately my wife woke up this morning with a fever!

I feel really bad for her, she’s been working so hard!

But the main point of this post is because of her.

I’ve been always amazed by people that work with kids, but none as much as my wife.

She has a way of getting kids to eat out of the palm of their hands. You might say “well she’s made to be a mom” but I’ve known many moms in my life…that sounds wierd, but this is different. She takes some of the simplest games or makes up one and the kids just eat it up! I’ll be standing there thinking “There is no way that a kid would go for this!” AND THEY DO!

There’s just something about Val…

But don’t think for a second this is me changing my mind about having kids right now. =)

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NewSpring Studios

Posted in Uncategorized on November 5, 2009 by luisalicea

I’ve finally made a website that is dedicated to the tech team and tech systems at NewSpring Church.

It has information on how our volunteer ministry works and how some of the systems are setup, like audio. Some of it is still in development, but I’m just really happy to finally have that out there and available for everyone!

Check it out newsprinstudios.org

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Messed Up Communication

Posted in Uncategorized on November 5, 2009 by luisalicea

You know I’ve really struggling with the whole mass media and communication bombardment we are having these days.

You’ve got Messenger, Facebook, Blogs, MySpace, Twitter, Text Msg…and I could go on. It seems that we are so overloaded with ways of communication…

So tell me why does it seem like we (as in the world) are not closer than we should?

Think about it suicide is on the rise among teens and if you ask a bunch of teens/adults what is one of their biggest struggles right now, most of them will say loneliness…

Loneliness! Isn’t that odd? I can call my friend living in Charlotte, or email him, or chat with him on gmail, or text him. We are talking about instant communication here! Instant! Even if my friends are in a meeting most of the time they will respond to a text msg in that meeting.

Loneliness…

I personally think it can be an addiction. Just like drugs, porn, computer gaming, smoking, etc. All these communication tools just become another way to fill that void that we all have…yet it can never be filled.

If you feel that void and feel like you’ve been trying to fill it…trust me on this. Watch newspring.org/live this weekend.

Because deep down inside we all know the world is freakin’ messed up…

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BS Soundweb

Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2009 by luisalicea

I mean BSS soundweb… We are getting ready to take a look at our DSP in the auditorium. I have mixed feelings about whether I want it fixed or replaced with nicer ones!

Could be the beginning of creating an infriatructure for digital sound!

But I could be dreaming!

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In the right direction

Posted in myWork on April 26, 2009 by luisalicea

It’s sad really that I’m surprised when prayer is answered but I guess that’s my human nature!

Things are moving fast here at NewSpring and I’m not sure if I can keep up with the ride! We’ve hired a couple of new people, one of them is TJ our new graphics designer! He’s been such a blessing already! Lance is now able to let go of the graphics and concentrate on music.

Imagine that a worship pastor concentrating on music!

The building project is about to launch into full gear in a week or so! We are also doing reasearch on some technology upgrades! More on that when I get some concrete answers in a month or so!

God has been answering the prayers of His church and when He starts that it’s quite the ride!

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Our Vacation!

Posted in myLife on February 19, 2009 by luisalicea

I know a little more explanation on my Dogwood comment is probably required.

All in all we had an awesome time going to Branson/Table Rock/Big Cedar Lodge. We drove in Sunday and headed back Wed morning.

We did quite a few awesome and fun things, one thing I will say is I’ve never been a big fan of Mexican food until I went to the Cantina Loredo in Branson Landing! That was exceptionally delicious and great service! The Keeter Center was also very good and had great service too!

Now for the Dogwood story…

I had told Val that I’d rather not horseback ride this trip and she said that instead I need to go on a walk with her, since I would send her by herself otherwise… I knew there were trails around Big Cedar that we could have gone on but no I wanted a nice actual Park that had amazing trails. Low and behold there was one such park about 16 miles from us! Yay! I checked online and I check the information guide from the hotel and they both said Jan 1-Feb 28 open from 10am – 4pm. Great!I pull out Google Maps and punch in “Dogwood Canyon” it comes right up and we are off!

I will say that Google Maps has been great the entire trip…but when you put in Dogwood Canyon it doesn’t lead you to the park it leads you to the actual Canyon! and I came to that realization when we end up in an extremely narrow one way dirt road. Afraid for our lives since by that time we were in the Ozarks of Arkansas, I immediately turned around and put in “Dogwood Canyon Nature Park” in Google Maps and low and behold we were an HOUR AWAY! So after driving 1 1/2 hours out of the way we are to drive another hour to get back on track.

We near our destination and I turn to Val and say “I think we passed the gates!” We turn around and see the beautiful iron gates of Dogwood with a beautiful teal sign saying “Closed for the season”

All we could was laugh…

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Dogwood Canyon

Posted in myLife on February 17, 2009 by luisalicea

My wife and I are on vacation and I just wanted to drop a note to myself.

Note to self – Dogwood Canyon Nature Park is closed during Feb. Even if their website says they are open. Remember DO NOT take the 2 hour detour to have a nice leisure walk through the woods there…

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My hair…at least today

Posted in myLife on February 11, 2009 by luisalicea

So after trying many different colors (red, blue, green, purple, teal, blonde etc.). I’ve been wanting to do something that is completely white or platinum! Well the attempt is what you see up top (my banner).

I tried a different hair product (peroxide) and I got the highest concentration (volume 40) well I put it in my hair and after an hour and a half, I knew something didn’t feel right…that’s right I totally singed my scalp, it was burning so bad when i rinsed this stuff all out so until my scalp heals I won’t be continuing my goal of white.

I mean to say I’m going to wait a couple days see if my scalp is good and then bleach and then use a lower concentration peroxide…

So maybe the next picture I post I’ll be bald!

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