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Spotter Volunteers Relay Key Information to Weather, Emergency Officials:

Posted: 26 Aug 2016 05:11 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37448


(TNS) -- Steve Nardin noticed the weather starting to look "pretty ugly"
before 6 p.m. Wednesday. When the Fort Wayne man turned on his scanner set
to ham radio signals and then his own ham radio, they crackled with reports
about the storm moving through the Fort Wayne area. Someone asked if anyone
could get eyes on the storm near Indiana 37 and Interstate 469. Nardin, who
lives nearby, went out to take a look. "I've never seen such
menacing-looking clouds," he said. "They were very black." Nardin, a ham
radio operator, relayed the information to Jay Farlow, a local leader among
ham radio operators who are National Weather Service-trained SKYWARN
spotters. Farlow quickly sent the information to the National Weather
Service (NWS) office in North Webster, which serves the Fort Wayne area,
for use in issuing storm warnings and storm tracking.


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Fine Business, Good Buddy: Amateur Radio for Truckers:

Posted: 26 Aug 2016 05:11 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37447


Summer is the season for family road trips here in the US, and my family
took to the open road in a big way this year. We pulled off a cross-country
relocation, from Connecticut to Idaho. Five days on the road means a lot of
pit stops, and we got to see a lot of truck stops and consequently, a lot
of long-haul truckers. I got to thinking about their unique lifestyle and
tried to imagine myself doing that job. I wondered what I'd do hour after
long hour, alone in the cab of my truck. I figured that I'd probably just
end up listening to a lot of audio books, but then I realized that there's
a perfect hobby for the road -- ham radio. So I decided to see how ham
radio is used by truckers, and mull over how a truck driver version of me
might practice The World's Best Hobby.


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Foundations of Amateur Radio #64:

Posted: 26 Aug 2016 04:23 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37446


These pesky radio waves keep changing,
bouncing around, reflecting, refracting, doing
unexpected things, did I mention gravity? This
week some tips on how to keep your signal
getting from your antenna to their antenna and
how not to hold a hand-held radio.


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Propagation Forecast Bulletin #35 de K7RA:

Posted: 26 Aug 2016 09:31 AM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37445


Solar activity over the past week (August 18 to 24) was down
compared to the previous week, with average daily sunspot number
declining from 73.9 to 33.9, and average daily solar flux from 89.2
to 79.6. Average planetary A index increased from 6.9 to 9.7, while the
mid-latitude number rose from 7.4 to 8.7.