Posted on 09/10/2017 2:02:02 PM PDT by NautiNurse
The entire Florida Peninsula has begun to experience Hurricane Irma following landfall at Marco Island. Thousands of Floridians who evacuated the Atlantic cost to Gulf Coast areas found their safe shelter under direct threat from Hurricane Irma as the forecast shifted W Friday night and Saturday. Prayers for all in the storm path.
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Yes, right over Lakeland now where wife’s brother and wife are hold up on the first floor of a hotel. Evacuated from their modest home in a nearby retirement community.
My goal is to put up a UHF DMR repeater with a C bridge to the outside world and coverage over most of SE Idaho. The radios are inexpensive. Technology is mature. The HT is small enough to cart along on trips to San Diego where there are lots of DMR repeaters. DMR is live amateur radio with the convenience of Zello. The intercity networking does rely on a functioning network. Local area repeaters with 2 slot TDMA provide coverage similar to standard analog FM. DMR rigs can talk "simplex" in DMR mode and most have a dual capability to handle analog FM with full CTCSS support.
Amazing how many times power has come back on throughout storm. Been through a couple more cycles of off/on. Back on now.
Never has the discipline to learn the 5 WPM let alone 13 as a teenager.
As a “Senior”, forced self to get serious about the theory section, got a General.
It was a great mental exercise.
Zello needs a smart phone (Android or i-Phone) with the Zello client and a working wi-fi connection to your phone (or via your cellular network data plan). It works like most "push to talk" style radios. Address setup is free. A bit more manual than Skype.
I looked at at a few wunderground stations around there — most weren’t reporting wind speeds for Sunday but one did show a max of 80 mph. So I believe 100 MPH gusts were possible in nearby locations.
U Ok?
Here in O’do, one more band then nighty night.
Keep praying....
I just did a search around the current location (27.9N 82.1W) on Weatherunderground PWS and likewise found many haven’t reported in many minutes. Not sure if that is normal in that area. Most PWS use RapidFire and update every few seconds. Mine does. Anyway, the ones that are reporting wind in the area have winds in the 30s and gusts in the 40s and 50s. Lots of hype for nothing. If anyone can’t handle those winds...
Yep. The 1 a.m. report puts it at 27.9N 82.1W. Do a Google search of that “27.9N 82.1W” and you will get map and can zoom out to see where. Lakeland area.
The claim was about earlier Sunday not current conditions.
I know. Just overall seems more hype and fearmongering among the media and officials. Ridiculous. Can’t believe the reactions. But, on positive note, not much about Russia.
Glad your able to keep us posted, went dead from others concerned for them for sure. Hope to hear soon keep us posted out there if you can.
Zello is basically a walkie-talkie app with more development than most and optimized for a large group sharing a channel.
Catching hell in Polk County!
The TCP/IP development work I did with Phil Karn (KA9Q) in the mid-80's was a major influence on my "day job". It went hard over into datacom. X.25 on Amdahl, TCP/IP on UNIX. Kernel device driver work for HP-UX, UNISYS and Linux variants. It's fun when your hobby gooses your skillset at work.
Got mine around 1978, barely passed on the speed. Dropped it all when I went into the Navy in 79.
You sound like a salesman.
Same in SW Orlando, power went out 20 minutes ago, still out, working off of laptop batteries and a UPS for the modem/router. Will probably drop off in a bit.
Point well taken. Brings to mind the beginning of Irma and seeing the old folks on Barbuda standing in the rubble with shock on their faces.
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