[OKDXA] Possible Packet Cluster Node

[Kim Elmore]

The National Severe Storms Laboratory (where I work) will be moving to the 
new Weather Center sometime around the 2005-2006 time frame. The Weather 
Center will have a tower on the roof whose overall height will be something 
like 150' above the ground.  It may be possible to install a DX Packet 
Cluster node in the Weather Center with an antenna at the top of the tower 
and have access to the Big Pipe that feeds the Weather Center data. I have 
a radio I'd donate to the cause, and would even consider a 70 cm 9600 bps 
system. I don't know what the coverage would be from here, but with an 
antenna on a modest tower, I'd expect the coverage would be modest, as in 
most of OKC to the north and an equivalent distance everywhere else.

We'd have the best chance of pulling this off if something were installed 
here (at NSSL or possibly NWS) before the move, as then it would constitute 
a "legacy" system. We'd have to supply the hardware and software, but they 
would supply the housing, electricity and data feed. Is there any interest 
in this from OKDXA?

Kim Elmore, N5OP
                           Kim Elmore, Ph.D.
                        University of Oklahoma
         Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
"All of weather is divided into three parts: Yes, No, and Maybe. The
greatest of these is Maybe" The original Latin appears to be garbled.