Apr. 5, 2008 Spring has Sprung!
As everyone can tell spring is here, the snow is melting. So that means that the storms are soon in coming. In that aspect is time to get ready and start blowing the dust off the storm spotting equipment and that there are spotting training to teach etc... One of those things would be running drills. Also April 21-26 is severe weather awareness month.
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Feb. 9, 2008 Seeing God in tornadoes' wake
 "Seeing God in tornadoes' wake" that is what the Los Angeles Times dubbed it. this vary rare over 200 tornadoes this winter when normally we only see about 50 at the most. Tennessee at Union Christian University all but 1 of 33 buildings destroyed. Yet no one at the school was killed. That is not the story at other places in the southern states tornadoes this years since the beginning of the year are now blamed for 55 deaths. I come to two conclusions one this is starting to become a vary interesting storm season, and most importantly of all we need to keep those affected by these disasters in our prayers.
 Floods Snow Tornadoes
The Southern Midwest states have been hammered this winter |
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Jan. 16, 2008 building antennas/fixing things/installing them
Wow it is so much fun to make thing out of the stuff you have laying around the house. You can make it cheaper sometimes better and to your standards. It even better when what you have built out does the manufactured product. I have a homemade antenna on top of the house made out of model railroad track and it performs just as well as my factory made base station antenna. This will probably bore most people so change the subject kind of. This weekend Jan. 19-20 is ARRL VHF/UHF radio sweepstakes contest. In this contest Hams all around the country will be trying to get as many contacts as possible in as many different grid squares as possible(grid squares are like latitude and longitude lines only they are used in ham radio for determining location). The difference with this contest and the thing that make so much different is that the frequencies used are much shorter ranged then HF and more line of sight so it is a lot more fun when you get a 100 or even 200 mile away contact! for more info
PLEASE VISIT---www.arrl.org---
Just for the fun of it and if you do not know line of sight is determined by how high up your antenna is and the distance because the farther away you are the lower the horizion is, which is because of the curvature of the earth. some of this distance can be overcome by putting more power out of the radio, putting the antenna higher up, using a direction antenna(this directs all the power in one direction instead of in all directions), or waiting of good atmospheric conditions where a signal can get trapped between two air masses and bounce through what is called a DUCT over long distances.
I love making contact and even the community service parts it is fun hobby. You should Check it out if you love build things, Watch Storms, Tincker, or just talk on the radio. |
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Jan. 7, 2008 January Tornado
 
Wow a record for the farthest north tornado and the earliest in the year. This can be blamed on the vary mild weather of the last couple of days. this is one of those times when you really think about who really controls the weather and there really is no normal weather its whatever God wants the weather to be like. so if he decided that it was going to be snowy in Mexico all the time and hot in Minnesota(this would really surprise me) I guess I would move to Mexico |
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Why is all the snow melting?, this is Minnesota we should be getting more snow not less. These high temps are good for cleaning off the roads and sidewalks and when it freezes we will have a good snow base. One reason why I think we are having a better or maybe even just more stormy winter is because of the lack of storms last summer. Compared to most summers we did not get much rain at all and did not see a lot of severe storms come through. Last winter we did not get any snow until after Christmas, same with the year before that which is still unusual for Minnesota. One other unusual thing last year was that we had a tornado in the end of October(That was one crazy night) which is almost unheard of that late in the year this far North. The tornado was not that big, but it was still a tornado and it did cause some damage.
Now the only thing for Skywarn we are working on is putting together classes for the spring and getting prepared for the next storm season. 00Stormspoter and I are going to be putting on a class for a homeschool co-op this spring I think it is going to be really neat. |
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Well This is the first time I have ever written anything in a blog
A fellow Ham & Storm Spotter has been trying to get me on this site for a while and he has finally done that. the only other time I have really posted somthing to the internet would be facebook or my website for Storm Spotters and Hams.
Isanti Co. Skywarn Website
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