The view from WA2AAB....
(Pike County Pa.)
Unless your on TOP of the mountain here
you can't even hit a repeater (with a beam??!!)
In other words, I have to be at my house
to hit the Monroe or Wayne Skywarn
(Pike doesn't have Skywarn...ugh...or a repeater)
Welcome to Tropical Season everybody
Charlie Anzman
http://www.sbccomputer.com/Pikeweather.html
The Pike Weather Station
http://www.pikepennsylvania.com
http://www.tristatenews.com
Tri-State News
----- Original Message -----
From: Dee Hall <dhall{at}gabn.net>
To: <casilist{at}lists.weatherwatchers.org>; <lrboyce{at}ibm.net>
Cc: <casilist{at}lists.weatherwatchers.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 1999 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: [CASILIST] New Spotter Frequency!
> Good reply Powell. It doesn't make since to ask the net control operator
> to go simplex when they are already talking on a repeater. (By the way I'm
> from August for anybodys information. My late husband ran a privately
owned
> weather station out of Augusta and there is no way that we could ever hit
> Columbia without a repeater.) So Powell I back you 100% on what you are
> saying. I have seen how hard it was for you guys at the NWS to get to us
> when the repeater was down. You guys at the NWS do a great job keep it up.
>
> Your Friend,
> "D"
>
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
>
> On 6/13/99, at 8:07 PM, Powell E. Way III wrote:
>
> >> On the surface, this sounds just fine, but in the Augusta, GA area, as
> >> in many areas, we depend on the range of our repeater for coverage.
The
> >> NWS guy is in Columbia, SC and there's no way in bloody blue blazes for
> >> him to hear us if we go to simplex. If all we were doing was having a
> >> group chase, it would be OK, but that's not how we normally handle our
> >> skywarn nets.
> >
> >Well I'd be the one that she'd be calling into. In stormy weather
> >(Augusta is 65 miles away) it's VERY hard to hear the repeater, and I
> >sure wish they would raise the antenna another 50 feet and double the
> >power!
> >
> >> "Gregory S. Williams" wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Well this is news to a great many HAMs who are on several SKYWARN
> mailing
> >> > lists. Looks like these multitudes of HAMs who voted on this never
> >> > bothered to fill any EC's in.
> >
> >Well I think it was a very SMALL handfull of hams that came up with
> >this scheme.
> >
> >> > I sure as heck havent heard anyhting about it until recently. I knew
> >> > several areas were going to 147.420 simplex to coincide with Red
Cross
> lo
> >> > band (47.42) but this is a first for me...and a *LOT* of others.
> >> > Greg
> >I haven't heard about this either. BUT I digress....
> >
> >
> >> > At 01:33 AM 6/8/99 -0000, Jason Breakiron wrote:
> >> > >For those of you who are Spotters and are HAM Radio operators or if
> you
> >> > >have a scanner: There is a new frequency set up for
> spotters/chasers/HAM
> >> > >Radio Operators to share weather information during severe weather.
> The new
> >> > >frequency is: 146.550 It will be used all over the nation. for
> more
> >> > >information go to: http://www.hamsnet.net/kc5trr/simplex.htm This
> New
> >> > >frequency was created by Steve Miller KC5TRR, My administrator
> partner in
> >> > >Chasers digest. It was created so that everyone across the country
> could
> >> > >report severe weather
> >
> >
> >It's my idea that this was the[ NOT DALLAS TX ] Steve Miller's idea.
> >Jason got rather [and deservedly so] flamed for this in WX-CHASE. He
> >claimed the old frequency was 146.52 which is the NATIONAL simplex
> >frequency. Nope. NOPE N O P E!! It would be OK to call and move off
> >to a simplex frequency of your choice, but don't bother ME at the
> >NWS when I'm on 2 radios (maybe my on HT on another local repeater)
> >and get me to go simplex when you can give it to me on a repeater. I
> >could miss something important. Now if lets say John wants to ask
> >Bill something and not tie up the repeater they can ask net control
> >to let them go to a simplex frequency for a short while so as not to
> >tie up the net for more important stuff. I just think it was someone
> >wanting themselves to be deemed important. Even in SC running a
> >Skywarn net can be baptism by fire. Ask the Augusta Folks....
> >
> >Powell
> >
> >---------------------------------------------
> >powell{at}conterra.com
> >http://www.qsl.net/w4opw
> >---------------------------------------------
>
> 73's de KD4AHR
> Dee dhall{at}gabn.net
> ICQ # 784308
>