This is the second of 3 new threads
I am starting.
I guess the topic is pretty obvious.
Carl should have a lot of fun with this one.
So if you have any bad storms coming or
are buried under snow in the wintertime with
no power, come over here.
Bruce
This will be perfect, Bruce.
I just checked the NOAA Weather and it's going to be calm and comfortable until next Wednesday when there is a 20% chance of rain.
Pretty calm for runaway climate weather.
Now I get to postpone gutter cleaning until next Tuesday.
Can gutters serve as antennas?
In Hartford, CT it's 50 F with light
rain. I have to take a taxi home from
work. The rain isn't too bad. Humidity is
pretty high.
I'll have to look at the "futurecast." I need to
empty out a room in the house to reorganize it.
I'll have to bring it all outside to sort it all out.
It will probably snow and I'll have to dig it all
out to put it back in the house.
And yes, I know of more than one ham operator
who loaded up a transmitter into a gutter as a
stealth antenna. But if it was raining the SWR
would change.
Thanks fer bein out there.
Bruce
Here's a link to my NOAA Wx radio for what's happening here in the Akron, Ohio area.
http://MRAM.gotdns.com:8000/listen.pls
That's a Shoutcast stream.
Yes. Professional Radio Operators use them all the time in Dead Restricted Hoods.
Pieces of car body and oily sharp engine parts
sitting next to the flat front tire of
a junked rusted lime green 1951 Hudson Hornet?
In freezing rain?
Bruce
It's like July 4 in Hartford on this Saturday
near the end of September. Just bright sun
and that's all.
Bruce in Hartford, CT
It must be annual yard sale day here in the mid Mississippi Valley, halfway between Minneapolis and New Orleans. Mid 60s Farenheit, cheerful sunlight, people arriving and swarming in their SUVs and pickups, sales and bargains in every 4th driveway.
If I were two people, giving me double the time, I'd wander over to look for old radios and Knight kits, but I'm too busy having fun and being happy in this life and don't have spare time (or cash).
AM 1550 is beaming, still 100% invisible, coming from an AMT3000 with loading coil and Wintenna. "Your Yardsale Station" (no, the station is not for sale).
A very flashy storm is crossing diagonally from the southeast tip of Kansas up to the northeastern tip of Missouri, on into Illinois.
The lightning map is blasting away like an active french-fry grease machine.
NOAA Weather shows tornado warnings in central Missouri, a tornado watch area all around that, just outside of the KDXWorldround radio park and picnic table.
I've got my running shoes on, lanterns, the car is backed away from the tree that could crush it, all the gutters got cleaned out by 4:30 this afternoon.
But first, this message...
60 F, 95 percent huminity light rain
in Hartford, CT.
Carl, is your car a 1951 Hudson Hornet
with a vacuum tube radio in it?
Oh, wait - I said that before.
Bruce
The severe weather last night seemed odd because it stood in one place for hours.
The KDX Worldround Campus remained 100-miles away from the storm zone.
Cakm overnight, heavy rain a moment ago that lasted 2-minutes.
Everytime the HAARP Array in Alaska takes a meal-break the weather stops.
At 4:06 PM CDT KDX Worldround Radio shut down to make way for an advancing lightning storm.
Cable modem was shut off, internet cable detached, antenna disconnected between AMT3000 transmitter and Wintenna, and there was plenty of static on AM radio.
Extremely dark for full daylight hours, but there is apparantly no merit to the idea that darker storms are worse than brighter storms.
It was quick, we returned to air at 4:36 PM.
Skies remain dark, thunder is audible and another shutdown could occur.
Bow your head and murmer.
Your weather situation is moving our way. Current radar shows a line in Toledo, Ohio which should arrive sometime tomorrow.
That is being followed by a line in Chicago. Although the animation makes it appear to be tracking to the northeast and may miss us.
The last few days have been very nice; sunny with mild daytime temps and cool temps for sleeping.
A large tornado watch area exists south of here down river (Mississippi).
The immediate KDX listening area, a several hundred foot swath of wet ground, is operating safely.
The expected weather for the Saturday night ALPB meeting will appear on the Meeting Notice Thread.
Meet me there.
First real cold front of the Fall arrives in Greater Metropolitan Dade City on Saturday. Time to stoke the furnace.