Quick question (novice),
Do autocross events ever run in the rain?
Thanks
Larry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles R. Schultz" <n2pua4@peoplepc.com>
To: <autox@autox.team.net>
Cc: <johnlee@softdisk.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: Emergency Weather (Was: Re: Petition to Keep Speedvision)
> The alert tone is of two types, I believe, both a digital one which
> tells S.A.M.E. equipped radios where the alert is, what type, and for
> how long, and a more-conventional ~1KC audio tone to trigger older or
> simpler radios.
>
> The _tone_ only sounds once for each new alert, but all alert _messages_
> are repeated on a rotating basis with other weather info until they are
> expired. Therefore, if you miss the actual alert and the weather starts
> to look or act funny, you can tune in for 5 minutes or less and hear
> everything the NWS has to say about current conditions, forecasts, and
> alerts.
>
> The pager or digital phone idea is good, but it's not infallible,
> either, depending on others to hand off an alert to you in a timely
> fashion. I sub to an e-mail wx alert source, but I often don't see the
> e-mail alert 'til I'm back up from the shelter. I still think the
> weather alert radio is the best source of up-to-date info, especially if
> your autox site is not in a "populated area." I know the guy who did
> bulldozer work at my house couldn't use his digital phone in the spring
> of last year, and I only live 10 miles from the Interstate (which does
> have pretty good coverage.)
>
> BTW, your FRS radio is probably a second-rate weather receiver, because
> the antenna is likely designed and optimized to work best at FRS
> frequencies (~460 MHz) vs. NWS frequencies (~160MHz)
> _while_it_is_in_your_hand_ , which is probably the only way you can
> transmit. A radio designed exclusively for weather radio reception is
> the ideal thing to have at the timing table or some other place where
> the alert will be heard by the SSS or somebody responsible enough to
> determine what response, if any, is needed.
>
> Also, if you are using a S.A.M.E. radio, make sure it will hear alerts
> for wherever it is _this_week_ every week. You might decide to allow it
> to pass all alerts, even ones for out of state, as we get, here,
> sometimes, because that's better than missing a local alert because
> you're at a once-a-year special site in a different part of the state.
> It'll still tell you what kind of alert it is, and how much time is left
> on the watch or warning.
>
> Oh, yeah, learn and know the difference between a watch and a warning.
>
> Looking at other things to consider, one of those plastic-laminated
> state maps they sell at Wal-Mart and other places can be handy when they
> start talking about little towns you've never heard of, even if you grew
> up there. Of course, the plastic laminate makes 'em pretty durable. I
> use one of these at home, with a china marker, to track storms as they
> approach and pass by.
>
> Enough for now.
>
> Chuck (yes, I really do track storms on my little map, sometimes)
> Schultz
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Arthur Emerson wrote:
> >
> > John Lieberman <johnlee@softdisk.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >But you'll only hear it that one time. The EAS system doesn't repeat
> > >warnings.
> >
> > That is a serious issue with the EAS system. You had better
> > have a rock-solid signal on your weather alert radio at all
> > times, or you risk missing the digital alert activation signals.
> > My Motorola FRS radio with weather alert seems to completely
> > lose weather frequency reception when it's not in my hand.
> > Last Sunday was the first time that it ever received a weather
> > alert message, and even then I had to stand still with my
> > hand in the air to listen to the verbage.
> >
> > Another resource available in most populated areas is
> > web/e-mail/pager alerts of severe weather. There are services
> > that will pass along severe weather alerts via e-mail and
> > pager. Having just obtained a web-enabled phone last month,
> > I'll admit to spending the next hour of my 4th of July holiday
> > setting up this service.
> > Oh, and yes, John, this will be in the article..... :-)
> >
> > -Arthur ("Always be prepared" edition.)
> >
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