Radio Shack has an interesting Weather Radio with AM/FM for Skywarn folks.
Since Jackson County has a grant to get a 75% rebate on the purchase of a new weather radio with SAME technology, it was not hard to say "yes".
The radio has an amazing additional feature. It's a scanner for two-meter and 440 mHz Skywarn channels, programmable. That's 20 channels for the local Skywarn enthusiast.
The radio specifications list .3 microvolt for both the weather radio and Skywarn band. That's not great sensitivity but locally it works to hear the local Skywarn repeaters and the County NWS transmitter, with the telescoping antenna collapsed and folded into storage.
Reading the reviews on the Radio Shack site, some complaints are:
low sensitivity
can't program a local Skywarn channel
no balance in audio between bands
One EXCELLENT feature is the BNC antenna adapter that comes with the radio. This makes having an outside antenna to improve reception of both weather and amateur radio signals.
Overall, this is a good unit, especially if you live in Jackson County, OK and are involved in the Skywarn Program.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Sunday, December 06, 2009
Likewise, as already noted, the 10-meter band is one of my favorites. By extension, this is one of my favorite contests.
When the sunspots are really going, this band can be, 24-hours per day, a worldwide band.
Look for me around the Ten-Ten frequencies of 28.380 and 28.880, the Straight Key Century Club frequency of 28.050, and on 29.6 FM simplex.
Don't forget to check out the map at
http://vhfdx.net/spots/map.php?Lan=E&Frec=28&Map=NA&mycall=&myloc=&freq=∝= and add your spots as appropriate.
Check out the article regarding 10 meters elsewhere on the blog.
Hope to see you on 10.
When the sunspots are really going, this band can be, 24-hours per day, a worldwide band.
Look for me around the Ten-Ten frequencies of 28.380 and 28.880, the Straight Key Century Club frequency of 28.050, and on 29.6 FM simplex.
Don't forget to check out the map at
http://vhfdx.net/spots/map.php?Lan=E&Frec=28&Map=NA&mycall=&myloc=&freq=∝= and add your spots as appropriate.
Check out the article regarding 10 meters elsewhere on the blog.
Hope to see you on 10.
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via QRZ Forums by N8CPA on 12/6/09
As 160M winds down, it's time to start thinking about the other end of HF. The 10M Contest is next weekend.
Unlike the 160M, Phone and CW may be used, locators are states and provinces, rather than sections. And all license classes now have some 10M privileges. So it presents an opportunity to all to get a taste of why contesting is so popular. And you learn a bit about the vagaries of near VHF propagation, Sporadic E, etc.
I will have a few hours to participate, from time to time, at least. And when I do, I'll be in the bottom of the band, CW only. Hope to work you there.
http://www.arrl.org/contests/rules/2009/10-meters.html
Contest ravers and ragers, you know what to do! ;):D
Unlike the 160M, Phone and CW may be used, locators are states and provinces, rather than sections. And all license classes now have some 10M privileges. So it presents an opportunity to all to get a taste of why contesting is so popular. And you learn a bit about the vagaries of near VHF propagation, Sporadic E, etc.
I will have a few hours to participate, from time to time, at least. And when I do, I'll be in the bottom of the band, CW only. Hope to work you there.
http://www.arrl.org/contests/rules/2009/10-meters.html
Contest ravers and ragers, you know what to do! ;):D
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Twitter and Rural America
The Tweet says it all.
In Mangum, OK, there was a shooting during a domestic. The outcome was the shooter taking his own life.
We normally take these issues with a grain of salt. These are Big City events. They are not supposed to happen in Rural America ... on a Holiday ... on Twitter.
The Twitter got the news on Twitter, not conventional media. I even learned of this over twitter, since I was on the other side of the State.
In rural America, the use of Web 2.0 is coming around. In two zip codes, I have monitored some of the most touching expressions of life along with the threat to crime and violence. Twitter, along with being a tool for ground truth, especially in weather, can also be used as a monitoring tool, ex. gangs use Twitter to recruit so LEO can use Twitter to monitor.
In Mangum, OK, there was a shooting during a domestic. The outcome was the shooter taking his own life.
We normally take these issues with a grain of salt. These are Big City events. They are not supposed to happen in Rural America ... on a Holiday ... on Twitter.
The Twitter got the news on Twitter, not conventional media. I even learned of this over twitter, since I was on the other side of the State.
In rural America, the use of Web 2.0 is coming around. In two zip codes, I have monitored some of the most touching expressions of life along with the threat to crime and violence. Twitter, along with being a tool for ground truth, especially in weather, can also be used as a monitoring tool, ex. gangs use Twitter to recruit so LEO can use Twitter to monitor.
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via near:73521 within:25mi - Twitter Search by mtdewlvr74 (Shawnna Pierro) on 11/27/09
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