Hanna and Ike via cell phone

As I mentioned use you phone to listen to the hurricane emergency nets
as these East Coast storms unfold.

The iPhone for instance works with the iPhone tuner application
perfectly, just enter URL and listen to the VoIP stream all day long.
Save the URL as a Tuner favorite and you can pull it back up instantly
at any time.

With other phones and non AT&T networks your ability to monitor may
vary.

You can monitor these nets from a PC also, but it is a lot more useful
to be able to carry the net with you on a cell phone.

Bob, KC4QLP writes

Tropical Storm Hanna is about to bear down on the Carolinas late
Friday into Saturday. The *KC4QLP-C* Echolink conference server is
still being used for those outside of the storms effected area for
those that wish to monitor net activities which will begin at 6pm
eastern, 2300 UTC Friday. The net can also be monitored via eQSO in
the KC4QLP-R "room" and via the web at http://kc4qlp.dyndns.org:8082
and begining Friday at the following websites....http://
www.scanamerica.us and www.w2lie.net


I'll be giving wx condition reports via the echolink text box from
our current location....our old QTH (location), visiting Elizabeth
City NC....accessing Echolink via a cellphone and remote pc program on
the cellphone...and listening via the webstream here. The text
infomation will be read by whoever is net control at the time, so info
can be passed to the National Hurricane Center. (I'll be out of here
and back in Central NY by the time IKE makes a pass through the
region, if the steering currents pull IKE up the east coast)

Doesn't look like Hanna will amount to a huge deal here in northeast
North Carolina...strong winds, heavy rain and some minor urban and
sound side flooding and minor beach errosion along the Outer Banks. We
shall see what pans out.

Bob Carter - KC4QLP
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Mid-Atlantic- Engineering- Service of Utica NY

http://midatlanticengineeringservice.cjb.net/
WKVU-FM 100.7 Utica/Rome NY, WKVJ-FM 89.7 Dannemora/Plattsburgh NY,
WKYJ-FM 88.7 Rouses Point NY,WRCK 107.3 Utica NY, WVVC-LPTV-40 Utica
NY, WKTV-DT 2 Utica NY
----------------------------------------------------------
KC4QLP-R, KC4QLP-L, KC4QLP, eQSO KC4QLP-R,
*KC4QLP-C*, KC4QLP*, KC4QLP webstream

http://midatlanticengineeringservice...et/kc4qlp.html

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› See More: Hanna and Ike via cell phone

4phun <[email protected]> wrote in news:727ddc02-4daf-4ff7-835f-
[email protected]:

> http://kc4qlp.dyndns.org:8082

What a mess to find a stream. This link takes you to his company page and
you have to find his ham link to take you to the IRLP page which is dead
even though it's playing.

4phun <[email protected]> wrote in news:828d23ff-8773-47a3-aed8-
[email protected]:

> On Sep 5, 9:15*am, Larry <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 4phun <[email protected]> wrote in news:727ddc02-4daf-4ff7-835f-
>> [email protected]:
>>
>> >http://kc4qlp.dyndns.org:8082
>>
>> What a mess to find a stream. *This link takes you to his company page
> and
>> you have to find his ham link to take you to the IRLP page which is dead
>> even though it's playing.
>
> Monitor net activities which will begin at 6pm eastern,
> <---------------
> 2300 UTC Friday
>

What is the DIRECT link to the MP3 server without the company spam and
other nonsense? Which stream is this playing on??

4phun <[email protected]> wrote in news:828d23ff-8773-47a3-aed8-
[email protected]:

> Monitor net activities which will begin at 6pm eastern,
> <---------------
> 2300 UTC Friday
>
>

Currently, at my house on the Ashley River near the Charleston AFB main
gate, it's cloudy, wind E at about 5-10, no rain yet. There hasn't been
enough wind to blow the towel off my motorcycle seat on the patio
overlooking the river. It's nice and cool, for a nice change.....

4phun <[email protected]> wrote in news:41ea10f8-a5ef-4bcb-9f5b-
[email protected]:

> Hanna is picking up strength.

Charleston and SC has several monstrous VHF/UHF repeater nets. One net
is owned by the county and connects all the medical facilities. Another
connects all the shelters and our truly stupid EOC which is located in a
court building 25' underwater in the 100 year flood map, with its main
power and generator mounted UNDERWATER on the ground. The building,
instead of being a bunker, has huge windows up one whole side to look
pretty for the lawyers and judges in the courts. It's the dumbest EOC
on the planet.

The cop's main network for their Motorola trunk is located 6 inches
above the parking lot at the base of a nice wide-base tower that will be
complete submerged in seawater if the surge is about 9' deep. High tide
tonight is about midnight at that point on the river....at the worst
part of the storm. We'll see if it floods...

The hams that run SCETV, the operational vice president of which I
helped get his ham license and into electronics when he was a teenager
killing himself on motorcycles, have a statewide repeater network using
some spare channels on SCETV's massive statewide microwave network.
That's the third system with great funding and support from the
engineers.....

I used to run a 24/7 IRLP and Echolink system over the 147.300 repeater
up 1,800' that blankets the area well. But, I got tired of apologizing
to the foreign hams for the jamming and constant touch toning trying to
trash it all night. They were cursing a nice old gentleman from Dublin,
IE, for calling CQ on it when noone was using it. That was the last
straw and I sold off the link equipment. I pretty much dumped ham radio
at that point. I never went back....

73 DE W4CSC

NNNN

On Sep 5, 2:39*pm, Larry <[email protected]> wrote:
> 4phun <[email protected]> wrote in news:41ea10f8-a5ef-4bcb-9f5b-
> [email protected]:
>
> > Hanna is picking up strength.

....
>
> 73 DE W4CSC
>
> NNNN

W4 Charleston South Carolina

How did you pull that one off?
That is a classic call sign!

I am too lazy to look that up but that has to be the fruits of extra
class.

I thought you were KN4IM or possibly even WB4THE, but not W4C$C.

BTW you hit the nail on the head as to what is wrong with Amature
Radio IMHO.

On Sep 5, 4:48*pm, 4phun <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sep 5, 2:39*pm, Larry <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > 4phun <[email protected]> wrote in news:41ea10f8-a5ef-4bcb-9f5b-
> > [email protected]:
>
> > > Hanna is picking up strength.
>
> ...
>
>
>
> > 73 DE W4CSC
>
> > NNNN

> BTW you hit the nail on the head as to what is wrong with Amature
> Radio IMHO.

Top 25 things vanishing from America: #16 -- Ham radio
Tom Barlow
Jul 17th 2008 at 11:00AM
Filed under: Technology

http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2008/0...16-ham-radio/2

"Many think of a ham radio operator as a tubes-and-wires geek, and
there is a certain truth to that stereotype, although today's ham is
more likely to be computer-savvy and involved in cutting-edge
technologies. However, from my personal experience, I know them to be
among our nation's best trained and most capable respondents to
disasters. In the hands of the amateur radio volunteers, disaster
communications become orderly and prioritized, as they employ the
protocols and training received in gaining their licenses. As director
of one of the nation's largest ...


snip

There were sixty knee jerk responses screaming at Tom Barlow, N8NLO.
They want him to fry in hell for suggesting such a thing as the demise
of ham radio in our generation.

But I agree with this one..

Pete, WA7JTM said...

I think Amateur Radio's biggest problem is that the government may
decide to auction off the ham bands to commercial interests. We aren't
a money generator, so why should they keep us? The computer and cell
phones have made us a curiosity more than an asset, even for
emergencies.

The biggest problem I see in the short term is how Amateur Radio is
being degraded by the type of people we are bringing into the hobby.
In the zest to increase our numbers we may be giving away the farm.

Many of the new hams I am seeing (especially on the on the VHF bands)
are apparently right off of CB are completely ignorant of any sort of
radio, and apparently personal, ethics. They tend to hang out
together, generally avoiding real hams operators, and listening to
them sounds like I am listening to channel 27. The language, and their
operating skills, are deplorable. I am not sure they can be
"retrained" out of their bad CB ways. When I listen to them operate I
am ashamed to be associated with them...we are simply not the same
type of people.

I think a massive wave of CB immigrants is a big problem if they
choose not to learn the operating skills, etiquette, and fraternity of
real Amateur Radio Operators. Time will tell if they conform to
Amateur Radio or simply conform Amateur Radio to a glorified CB.

On Sep 5, 10:00*am, Larry <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > Monitor net activities which will begin at 6pm eastern,
> > <---------------
> > 2300 UTC Friday
>
> What is the DIRECT link to the MP3 server without the company spam and
> other nonsense? *Which stream is this playing on??

For those challenged by ports and such use this simple URL
http://icecast2.scanamerica.us/scancharleston for Charleston Police
and Fire and (
Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester Counties, provided by
ScanCharleston.com until Hanna passes)

Also
KC4QLP-R VoIP Hurricane Net is being streamed by this web site at the
following URL
http://icecast2.scanamerica.us/voip-skywarn

Those URLs will also work with the iPhone Tuner Application and other
streaming capable SmartPhones.

More info can be found at



http://sc.scanamerica.us/index.php?county=Charleston

Change the player link to iTunes and you can listen on your PC or Mac
with a simple click.