[GreenKeys] Hurricane Tracking site...

[hunybuny at eskimo.com]

Neat!

In the late 60's I had one of my general coverage receivers
set to WBR-70 one of the 60WPM 860Hz RTTY stations that
transmitted weather along with the code groups.

I built SEL-CALs like you wouldn't believe and made one
just for this station. I had it set to trip on words like
"tropical", "hurricane", "graded" (as in UPgraded or DOWNgraded),
and "special".

I used to track the storms throughout the Atlantic. It
was great to hear the station sending continuously and
the 28-KSR going off only on things I could understand.

I tell yah - I just wanna cry when I tune the shortwave
bands and the only decent RTTY station I heard is the
one that sends data in some weird format.

73,
W6ESE - tony
NNNNZCZC


Don Robert House wrote:
> At great risk of assassination I pass this along...  (Teletypes were  
> used at NOAA for a long time)

-- 
Tony J. Podrasky | Excerpt from PODRASKY'S DICTIONARY of
                  | "What They REALLY MEAN When They Say".
                  | The definition of the term "IN THEORY":
                  | Noun (scientific/technical talk): "Not Really".