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Ok So I finally got the sound card to work for me and have started a rather scrambled up playlist which has no real direction to it other than just testing the streaming capabilities of the Icecast2 server and mp3 payer, in this case VLC player.

I chose VLC just to test the streaming server, later I will work on installing Zararadio and Windows media player, hopefully.

Could i get members to try to tune into the stream? You can find it on http://thefreeproject.no-ip.org:8000 or just leave off the :8000 of that url and click on the button that is labled Radio and it will take you to the Icecast2 page, find the m3u link on the top right of the page. That should open your favorite player.

Let me know how it works for you.

Thanks

Barry of the World Service of Blue Bucket Radio

Too hot to do much of anything…

After missing nearly all of the ALPB meeting but hearing just enough to get an idea in my head, i have installed and have running a website from home on a fairly beefy HP Pavilion Desktop PC. 

I am still working on the web pages but the main page (index.html) is nearly finished.
This is an experiment at this point and i really don’t know if it will stay online for a long time or just go away in a few weeks. We will just have to see what happens.

Here is the url: http://thefreeproject.no-ip.org

Members please try it out and let me know how it works for you, good and bad comments welcomed. Thanks

Thanks to the great people at WYMT-TV and NOAA from the Jackson Weather office for providing this great service for our community.

Stephanie, myself and a handful of people turned up at the back of the WYMT-TV station to learn how to spot tornado’s and how to report them to NOAA and the television station.  We were given a quiz afterwards and a bunch of phone numbers, email address of weather anchors and NOAA Weather Radio.

Of course there was some paper work to sign but nothing to long drawn out.
We received our certificates and some tokens to take home with us, after the important stuff was out of the way, we took a tour of the station and returned to the sports studio to watch a movie and eat lunch.

All in all it was a great experience.
I have some photos to share because for some reason my tremors were really acting up today which made my videos suffer. I took screenshots off of the video to share here.

The staff was great and we had a lot of fun, Stephanie and I are now certifed weather spotters for Perry County, Kentucky.

Link to photo album

As i mentioned in an entry 2 blogs back, Stephanie and I are going to a Weather Spotter class put on for free by WYMT-TV and the N.O.A.A. weather staff from Jackson ,Ky.

Our county is in dire need of weather spotters, weather spotters aren’t the same as storm chasers. Although i would not be opposed if offered a job as a storm chaser, storms really don’t bother me so and i have enough sense to find shelter when things get out of control.

This class will teach us how to spot potentially dangerous weather conditions that could lead to flash floods, damaging winds and tornados as well as how to predict the best time to share that data in real time with NOAA weather radio and the media.

This class is for two hours and i hear there is a rumor of a cook out afterwards, we go at 9 am tomorrow morning. I am excited to say the least, weather is  another one of my hobbies. And who knows, maybe i can work out some kind of deal where i can carry WYMT-TV weather on Blue Bucket Radio.

I will be taking a recorder with me, actually it’s an app on my old Android phone called voice recorder, the same app we recorded the Storm episode of The Little Things Radio show when our power was out for a week.

If all goes well i will share audio snippets from what i record, there will be some videos for us to watch so i probably wont be recording those.

I’ll let you all know.

Barry of Blue Bucket Radio 1620 AM