[NLRS] Places to live in Texas

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

On my Texas map, Kerrville is about 60 miles NW of San Antonio which is 
definitely southerly in Texas West SW of Austin. San Antonio is the same 
latitude as Del Rio and a little south of Houston. Practically the same 
latitude as Galveston. I think Kerrville is definitely in Texas Hill 
Country. About 120 miles from Mexico. Topo 4 says 1100 feet higher than 
Austin and 1000 feet higher than San Antonio, but 300 feet lower than 
locations north and west of Kerrville.

73, Jerry, K0CQ

On 3/19/2011 9:56 PM, BARRY MALOWANCHUK wrote:
> I think W3XO lives in what would be considered to be southern Texas
> ...close to the Mexican border
> Barry VE4MA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj at weather.net>
> Date: Saturday, March 19, 2011 8:36 pm
> Subject: Re: [NLRS] Places to live in Texas
> To: nlrs at mailman.qth.net
>
>  >
>  >
>  > In the Dallas McKinney corridor 48 years ago, the distant
>  > suburban towns
>  > were mostly on hill tops. Though even then the town limits were
>  > miles
>  > from the town centers. I lived in Allen between Plano and
>  > McKinney a
>  > couple years, '64 to '66. Based on my description of where I
>  > lived (a
>  > town of 2000 then surrounded by farms and ranches, at least
>  > 50,000 today
>  > without farmland for miles) W5LUA who lives in an eastern part
>  > of Allen
>  > can't find where I lived. I spent some time with the satellite
>  > or aerial
>  > images from Google maps last month and I can find the town
>  > center but I
>  > can't find the road, the duplex, the water tower or the power
>  > substation
>  > that marked where I lived. Its all been bulldozed bare and paved
>  > over
>  > (though it was only 2' to solid limestone in my backyard).
>  >
>  > Back to those hill tops. The annual rainfall at Dallas was about
>  > 24
>  > inches a year. The two years I was there each year half that
>  > amount came
>  > from one rain event. One year it was just overnight and all the
>  > fanciest
>  > homes built in the trees along the creeks were underwater up
>  > past the
>  > eaves. The other year that foot took a whole week and flooding
>  > wasn't so
>  > bad.
>  >
>  > I remember mornings with a southern breeze (lots of gulf
>  > humidity) when
>  > it was 95 at sun up and foggy. That made for a miserable day
>  > outside and
>  > running the AC the first month cost more than I expected and I
>  > didn't
>  > run it again. I just roasted. I had an allergic reaction to the
>  > plentiful and inexpensive seafood that I hadn't yet identified
>  > so I was
>  > fairly miserable in Texas too. Those events surely biased my
>  > likes and
>  > dislikes.
>  >
>  > Like Bill Smith (was VHF editor of QST long ago) I like Iowa
>  > better than
>  > Texas. Bill would say you need to know the Spanish language
>  > there these
>  > days. He ran businesses in Dallas involving cable TV equipment.
>  >
>  > W3XO could be a good resource about living in mid Texas, since
>  > he's
>  > lived there a decade or more.
>  >
>  > 73, Jerry, K0CQ
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > On 3/19/2011 7:52 PM, Donn wrote:
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > A couple of times I've driven between Austin and San
>  > Antonio... NOT along I-35
>  > > but farther west, along US281. This is in or at least
>  > along the edge of the
>  > > "Hill Country." I thought it was beautiful country...
>  > not too unlike central NY
>  > > although no where near as wet and no lakes. :-)
>  > >
>  > > Tommy, K5VH, lives in Dripping Springs, west of Austin.
>  > Appears to be a nice
>  > > little town. I'm guessing its a reasonable commute into
>  > Austin, but don't know.
>  > >
>  > > I remember some decent hills along US281 between Marble Falls
>  > (NW of Austin) to
>  > > south of Blanco (west of Austin).
>  > >
>  > > Central States In San Antonio in July 2007 was WET, but
>  > normally its dry and
>  > > hot. I was in Austin at the end of April in 2005 and
>  > thought I'd suffocate when
>  > > they opened the plane door. VERY hot and humid.
>  > Later that day, a cool front
>  > > moved through and it was simply beautiful the rest of the long
>  > weekend.>
>  > > 73 Donn
>  > > WA2VOI/0
>  > >
>  > >
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