Well, one of the old Towers went down last evening. The PC running the NOAA WX Webcast didn’t recover after an unscheduled shutdown while testing the UPS.
So, I pulled another old box off the shelf and got the NOAA ‘cast going after an hour of putzing with the original box and deciding this would take some time.
I’m not sure if it’s a Motherboard or hard drive problem so, I’ll start with the drive.
Got Scared
Oh what a fright. “One of the old towers went down last evening” made me think right away of our visit on LPH # 20 when you mentioned your 55-foot tower. Although you hadn’t mentioned a second tower, I thought maybe the end-fed dipole hanging on the one tower might have been hit by a drone and toppled over.
As it turned out, one hour without weather wasn’t bad.
Odd how those computers know exactly when to fail.
Oh The Pressure…
Yeah, and this particular PC, running the <http://mram.gotdns.com:8000/listen.pls“>NOAA stream, gets alot of traffic.
NWS contacted me to ask permission to link the stream on their website. As such plenty of people see the link and listen to it.
Occasionally the PC needs rebooted and wouldn’t you know someone actually called me on the phone to let me know the stream was down.
I feel obligated to keep it running…
Stream It..They Will Listen
Might as well keep it going if it is actually being listened to. The audio quality is FAR better from the mp3’s than the tinny tin tin can sound from the WX radio.
People like to hear natural human voice sound…that is hear it in its full fidelity range. The tin tinny sound can be irritating.
And the reason why I do not dabble in HAM or other basic two way radio stuff. Same thing as a tin can and string…cept without the string and without the cheap tin can.
RFB