From nz4o at tampabay.rr.com Fri Jan 1 06:36:52 2010 From: nz4o at tampabay.rr.com (Thomas F. Giella NZ4O) Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 09:36:52 -0500 Subject: 2009 Lakeland FL Climatological Weather Observations Message-ID: <3A6CD493CEE64548A1EE12283CA88B79@YOUR5BFDF7BC50> December 2009 Lakeland FL Climatological Weather Observations http://www.nz4o.com/nz4o158.htm 2009 Lakeland FL Climatological Weather Observations http://www.nz4o.com/nz4o77.htm a.. 2009 WEATHER EXTREMES b.. DEG F " % DEG F " c.. MONTH MAX/MIN 24 HOUR MAX/MIN MAX/MIN MAX/MIN d.. TEMP PRECIP RH DP BP e.. JAN 82/26 0.56 100/24 71/13 30.50/29.64 f.. FEB 82/27 0.62 100/17 69/10 30.60/29.81 g.. MAR 87/30 0.41 100/23 71/17 30.32/29.75 h.. APR 90/41 0.79 100/21 74/31 30.31/29.70 i.. MAY 95/64 4.27 96/27 78/55 30.22/29.77 j.. JUN 96/65 1.73 94/39 82/60 30.07/29.66 k.. JUL 94/69 1.01 100/45 80/67 30.17/29.81 l.. AUG 95/72 2.44 96/46 80/66 30.18/29.83 m.. SEP 93/64 2.38 100/42 80/53 30.07/29.83 n.. OCT 94/46 0.84 100/33 79/40 30.21/29.75 o.. NOV 85/41 0.54 100/28 74/31 30.06/29.95 p.. DEC 84/33 0.94 100/31 75/29 30.34/29.55 q.. r.. 2009 WEATHER AVERAGES s.. MONTH MEAN MEAN MEAN MONTH t.. MAX MIN MONTH DEP PRECIP DEP u.. JAN 70.5 47.2 58.8 1.66 v.. FEB 71.4 46.7 59.0 0.77 w.. MAR 78.5 54.0 66.2 0.97 x.. APR 82.2 59.1 70.6 1.42 y.. MAY 88.1 67.6 77.9 15.21 z.. JUN 90.3 72.2 81.2 6.69 aa.. JUL 89.9 73.6 81.7 5.45 ab.. AUG 91.4 74.6 83.0 7.00 ac.. SEP 88.7 72.3 80.5 7.30 ad.. OCT 86.5 66.7 76.6 1.09 ae.. NOV 77.7 57.5 67.6 1.23 af.. DEC 71.5 53.5 62.5 3.86 ag.. Total 52.71 ah.. Ave 82.2 62.0 72.1 Happy New year 2010,Thomas F. Giella, NZ4OLakeland, FL, USnz4o at arrl.netJohn 3:16 <> From nz4o at tampabay.rr.com Fri Jan 1 06:50:15 2010 From: nz4o at tampabay.rr.com (Thomas F. Giella NZ4O) Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 09:50:15 -0500 Subject: 2009 Lakeland FL Climatological Weather Observations Message-ID: <511A301AD21B40339697040A4447F990@YOUR5BFDF7BC50> Sorry but the web page links in my last weather related email did not work for some reason. For those interested the working links are below. 2009 Lakeland FL Climatological Weather Observations: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o22.htm December 2009 Lakeland FL Climatological Weather Observations: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o158.htm Happy New year 2010, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, US nz4o at arrl.net John 3:16 <>< CWOP #AR692/NZ4O CoCoRaHs #FL-PK-18 NWS Skywarn #POL-10A Lakeland FL Weather Observations: http://www.wcflunatall.com/index1.html Florida & U.S. Raw Weather Forecasting Resource Links: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o13.htm Lakeland, FL Daily Climatological Weather Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o22.htm Harmful Man Induced Climate Change (Global Warming) Refuted: http://www.wcflunatall.com/globalwarminglie.htm NZ4O Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o1.htm From nz4o at tampabay.rr.com Fri Jan 1 09:03:21 2010 From: nz4o at tampabay.rr.com (Thomas F. Giella NZ4O) Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 12:03:21 -0500 Subject: NZ4O Propagation Forecast #2010-01 Message-ID: <53DE0CE4405E4B64BABBC9E4AE784D02@YOUR5BFDF7BC50> The NZ4O Daily LF/MF/HF/6M Frequency Radiowave Propagation Forecast #2010-01 has been published on Friday 01/01/2009 at 1700 UTC, valid 0000 UTC Saturday 01/02/2010 through 2359 UTC Friday 01/08/2009 at http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o3.htm . 73 & GUD DX, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, USA nz4o at arrl.net LF/MF/HF/VHF/UHF Frequency Radiowave Propagation Email Reflector: http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/spaceweather NZ4O Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o1.htm NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data In Graphic & Image Format: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o2.htm NZ4O Daily LF/MF/HF/6M Frequency Radiowave Propagation Forecast & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o3.htm NZ4O Solar Cycle 24 Forecast Discussion & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o4.htm NZ4O 160 Meter Radio Propagation Theory Notes: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o5.htm NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Raw Forecast Data Links: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o6.htm From eschmidt191 at hotmail.com Fri Jan 1 09:10:00 2010 From: eschmidt191 at hotmail.com (Eric Schmidt) Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 12:10:00 -0500 Subject: [LakelandARC] swr meter In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 507 Powder Horn Row, Lakeland FL 33809. just off old polk city road near soccrum loop. You can come over anytime Saturday or late Sunday if you want to? 864 669 5377 Thanks for your help From: phil Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 12:44 PM To: LakelandARC at yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [LakelandARC] swr meter eric....where do you live....I can come over and help check things out...hitting the repeater ANYWHERE within a 40 mile area whith 10 or so watts on the outskirks no problem...I have good equipment to help as with others...let us know...Phil K4bhe ----- Original Message ----- From: Eric Schmidt To: lakelandarc at yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:20 AM Subject: [LakelandARC] swr meter Happy holidays, from W2VM it's been a while, and my health is finally allowing me to mess with my radio. I was wonder if any one had any suggestions on an swr bridge or meter for my FT-8800R radio. I am having trouble reaching the repeater since I moved the unit into my house and put antenna on roof. I suspect it's a loose connection. Do you thin the Diamon SX40C will work. I'm trying to stay away from MFJ, I read a lot of bad stuff about their meters. http://www.rfparts.com/diamond/sx40c.html Thanks Eric -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nz4o at tampabay.rr.com Sat Jan 2 07:43:49 2010 From: nz4o at tampabay.rr.com (Thomas F. Giella NZ4O) Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 10:43:49 -0500 Subject: Subfreezing Minimum Temperatures On The Way Message-ID: Guys and Gals I don't send out weather forecasts like I once did due to personal time restraints. However as we face an extended significant freeze threat I decided to address the situation. Unfortunately some of the subfreezing minimum temperatures will occur with wind (advection freeze), making it difficult to protect crops and ornamental plants. As follows are GFS model maximum/minimum temperatures forecasted for Lakeland Linder Airport. SAT 02| SUN 03| MON 04| TUE 05| WED 06| THU 07| FRI 08| SAT 09 KLAL LAKELAND AP 54| 29 51| 27 54| 30 53| 26 53| 31 58| 33 57| 30 54 As follows are NWS COOP maximum/minimum temperatures for Polk County and surrounding areas. SAT 02 SUN 03 MON 04 TUE 05 WED 06 THU 07 FRI 08 SAT 09 LAKELAND 2 FL 56 28/53 30/57 30/56 27/55 33/62 37/62 30/59 PLANT CITY FL 57 28/52 26/56 28/55 26/56 31/62 36/61 30/58 BARTOW FL 62 31/57 32/60 31/58 29/59 35/63 39/65 33/61 AVON PARK 2 W FL 58 29/53 25/56 28/56 26/59 31/63 37/63 34/61 LAKE WALES FL 61 28/57 29/58 28/58 27/59 32/64 36/65 36/60 Happy New year 2010, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, US nz4o at arrl.net John 3:16 <>< CWOP #AR692/NZ4O CoCoRaHs #FL-PK-18 NWS Skywarn #POL-10A Lakeland FL Weather Observations: http://www.wcflunatall.com/index1.html Florida & U.S. Raw Weather Forecasting Resource Links: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o13.htm Lakeland, FL Daily Climatological Weather Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o22.htm Harmful Man Induced Climate Change (Global Warming) Refuted: http://www.wcflunatall.com/globalwarminglie.htm NZ4O Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o1.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gilly at metrocast.net Sat Jan 2 08:13:29 2010 From: gilly at metrocast.net (Gilly) Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 08:13:29 -0800 Subject: [LakelandARC] Subfreezing Minimum Temperatures On The Way References: Message-ID: <76D48B85CBCA4D7E843B149BEFB4AE95@new24be31e8bed> Thanks Tom, I guess I will start prepping the garden for the onslaught....great work.......'gil" kd1ic .. ----- Original Message ----- From: Thomas F. Giella NZ4O To: Thomas F. Giella NZ4O Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 7:43 AM Subject: [LakelandARC] Subfreezing Minimum Temperatures On The Way Guys and Gals I don't send out weather forecasts like I once did due to personal time restraints. However as we face an extended significant freeze threat I decided to address the situation. Unfortunately some of the subfreezing minimum temperatures will occur with wind (advection freeze), making it difficult to protect crops and ornamental plants. As follows are GFS model maximum/minimum temperatures forecasted for Lakeland Linder Airport. SAT 02| SUN 03| MON 04| TUE 05| WED 06| THU 07| FRI 08| SAT 09 KLAL LAKELAND AP 54| 29 51| 27 54| 30 53| 26 53| 31 58| 33 57| 30 54 As follows are NWS COOP maximum/minimum temperatures for Polk County and surrounding areas. SAT 02 SUN 03 MON 04 TUE 05 WED 06 THU 07 FRI 08 SAT 09 LAKELAND 2 FL 56 28/53 30/57 30/56 27/55 33/62 37/62 30/59 PLANT CITY FL 57 28/52 26/56 28/55 26/56 31/62 36/61 30/58 BARTOW FL 62 31/57 32/60 31/58 29/59 35/63 39/65 33/61 AVON PARK 2 W FL 58 29/53 25/56 28/56 26/59 31/63 37/63 34/61 LAKE WALES FL 61 28/57 29/58 28/58 27/59 32/64 36/65 36/60 Happy New year 2010, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, US nz4o at arrl.net John 3:16 <>< CWOP #AR692/NZ4O CoCoRaHs #FL-PK-18 NWS Skywarn #POL-10A Lakeland FL Weather Observations: http://www.wcflunatall.com/index1.html Florida & U.S. Raw Weather Forecasting Resource Links: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o13.htm Lakeland, FL Daily Climatological Weather Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o22.htm Harmful Man Induced Climate Change (Global Warming) Refuted: http://www.wcflunatall.com/globalwarminglie.htm NZ4O Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o1.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mjcjohn at juno.com Sat Jan 2 10:47:28 2010 From: mjcjohn at juno.com (ki4cdz) Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:47:28 -0000 Subject: Club meeting - dues Message-ID: For those who have not as yet paid dues to renew membership in the club, I expect to be at the LARC club meeting Monday, Jan. 4 to accept dues payments. Please pay by check or, if paying with cash, try to have the exact amount available, as I may or may not be able to make change. Dues for 2010 are the same as for previous years. For anyone who cannot be at the club meeting, dues payment can be mailed to the club address, P.O. box 792, Eaton Park, FL., 33840. Please be aware that membership in the club officially expires at the end of the calendar year, however a 3 month grace period (March 31) is provided before a member is removed from the membership list. However, during this grace period, members, who have not renewed, do not have voting privileges on any matters presented before the club. Marvin KI4CDZ From ki4nbe at yahoo.com Sat Jan 2 16:06:23 2010 From: ki4nbe at yahoo.com (George) Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:06:23 -0000 Subject: Photo Shop Message-ID: Does anyone have a photo shop editor program? I use to have Adobe 7 in an old pc I no long have. I want to make my own QSL Cards. Can Anyone help me out with this? 73 George/KI4NBE From mjcjohn at juno.com Sun Jan 3 11:34:12 2010 From: mjcjohn at juno.com (ki4cdz) Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:34:12 -0000 Subject: Photo Shop In-Reply-To: Message-ID: George I have Print Workshop 2004 on my computor with which I made some QSL cards. I will bring one of them to the meeting Monday for you to look at. 73 Marvin --- In LakelandARC at yahoogroups.com, "George" wrote: > > Does anyone have a photo shop editor program? > I use to have Adobe 7 in an old pc I no long have. > I want to make my own QSL Cards. > Can Anyone help me out with this? > 73 George/KI4NBE > From ki4nbe at yahoo.com Sun Jan 3 15:14:06 2010 From: ki4nbe at yahoo.com (George Gafford Sr) Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 15:14:06 -0800 (PST) Subject: [LakelandARC] Re: Photo Shop In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <15143.65766.qm@web38608.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Thank you Marvin. Gill is bringing one too so between the two I hope I get what I'm looking for. See you at the meeting. 73 de George/KI4NBE --- On Sun, 1/3/10, ki4cdz wrote: From: ki4cdz Subject: [LakelandARC] Re: Photo Shop To: LakelandARC at yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, January 3, 2010, 2:34 PM ? George I have Print Workshop 2004 on my computor with which I made some QSL cards. I will bring one of them to the meeting Monday for you to look at. 73 Marvin --- In LakelandARC@ yahoogroups. com, "George" wrote: > > Does anyone have a photo shop editor program? > I use to have Adobe 7 in an old pc I no long have. > I want to make my own QSL Cards. > Can Anyone help me out with this? > 73 George/KI4NBE > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nz4o at tampabay.rr.com Mon Jan 4 14:41:45 2010 From: nz4o at tampabay.rr.com (Thomas F. Giella NZ4O) Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 17:41:45 -0500 Subject: Freeze Warnings Message-ID: <0E28F8CBA1D0445A94C50CD5418B8977@YOUR5BFDF7BC50> Hi Don I had 30.9 deg with a 5-8 mph wind all night. My weather station in Nobleton in Sumter County had 22 deg. The strawberry growers measure temperature at the one foot level but I guess that your data gives them an idea of what's going on in the rural areas. Boy does it look cold for the next eight days with sub freezing minimum temperatures probable every night except on Friday morning the 8th. Snow looks possible on or around Saturday the 9th. It all looks like a carbon copy repeat of January 1977 when the west central peninsula saw 1-3". January 1977 saw a strong west based El Nino (+1.9) and we have the exact same setup again. Happy New year 2010, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, US nz4o at arrl.net CWOP #AR692/NZ4O CoCoRaHs #FL-PK-18 NWS Skywarn #POL-10A Lakeland FL Weather Observations: http://www.wcflunatall.com/index1.html Florida & U.S. Raw Weather Forecasting Resource Links: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o13.htm Lakeland, FL Daily Climatological Weather Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o22.htm Harmful Man Induced Climate Change (Global Warming) Refuted: http://www.wcflunatall.com/globalwarminglie.htm NZ4O Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o1.htm From nz4o at tampabay.rr.com Mon Jan 4 18:20:32 2010 From: nz4o at tampabay.rr.com (Thomas F. Giella NZ4O) Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 21:20:32 -0500 Subject: Hmmm... Snow? Message-ID: <337EA584A0DB4881A73534F37C57CE3E@YOUR5BFDF7BC50> Hmmm.... AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL 909 PM EST MON JAN 4 2010 .....THERE IS SOME CHANCE THAT WE WILL SEE SOME LIGHT PRECIPITATION RIGHT ALONG THE COAST AS THESE CLOUDS MOVE IN FROM THE GULF. CURRENT FORECAST SOUNDINGS DO NOT SUPPORT SNOW...SO JUST A FEW SPRINKLES IF ANYTHING AT ALL. CURRENT AIR TEMPERATURES OVER THE GULF WATERS HAVE RISEN 2 OR 3 DEGREES OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF HOURS AND ARE IN THE LOWER 50S. EVEN TEMPERATURES RIGHT AT THE COAST ARE 50 DEGREES AT CLEARWATER BEACH...48 AT PORT RICHEY... AND EVEN 45 DEGREES AT CEDAR KEY. THE STRONG COLD AIR ADVECTION WILL BEGIN JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT OVER THE NATURE COAST AND BEFORE DAWN FOR THE TAMPA BAY AREA..... Happy New year 2010, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, US nz4o at arrl.net CWOP #AR692/NZ4O CoCoRaHs #FL-PK-18 NWS Skywarn #POL-10A Lakeland FL Weather Observations: http://www.wcflunatall.com/index1.html Florida & U.S. Raw Weather Forecasting Resource Links: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o13.htm Lakeland, FL Daily Climatological Weather Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o22.htm Harmful Man Induced Climate Change (Global Warming) Refuted: http://www.wcflunatall.com/globalwarminglie.htm NZ4O Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o1.htm From sgagnon at tampabay.rr.com Tue Jan 5 14:16:31 2010 From: sgagnon at tampabay.rr.com (WZ1P) Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:16:31 -0000 Subject: Hmmm... Snow? In-Reply-To: <337EA584A0DB4881A73534F37C57CE3E@YOUR5BFDF7BC50> Message-ID: Hi Tom. Thanks for your frequent weather updates. I find them quite useful. Weather is a great hobby, 73, Dan WZ1P From nz4o at tampabay.rr.com Tue Jan 5 16:33:57 2010 From: nz4o at tampabay.rr.com (Thomas F. Giella NZ4O) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 19:33:57 -0500 Subject: [LakelandARC] Re: Hmmm... Snow? References: Message-ID: <3DCB3CDA97CD4FFE9E93C6298D0EDEB4@YOUR5BFDF7BC50> Hi Dan I'm glad that you find the information useful. As much as I love ham radio it's always been a close second to weather forecasting and observing. Here is the latest GFS forecast model max/min temperatures for Lakeland: WED 06| THU 07| FRI 08| SAT 09| SUN 10| MON 11| TUE 12| WED 13 22 51| 26 62| 41 57| 28 54| 21 53| 23 62| 38 70| 41 Some snow is still a real possibility between Saturday night and Sunday morning January 8-9. Happy New year 2010, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, US nz4o at arrl.net CWOP #AR692/NZ4O CoCoRaHs #FL-PK-18 NWS Skywarn #POL-10A Lakeland FL Weather Observations: http://www.wcflunatall.com/index1.html Florida & U.S. Raw Weather Forecasting Resource Links: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o13.htm Lakeland, FL Daily Climatological Weather Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o22.htm Harmful Man Induced Climate Change (Global Warming) Refuted: http://www.globalwarminglie.org NZ4O Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o1.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: WZ1P To: LakelandARC at yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 5:16 PM Subject: [LakelandARC] Re: Hmmm... Snow? Hi Tom. Thanks for your frequent weather updates. I find them quite useful. Weather is a great hobby, 73, Dan WZ1P -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nz4o at tampabay.rr.com Tue Jan 5 17:48:01 2010 From: nz4o at tampabay.rr.com (Thomas F. Giella NZ4O) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 20:48:01 -0500 Subject: Tonight's Freeze Message-ID: <313ED4E70EFA44C698C423AF9CC9A779@YOUR5BFDF7BC50> Here in normally warmer suburban south Lakeland in the highlands at an elevation of 218 feet the temperature dropped to 32 deg by 8:30 pm. It looks bad and we may end up with a hard freeze of long duration (<28 deg ~12 hours) for much of the inland central peninsula. Here is what NWS Ruskin is saying: 237 FXUS62 KTBW 060029 AFDTBW AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL 729 PM EST TUE JAN 5 2010 UPDATE...TEMPERATURES ARE PLUMMETING. AS IT IS MUCH OF THE AREA DID NOT REACH 50 DEGREES TODAY. DEW POINTS CRASHED WELL BELOW MET GUIDANCE...CLOSER TO WHAT THE MAV WAS SHOWING. WE ALREADY SEE TEMPERATURES DROPPING TO NEAR FREEZING AT 7 PM ACROSS THE INTERIOR. ITS 36 DEGREES IN ONA...33 DEGREES AT THE BROOKSVILLE FAWN...AND GAINESVILLE IS 31 DEGREES. TEMPERATURES ARE ALREADY COLDER THAN OUR GRIDDED FORECAST HAS SO I HAVE LOWERED THEM SIGNIFICANTLY. EXPECT OVERNIGHT LOWS TO BE A FEW DEGREES COLDER THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT AS WELL...SO DROPPED OVERNIGHT LOWS TO AS LOW AS 17 DEGREES IN LEVY COUNTY...LOWER 20S FOR PASCO COUNTY...AND MID 20S MUCH OF THE REST OF THE INTERIOR. I DO THINK DURATIONS OF MID 20S WILL NOT BE SO LONG AS TO REQUIRE AN UPGRADE TO A HARD FREEZE WARNING FROM THE BAY AREA SOUTHWARD...BUT PASCO COUNTY COULD BE CLOSE. IF IT DOES OCCUR THERE...IT WILL BE CONFINED TO THE COUNTY LINE NEAR HERNANDO. WE COULD ALSO SEE SEVERAL HOURS OF SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES IN NORTHWEST LEE COUNTY. BELIEVE THIS WOULD OCCUR OVER A VERY SMALL PORTION OF THE COUNTY SO WILL NOT EXTEND THE FREEZE WARNING THERE AT THIS TIME. IT SHOULD BE NOTED OUR CURRENT FORECAST LOW TEMPERATURES ARE BETWEEN THE VERY COLD MAV AND THE WARMER MET GUIDANCE. IF THE MAV SHOULD VERIFY...HARD FREEZES WILL OCCUR SOUTHWARD THROUGH HIGHLANDS AND DESOTO COUNTIES. UPDATED FORECASTS SHOULD BE OUT NO LATER THAN 830 THIS EVENING. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVIATION DISCUSSION FOR 00Z TAFS. VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED WITH VERY DRY AIR IN PLACE. THERE IS AN INDICATION OF LOWER CLOUDS FORMING ALONG THE COAST AND GULF WATERS AFTER 06Z. HAVE MENTIONED FEW-SCT AROUND 4KFT TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS THRU 12-15Z. OTHERWISE JUST HIGH CLOUDS AND LIGHT NORTHERLY WIND. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MARINE WINDS ARE STILL RUNNING BETWEEN 15 AND 20 KNOTS BUT THE SEAS ARE DOWN TO 5 TO 6 FEET NOW AT THE BUOYS WELL OFFSHORE. WILL ALLOW THE ADVISORY TO EXPIRE AT 10 PM BUT WILL BE HEADLINING EXERCISE CAUTION FOR GUSTY WINDS AND CHOPPY SEAS. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS TPA 30 53 34 60 / 0 0 5 10 FMY 33 58 36 65 / 0 0 5 10 GIF 28 54 30 62 / 0 0 5 10 SRQ 32 55 36 61 / 0 0 5 10 BKV 21 53 25 61 / 0 0 5 10 SPG 36 53 38 59 / 0 0 5 10 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TBW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES FL...RED FLAG WARNING FROM 11 AM TO 5 PM EST WEDNESDAY FOR CHARLOTTE- CITRUS-DE SOTO-HARDEE-HERNANDO-HIGHLANDS-HILLSBOROUGH-LEE- LEVY-MANATEE-PASCO-POLK-SARASOTA-SUMTER. WIND CHILL ADVISORY FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 9 AM EST WEDNESDAY FOR CHARLOTTE-CITRUS-DE SOTO-HARDEE-HERNANDO- HIGHLANDS-HILLSBOROUGH-LEE-LEVY-MANATEE-PASCO-PINELLAS-POLK- SARASOTA-SUMTER. FREEZE WATCH FROM LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING FOR CHARLOTTE-DE SOTO-HARDEE-HIGHLANDS-HILLSBOROUGH-MANATEE- PASCO-POLK-SARASOTA. FREEZE WARNING FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM EST WEDNESDAY FOR CHARLOTTE-DE SOTO-HARDEE-HIGHLANDS-HILLSBOROUGH-MANATEE-PASCO-POLK- SARASOTA. FIRE WEATHER WATCH FROM THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON FOR CITRUS-DE SOTO-HARDEE-HIGHLANDS-LEVY-POLK- SUMTER. HARD FREEZE WARNING FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM EST WEDNESDAY FOR CITRUS- HERNANDO-LEVY-SUMTER. HARD FREEZE WATCH FROM LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING FOR CITRUS-HERNANDO-LEVY-SUMTER. GULF WATERS...NONE. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE/MARINE...JILLSON AVIATION...JOHNSON Happy New year 2010, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, US nz4o at arrl.net CWOP #AR692/NZ4O CoCoRaHs #FL-PK-18 NWS Skywarn #POL-10A Lakeland FL Weather Observations: http://www.wcflunatall.com/index1.html Florida & U.S. Raw Weather Forecasting Resource Links: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o13.htm Lakeland, FL Daily Climatological Weather Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o22.htm Harmful Man Induced Climate Change (Global Warming) Refuted: http://www.globalwarminglie.org NZ4O Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o1.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nz4o at tampabay.rr.com Wed Jan 6 06:41:27 2010 From: nz4o at tampabay.rr.com (Thomas F. Giella NZ4O) Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 09:41:27 -0500 Subject: New (Old) sunspot Group? Message-ID: <2E9C0EC0D574413FB75B97E6C666DFD8@YOUR5BFDF7BC50> Posted Wednesday January 6, 2010 at 1400 UTC Solar cycle 24 sunspot group #11039 has set around the western limb of the Sun. Old solar cycle 24 sunspot group #11038 has risen around the eastern limb of the Sun. At the moment it appears to contain a spot or two but is difficult to tell for sure at the moment. If so and it survives then NOAA/SWPC will re-number it #11040. The solar flux index values are 69.2 76.8 75.1 and the sunspot number 13. 73, GUD DX, Happy New Year 2010, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, USA nz4o at arrl.net COL LF/MF/HF/VHF/UHF Frequency Radiowave Propagation Email Reflector: http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/spaceweather NZ4O Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o1.htm NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data In Graphic & Image Format: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o2.htm NZ4O Daily LF/MF/HF/6M Frequency Radiowave Propagation Forecast & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o3.htm NZ4O Solar Cycle 24 Forecast Discussion & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o4.htm NZ4O 160 Meter Radio Propagation Theory Notes: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o5.htm NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Raw Forecast Data Links: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o6.htm Harmful Man Induced Climate Change (Global Warming) Refuted: http://www.globalwarminglie.org From nz4o at tampabay.rr.com Wed Jan 6 09:19:55 2010 From: nz4o at tampabay.rr.com (Thomas F. Giella NZ4O) Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:19:55 -0500 Subject: Very Cold In Florida Message-ID: <0E7524C1ECCB49C6AFBDF05767F41F1D@YOUR5BFDF7BC50> Officially Crestview AP was the cold spot in the north and state this morning at 15 deg. Other notable minimum temperatures across the north- CWOP DW3846 Mossy Head- 15 CWOP KI4ZBO Lake City- 15 CWOP W7KHH Bonifay- 16 Tallahassee AP- 17 Bloxham RAWS- 18 Perry AP- 19 Sandborn RAWS- 19 On the central peninsula Archbold COOP had 18 deg. Other notable minimum temperatures central- Nobleton East- 20 Lake Woodruff Dam COOP- 20 CWOP 6582 Lakeland- 21 CWOP 1327 Holder- 22 Scottsmoor COOP- 22 Tampa AP- 27 (urban heat island) Orlando AP-32 (urban heat island) On the south peninsula Palmdale FAWN had 26 deg. Other notable minimum temperatures south- Muse COOP- 26 deg. Panther West RAWS- 28 CWOP 1790 Lehigh Acres- 28 Immokalee FAWN- 29 Miami AP- 40 (urban heat island) Happy New year 2010, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, US nz4o at arrl.net John 3:16 <>< CWOP #AR692/NZ4O CoCoRaHs #FL-PK-18 NWS Skywarn #POL-10A Lakeland FL Weather Observations: http://www.wcflunatall.com/index1.html Florida & U.S. Raw Weather Forecasting Resource Links: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o13.htm Lakeland, FL Daily Climatological Weather Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o22.htm Harmful Man Induced Climate Change (Global Warming) Refuted: http://www.globalwarminglie.org NZ4O Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o1.htm From ki4nbe at yahoo.com Wed Jan 6 09:48:45 2010 From: ki4nbe at yahoo.com (George) Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:48:45 -0000 Subject: Photo's Message-ID: Hi Bill KI4ZMV, Was hoping you still have all those photo's you took Monday night at the meeting/VE testing? If so be kind to email me a copy of them? 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Anyway Meteorologist Alan Huffman (see link below) has also now picked up on the possible snow in Florida scenario. However just because more of us are mentioning it doesn't increase the likelihood of it happening. http://www.examiner.com/x-4053-Raleigh-Weather-Examiner~y2010m1d6-Very-cold-weather-to-grip-the-US-deep-into-Texas-and-Florida?cid=examiner-email . Also here is part of the latest forecast discussion from NWS Miami- .....TO PUT IT BLUNTLY...THE WEATHER ACROSS SOUTH FLORIDA FROM FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY MORNING SHOULD BE MISERABLE...AS MODELS CONTINUE TO INDICATE AN ACTIVE SUBTROPICAL JET RESULTING IN WIDESPREAD CLOUD COVER AND SHOWER ACTIVITY...WITH COLD AND BLUSTERY CONDITIONS AT THE SURFACE...AS A SIBERIAN SURFACE HIGH DROPS SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR HIGH TEMPERATURES ON SATURDAY TO BE SIGNIFICANTLY COOLER THAN EVEN MEX GUIDANCE SUGGESTS...AND MAY NOT MAKE IT OUT OF THE 40S IN SOME AREAS. ALTHOUGH UNCERTAINTY PRECLUDES ADDING MIXED PRECIPITATION TO THE FORECAST AT THIS TIME...THERE IS ALSO A REMOTE CHANCE THAT SOME SLEET OR ICE PELLETS MAY MIX WITH RAIN IN THE LAKE OKEECHOBEE AREA ON SATURDAY/SATURDAY NIGHT. REGARDLESS... A VERY COLD AIR MASS WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD ACROSS THE AREA ON SATURDAY NIGHT...WITH RAIN CHANCES AND CLOUD COVER GRADUALLY DIMINISHING FROM NORTH TO SOUTH. THERE IS AN ELEVATED POTENTIAL FOR FREEZING TEMPERATURES ON SATURDAY NIGHT...BUT THIS WILL BE DEPENDENT ON HOW QUICKLY CLOUDS DEPART. THE GFS/ECMWF AGREE THAT A SECONDARY MID-LEVEL VORT MAX MOVING AROUND BASE OF DEEP UPPER TROUGH OVER EASTERN NORTH AMERICA WILL MOVE ACROSS THE PENINSULA ON SUNDAY...AND INDUCE SURFACE CYCLOGENESIS OVER THE ATLANTIC WATERS EAST OF THE PENINSULA. THIS WILL ALLOW BRISK NORTHWEST WINDS TO INCREASE EVEN FURTHER...WITH COLD TEMPERATURES EXPECTED THROUGH THE DAY ON SUNDAY...AND AN EVEN HIGHER FREEZE POTENTIAL ON SUNDAY NIGHT/MONDAY MORNING. A GRADUAL WARMING TREND IS STILL EXPECTED FROM MONDAY-WEDNESDAY...... NWS Melbourne- WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T MENTION THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME LIGHT MIXED PRECIP BEHIND THE INTIAL FRONTAL SURGE. DATA FROM BOTH GLOBAL AND MESOSCALE MODELS INCLUDING TIME SECTIONS/RAOBS INDICATE STRONG LOW LEVEL ADVECTION OF COLD DRY AIR BENEATH A SATURATED AIR MASS ABOVE H8-H7 AS THE POS TILT H50 TROUGH LAGS WELL BEHIND THE FRONT. NEAR THE END OF THE EVENT...BEFORE THE DRY AIR DEEPENS...GUIDANCE CONTINUE TO SPIT OUT SOME PRECIP OUT OF THE MID LEVELS AS THE 0C H85 LINE SHIFTS SWD INTO THE NRN/CTRL CWA (BREVARD/OSCEOLA COUNTIES NWD) SOUNDINGS INDICATE THAT ANY FROZEN P-TYPE COULD FALL AS SOME LIGHT SNOWFLAKES/GRAUPEL OR SLEET. OF COURSE...TEMP/RH FIELDS WOULD HAVE TO ALIGN JUST RIGHT FOR THIS TO TAKE PLACE - FOR EXAMPLE COLD AIR ADVECTION COULD LAG...OR DRY ADVECTION COULD OCCUR STRONGER/FASTER THAN MODELS ADVERTISE - SO A LOT CAN HAPPEN TO CAUSE MIXED PRECIP *NOT* TO FALL IN THIS CASE. HOWEVER...FROZEN PRECIP IS NOT AS RARE IN ECFL (E.G. 2003, 2006 AND 2008) AS ONE MIGHT THINK. And last but not least NWS Tampa Bay- .....INTERESTING SCENARIO TO SET UP FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY BEFORE FINISHING THE COLD SNAP. LATEST MODELS DEEPEN MID-UPPER TROUGH INTO THE W GULF WITH SERIES OF VORTICITY MAXES ROTATING OFF THE CENTRAL TO E GULF OVER THE AREA IN FAST JET SW FLOW. SURFACE COLD FRONT STALLING OVER THE SOUTHERN TIP OF THE FL PENINSULA WITH COLD ARCTIC HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING INTO THE REGION FROM THE PLAINS STATES. MODELS SOUNDINGS AND TIME HEIGHT SECTIONS FROM AROUND THE AREA SHOWING OVERRUNNING TYPE RAIN SHIELD AND WITH GOOD UPPER DYNAMICS AFTER 06Z. MOS POPS HAVE INCREASED WITH THIS SET UP AS WELL AND HAVE RAISED POPS AREAWIDE BY 10 PERCENT TO SLIGHT CHANCE N AND CHANCE CENTRAL AND SOUTH LATE FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING. NOW THE COMPLICATED PART... SURFACE TEMPS TO BE COLD WITH OVERNIGHT LOWS IN THE 20S OVER THE NATURE COAST...LOWER TO MID 30S AROUND THE BAY AREA AND MID TO UPPER 30S SOUTHERN AND COASTAL AREAS. THESE LOW SURFACE TEMPS COMBINED WITH POPS WOULD INDICATED THE SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SOME FROZEN PRECIP...SO WILL CAUTIOUSLY DISCUSS. AROUND 12Z SATURDAY EXPECT SATURATED ENVIRONMENT ABOVE 10K FT FOR LIGHT TO MODERATE PRECIP THEN WARM LAYER BETWEEN 700-900MB FOR COLD RAIN..THEN COLDER BELOW FREEZING LAYER FROM 900-1000MB THEN SOME WARMER SLIGHT ABOVE 32 DEGREE AIR AT/NEAR THE SURFACE. SO CURRENT THINKING IS PRIMARILY A COLD RAIN AND RAW CONDITIONS LATE FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY WITH THE SLIMMEST OF CHANCES OF A FROZEN MIX/BLEND AROUND 12Z SATURDAY. COLD DRY NW FLOW ALOFT AND ARCTIC HIGH PRESSURE AT THE SURFACE OVER THE REGION TO PRODUCE ANOTHER ROUND OF HARD FREEZE AND FREEZING CONDITIONS AREAWIDE TO END THE WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK..... If frozen precipitation does occur it could just be some sleet/ice pellets and or a mix to include snowflakes and most likely across the central peninsula and even south central peninsula. Or it could be a measureable 1-3" like fell across the central peninsula in January 1977. As I mentioned in a previous email the synoptic weather pattern is identical to the January 1977 snow episode. Also tonight looks to be another significant freeze event. With a new influx of cold dry air today (dewpoints in the single digits and teens), tonight could be the coldest night yet as winds should die down considerably to near calm to at times totally calm for extended periods of time, as it now appears that the Arctic high pressure system will settle across the central peninsula later tonight. However a bit of subtropical jet stream cirrus/CS is headed for the central peninsula and this could hold temperatures up some. So we could see a hard freeze event (<27 deg. for at least four hours) deep into inland rural south peninsula. Coastal and even urban areas are likely to see temperatures near, at or just below freezing. In reality minimum temperatures could dip as low as the mid and upper teens in inland rural areas of the north and north central peninsula. Upper teens to mid 20's in the inland rural central and south central peninsula and low to mid 20's in the inland rural south peninsula. Once again these temperatures are for inland rural agricultural areas, not major suburban and urban areas. Happy New year 2010, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, US nz4o at arrl.net John 3:16 <>< CWOP #AR692/NZ4O CoCoRaHs #FL-PK-18 NWS Skywarn #POL-10A Lakeland FL Weather Observations: http://www.wcflunatall.com/index1.html Florida & U.S. Raw Weather Forecasting Resource Links: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o13.htm Lakeland, FL Daily Climatological Weather Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o22.htm Harmful Man Induced Climate Change (Global Warming) Refuted: http://www.globalwarminglie.org NZ4O Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o1.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nz4o at tampabay.rr.com Thu Jan 7 11:00:28 2010 From: nz4o at tampabay.rr.com (Thomas F. Giella NZ4O) Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 14:00:28 -0500 Subject: Snow Still Possible On Saturday January 9th Message-ID: Jesse Ferrell of AccuWeather made mention in his weather blog of a possible Florida snow event for Saturday night at: http://vortex.accuweather.com/adc2004/pub/includes/columns/community/2010/snow107as.jpg and http://www.accuweather.com/mt-news-blogs.asp?partner=accuweather&blog=weathermatrix . If you check out the latest GFS model meteograms for Tampa http://wxmaps.org/pix/tpagfs.png and Orlando http://wxmaps.org/pix/mcogfs.png some frozen precipitation is still being forecasted on Saturday. NWS Tampa Bay, Melbourne and Miami are also still mentioning the small possibility of some frozen precipitation. Also we face another significant freeze threat between Sunday the 10th and Tuesday the 12th. I'm going to be pretty busy with other non weather stuff between Friday the 8th and next Monday the 11th and may not have time to comment on any weather goings on. If anyone does observe snow flakes, sleet/ice pellet, etc. over the weekend please feel free to send me an email at nz4o at tampabay.rr.com . As we all know it was pretty chilly again this morning with many minimum temperature records falling once again. Officially Tallahassee AP was the cold spot in the north and state this morning at 17 deg. Other notable minimum temperatures across the north- CWOP KI4ZBO Lake City- 17 CWOP 7748 High Springs- 18 Cross City AP- 18 Perry AP- 18 Crestview AP- 19 Mayo COOP- 19 CWOP 2450 Trenton- 19 Bloxham RAWS- 19 Jacksonville Cecil AP- 19 On the central peninsula Nobleton East and CWOP 1327 Holder had 18 deg. Other notable minimum temperatures central- Lake Woodruff Dam COOP- 19 Brooksville AP- 19 Inverness COOP- 20 Mount Plymouth COOP- 20 Ocala AP- 21 CWOP 6582 Lakeland- 21 Scottsmoor COOP- 21 Okahumpka FAWN- 22 CWOP KF4ORW-2 Dade City- 22 CWOP WX4DAN Valrico (Tampa)- 22 Tampa Executive AP-25 Tampa AP- 36 (urban heat island) Orlando AP-30 (urban heat island) On the south peninsula MUSE COOP had 26 deg. Other notable minimum temperatures south- Palmdale FAWN- 28 Ortona COOP- 29 Brighton COOP- 29 Clewiston COOP- 30 Immokalee FAWN- 31 South Bay COOP- 31 Devils Garden COOP- 32 Miami AP- 44 (urban heat island) The south peninsula stayed warmer due to the high clouds that I mentioned in my last email. Happy New year 2010, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, US nz4o at arrl.net John 3:16 <>< CWOP #AR692/NZ4O CoCoRaHs #FL-PK-18 NWS Skywarn #POL-10A Lakeland FL Weather Observations: http://www.wcflunatall.com/index1.html Florida & U.S. Raw Weather Forecasting Resource Links: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o13.htm Lakeland, FL Daily Climatological Weather Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o22.htm Harmful Man Induced Climate Change (Global Warming) Refuted: http://www.globalwarminglie.org NZ4O Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o1.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kg4yni at arrl.net Fri Jan 8 04:54:51 2010 From: kg4yni at arrl.net (Ernie) Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 07:54:51 -0500 Subject: Archive Message-ID: <00ce01ca9061$c4a70cb0$4df52610$@net> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/x-ygp-stripped Size: 126 bytes Desc: not available URL: From nz4o at tampabay.rr.com Fri Jan 8 05:12:33 2010 From: nz4o at tampabay.rr.com (Thomas F. Giella NZ4O) Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 08:12:33 -0500 Subject: New Solar Cycle 24 Sunspot Group Message-ID: <1191A2E8FB93421CA90135ECF34D75F6@YOUR5BFDF7BC50> Posted Friday January 8, 2010 at 1300 UTC at http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o4.htm We now officially have solar cycle 24 sunspot group #11040 located near N28E59, with a beta magnetic signature capable of producing very small B class solar flares and an isolated small C class solar flare. The solar flux index values are 79.2 78.1 76.3 and the sunspot number 15. Posted Wednesday January 6, 2010 at 1400 UTC Solar cycle 24 sunspot group #11039 has set around the western limb of the Sun. Old solar cycle 24 sunspot group #11038 has risen around the eastern limb of the Sun. At the moment it appears to contain a spot or two but is difficult to tell for sure at the moment. If so and it survives then NOAA/SWPC will re-number it #11040. The solar flux index values are 69.2 76.8 75.1 and the sunspot number 13. Updated 2300 UTC NOAA/SWPC says that sunspot group #11038 is a spotless plage but I see one lone spot and I suspect that it will produce new spots in days to come. SIDC has assigned it Catania #35. The solar flux index values are 77.8 77.3 76.1 and the sunspot number 00, ending an 11 day period with visible sunspots. 73, GUD DX, Happy New Year 2010, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, USA nz4o at arrl.net eList Owner/Moderator John 3:16 <>< COL LF/MF/HF/VHF/UHF Frequency Radiowave Propagation Email Reflector: http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/spaceweather NZ4O Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o1.htm NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data In Graphic & Image Format: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o2.htm NZ4O Daily LF/MF/HF/6M Frequency Radiowave Propagation Forecast & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o3.htm NZ4O Solar Cycle 24 Forecast Discussion & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o4.htm NZ4O 160 Meter Radio Propagation Theory Notes: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o5.htm NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Raw Forecast Data Links: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o6.htm Harmful Man Induced Climate Change (Global Warming) Refuted: http://www.globalwarminglie.org From ki4nbe at yahoo.com Fri Jan 8 05:19:57 2010 From: ki4nbe at yahoo.com (George Gafford Sr) Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 05:19:57 -0800 (PST) Subject: [LakelandARC] Archive In-Reply-To: <00ce01ca9061$c4a70cb0$4df52610$@net> Message-ID: <883809.33152.qm@web38602.mail.mud.yahoo.com> WOW! Got to love Radio History, Thanks for sharing that with us all Ernie. 73 de George/KI4NBE --- On Fri, 1/8/10, Ernie wrote: From: Ernie Subject: [LakelandARC] Archive To: LakelandARC at yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 8, 2010, 7:54 AM ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/x-ygp-stripped Size: 135 bytes Desc: not available URL: From nz4o at tampabay.rr.com Fri Jan 8 05:52:52 2010 From: nz4o at tampabay.rr.com (Thomas F. Giella NZ4O) Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 08:52:52 -0500 Subject: NZ4O propagation Forecast #2010-02 Message-ID: <0E47B2591F70494C994F5447FBFAE9AC@YOUR5BFDF7BC50> The NZ4O Daily LF/MF/HF/6M Frequency Radiowave Propagation Forecast #2010-02 has been published on Friday 01/08/2009 at 1400 UTC, valid 0000 UTC Saturday 01/09/2010 through 2359 UTC Friday 01/15/2009 at http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o3.htm . 73 & GUD DX, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, USA nz4o at arrl.net LF/MF/HF/VHF/UHF Frequency Radiowave Propagation Email Reflector: http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/spaceweather NZ4O Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o1.htm NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data In Graphic & Image Format: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o2.htm NZ4O Daily LF/MF/HF/6M Frequency Radiowave Propagation Forecast & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o3.htm NZ4O Solar Cycle 24 Forecast Discussion & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o4.htm NZ4O 160 Meter Radio Propagation Theory Notes: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o5.htm NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Raw Forecast Data Links: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o6.htm From kg4yni at arrl.net Fri Jan 8 06:03:19 2010 From: kg4yni at arrl.net (Ernie) Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 09:03:19 -0500 Subject: Encouragement Message-ID: <00fa01ca906b$5597c2b0$00c74810$@net> + Spotlight on Amateur Radio: 2009 Sees Surge of New Amateur Radio Licensees http://www3.arrl.org/nl/al/image/ARRL_VEC_2009.JPG In 2009, the FCC issued more than 30,000 new Amateur Radio licences -- an almost 3 percent increase in the number of new licenses issued in 2008. At the end of 2009, there were 17,084 Novices, 334,245 Technicians, 150,970 Generals and 119,403 Amateur Extra class licensees. This past year was a banner year for new Amateur Radio licensees. According to ARRL VEC Manager Maria Somma, AB1FM, the FCC issued more than 30,000 new ham radio licenses. "In 2009, the demand for Amateur Radio exam sessions remained elevated and is still running at a higher rate than before the FCC's restructuring of the license requirements in 2007," Somma said. "This high level of exam session activity has produced an elevated influx of new applications, far outpacing recent years." A total of 30,144 new licenses were granted in 2009 -- an increase of almost 7.5 percent from 2008. In 2005, 16,368 new hams joined Amateur Radio's ranks; just five years later, that number had increased by almost 14,000 -- a whopping 84 percent! Read more here . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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At the end of 2009, there were 17,084 Novices, 334,245 Technicians, 150,970 Generals and 119,403 Amateur Extra class licensees. This past year was a banner year for new Amateur Radio licensees. According to ARRL VEC Manager Maria Somma, AB1FM, the FCC issued more than 30,000 new ham radio licenses. "In 2009, the demand for Amateur Radio exam sessions remained elevated and is still running at a higher rate than before the FCC's restructuring of the license requirements in 2007," Somma said. "This high level of exam session activity has produced an elevated influx of new applications, far outpacing recent years." A total of 30,144 new licenses were granted in 2009 -- an increase of almost 7.5 percent from 2008. In 2005, 16,368 new hams joined Amateur Radio's ranks; just five years later, that number had increased by almost 14,000 -- a whopping 84 percent! Read more here. ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks & 73, Ernie KG4YNI From: StevenS [mailto:spschultz at aol.com] Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 10:18 AM To: LakelandARC at yahoogroups.com Subject: [LakelandARC] Ham Radio Blog Hello everyone, I just wanted to let you know about my new ham radio blog, Hamming It Up, at http://n7huq.blogspot.com/. Thanks! 73, Steve, N7HUQ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.432 / Virus Database: 270.14.127/2603 - Release Date: 01/08/10 07:35:00 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/x-ygp-stripped Size: 126 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/x-ygp-stripped Size: 126 bytes Desc: not available URL: From billkodak at verizon.net Fri Jan 8 08:59:17 2010 From: billkodak at verizon.net (Bill) Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:59:17 -0500 Subject: [LakelandARC] Ham Radio Blog In-Reply-To: <012301ca9078$115eef30$341ccd90$@net> References: <012301ca9078$115eef30$341ccd90$@net> Message-ID: <79416B31EC61488591ED064184912128@BillDell> Check out Steve's pin on the map. I added his blog to the info box. I wonder how many other hams would want to make their own blog? Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: Ernie To: LakelandARC at yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 10:34 AM Subject: RE: [LakelandARC] Ham Radio Blog Hi Steven, This is more than cool. Never had an idea that you were so talented. I always thought all that you did was fly around playing with high tech toys. I hope that we can get a link from the club website to yours. Thanks & 73, Ernie KG4YNI From: StevenS [mailto:spschultz at aol.com] Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 10:18 AM To: LakelandARC at yahoogroups.com Subject: [LakelandARC] Ham Radio Blog Hello everyone, I just wanted to let you know about my new ham radio blog, Hamming It Up, at http://n7huq.blogspot.com/. Thanks! 73, Steve, N7HUQ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.432 / Virus Database: 270.14.127/2603 - Release Date: 01/08/10 07:35:00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.432 / Virus Database: 270.14.130/2607 - Release Date: 01/08/10 07:35:00 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nz4o at tampabay.rr.com Fri Jan 8 14:56:55 2010 From: nz4o at tampabay.rr.com (Thomas F. Giella NZ4O) Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 17:56:55 -0500 Subject: NWS Melbourne Snow Forecast Message-ID: <08558D3F5524455B820BD0D247AB4B88@YOUR5BFDF7BC50> NWS Melbourne is still forecasting a rain/sleet-ice pellet/snow mix probability later tonight and Saturday. NWS Tampa Bay is no longer mentioning any frozen precipitation. It did snow in the western panhandle of north Florida this morning. Snow was reported at Destin, Mary Esther, Panama City, and Valparaiso, all official NWS observing stations. 768 FXUS62 KMLB 082010 AFDMLB AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 310 PM EST FRI JAN 8 2010 DISCUSSION ..BLUSTERY WITH COLD WIND CHILLS TONIGHT AND SATURDAY NIGHT ...FREEZING TEMPERATURES LIKELY SATURDAY NIGHT/SUNDAY MORNING AND AGAIN SUNDAY NIGHT/MONDAY MORNING... TONIGHT...FRONT MOVING THROUGH THE SPACE COAST ATTM WITH OVERCAST COLD CONDITIONS ACROSS MOST OF AREA ESP BEHIND THE FRONT AS HIGHS WERE REACHED EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. TONIGHTS FORECAST CHALLENGES REMAIN ON AMOUNT OF COOL DOWN AS WELL AS THE PRECIPITATION POTENTIAL. FORECAST SOUNDINGS FROM NAM/GFS @ 12Z SAT BOTH INDICATE TEMPERATURE CURVES REMAINING AT OR BELOW 3C BELOW A NEAR SATURATED LAYER ALOFT DOWN TO THE GROUND SURFACE. THE "UNDERRUNNING" PROCESS THROUGH FORCED PARCEL LIFTING IN STRONG COLD AIR ADVECTION ARGUES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A POST FRONTAL MIXED PHASE PRECIPITATION DEVELOPMENT WITH A LIGHT RAIN...SLEET COMBINATION...POSSIBLY CHANGING TO A RAIN/SNOW/SLEET COMBINATION SATURDAY MORNING ACROSS ORANGE COUNTY AND NORTH BREVARD NORTHWARD. EVAPORATIVE COOLING IN THE DRY NEAR SURFACE LAYER MAY ASSIST IN CHANGEOVER TO SLEET/OR FLURRIES EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. WITH CONSIDERABLE CLOUD COVER HAVE SIDED ON TEMPERATURES REMAINING ABOVE FREEZING ACROSS THE AREA...WHICH IS ABOVE GUIDANCE. WILL KEEP THE CURRENT FREEZE WATCH IN PLACE FOR FURTHER EVALUATION WITH EVENING GUID PKG HOWEVER. VERY COLD WIND CHILLS WILL DEVELOP OVERNIGHT PROMOTING THE EARLIER WIND CHILL ADVISORY WITH 20S COMMON BY DAYBREAK SATURDAY. SATURDAY...A RARE DAY FOR THE SUNSHINE STATE WITH A POSSIBLE EARLY MIXTURE OF ISOLATED LIGHT RAIN/SLEET SNOW EARLY OVER THE ORANGE/NORTH BREVARD COUNTY AREA AND LIGHT RAIN SPRINKLES IN THE MORNING TO EARLY AFTERNOON ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA. PRECIPITATION WL COME TO AN END OVER MOST AREAS BY EARLY AFTERNOON WITH GRADUAL CLEARING AS ARCTIC AIR CONTINUES TO SPILL SOUTH INTO THE STATE. TEMPERATURES WILL STRUGGLE TO MAKE IT INTO THE 40S OVER NORTHERN SECTIONS WITH TEMPS HOVERING IN THE LOW TO MID 40S OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA. WIND CHILL TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN A CONCERN ALL DAY AND THE CURRENT ADVISORY REMAINS VALID UNTIL NOON. SAT NIGHT-TUE NGT...STRONG H50 SHORTWAVES TROUGH WILL ROTATE SEWD THRU THE ERN CONUS LONGWAVE TROUGH SUN MORNING...AND THEN AGAIN EARLY TUE. WIDESPREAD FREEZING TEMPS EXPECTED BOTH SUN/MON MORNINGS WITH MOST INTERIOR AWAY FROM THE COAST DROPPING INTO THE UPPER 20S (WITH A FEW L-M 20S IN NORMALLY COLDER SHELTERED SPOTS) WITH BRISK NW WINDS AROUND 10 MPH CONTINUING. SUBSEQUENT SHIFTS WILL NEED WIND CHILL ADVISORY OR WARNINGS POSTED STARTING AROUND SUNSET SAT...AND FREEZE WARNINGS ARE PRETTY MUCH IMMINENT. COULD SEE HARD FREEZE NORTH OF I-4 AGAIN. MAX TEMPS IN THE U40S FAR NORTH AND L-M50S FAR SOUTH. FREEZING TEMPS CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH ECFL OVERNIGHT INTO MONDAY MORNING AS WELL...WITH WDSPRD U20S-L30S EXPECTED. DAYTIME HIGHS MON REACHING THE MID 50S NORTH-L60S SOUTH...BUT NEXT SURGE WILL LKLY BRING YET ANOTHER THREAT OF FREEZING TEMPS TUE NGT. MID-LATE WEEK(PREV.)..MED RANGE GUIDANCE STILL HAS BIG DISCREPANCIES FROM MID TO LATE WEEK. ECMWF DEEPER/SLOWER WRT CUTOFF LOW IN DEEP SW VERSUS GFS...BUT MUCH OF THE ASSOCIATED LOCAL IMPACT WX WILL REMAIN BEYOND THIS FORECAST CYCLE. SOME HEIGHT RISES AND VEERING LIGHT FLOW WILL ALLOW FOR THE AIR MASS TO MODERATE A BIT WITH SOME MID/UPPER 60S BY WED AND MAYBE RECOVERING INTO THE LOWER 70S SOUTH BY THU. ANY MENTIONABLE RAIN CHANCES NOT UNTIL THE APPROACH OF NEXT WEEKEND. Happy New year 2010, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, US nz4o at arrl.net John 3:16 <>< CWOP #AR692/NZ4O CoCoRaHs #FL-PK-18 NWS Skywarn #POL-10A Lakeland FL Weather Observations: http://www.wcflunatall.com/index1.html Florida & U.S. Raw Weather Forecasting Resource Links: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o13.htm Lakeland, FL Daily Climatological Weather Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o22.htm Harmful Man Induced Climate Change (Global Warming) Refuted: http://www.globalwarminglie.org NZ4O Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o1.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Giella NZ4O Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 5:56 PM Subject: NWS Melbourne Snow Forecast NWS Melbourne is still forecasting a rain/sleet-ice pellet/snow mix probability later tonight and Saturday. NWS Tampa Bay is no longer mentioning any frozen precipitation. It did snow in the western panhandle of north Florida this morning. Snow was reported at Destin, Mary Esther, Panama City, and Valparaiso, all official NWS observing stations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 1126 of my spam emails to date. The Professional version does not have this message. From nz4o at tampabay.rr.com Sat Jan 9 07:47:28 2010 From: nz4o at tampabay.rr.com (Thomas F. Giella NZ4O) Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 10:47:28 -0500 Subject: Snow In Lakeland, FL Message-ID: These folks live just down the street from me. This was around 10:00 pm yesterday evening. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4PLo9sHcaY . It also sleeted and snowed again this morning in Lakeland. It's good to have a video verification of the snow event that I first forecasted on January 1st :<)) Shameful gloat because I suffered through some pretty stiff criticism over my advanced snow forecast. Happy New year 2010, Thomas F. 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URL: From Mike.Parrish at verizon.net Sat Jan 9 08:06:41 2010 From: Mike.Parrish at verizon.net (Mike Parrish) Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:06:41 -0500 Subject: [LakelandARC] Snow In Lakeland, FL In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <018001ca9145$bc1f76b0$345e6410$@Parrish@Verizon.net> I am just north of you (Scott Lake Road @ Lake Miriam) and it was too cold out last night to go look! 30-degrees on my porch right now. Thanks for sharing the video - good call. Stay warm folks! Thank You, Mike Mike Parrish, AG4SC 863 644-9226 FAX 866 299-9169 Mike.Parrish at Verizon.net Skype: Mike-Parrish or 863 614-1014 From: LakelandARC at yahoogroups.com [mailto:LakelandARC at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Thomas F. Giella NZ4O Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 10:47 AM To: a K4EEZ eGroup; a LARC Yahoo eGroup Subject: [LakelandARC] Snow In Lakeland, FL These folks live just down the street from me. This was around 10:00 pm yesterday evening. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4PLo9sHcaY . It also sleeted and snowed again this morning in Lakeland. It's good to have a video verification of the snow event that I first forecasted on January 1st :<)) Shameful gloat because I suffered through some pretty stiff criticism over my advanced snow forecast. Happy New year 2010, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, US nz4o at arrl.net John 3:16 <>< CWOP #AR692/NZ4O CoCoRaHs #FL-PK-18 NWS Skywarn #POL-10A Lakeland FL Weather Observations: http://www.wcflunatall.com/index1.html Florida & U.S. Raw Weather Forecasting Resource Links: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o13.htm Lakeland, FL Daily Climatological Weather Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o22.htm Harmful Man Induced Climate Change (Global Warming) Refuted: http://www.globalwarminglie.org NZ4O Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o1.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nz4o at tampabay.rr.com Sun Jan 10 04:53:23 2010 From: nz4o at tampabay.rr.com (Thomas F. Giella NZ4O) Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:53:23 -0500 Subject: Sunspot Group #11040 Goings On Message-ID: <82A54BFD69DE42D0A7779CB62FDFC9AD@YOUR5BFDF7BC50> Good morning from icy Florida where we had snow yesterday and 24 degrees this morning. Posted Sunday January 10, 2010 at 1300 UTC at http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o4.htm . Solar cycle 24 sunspot group #11040 located near N29E38, with a beta-gamma magnetic signature continues to increase in size and magnetic complexity. It is capable of producing very small B class and small C class solar flares and has done just that producing a C1.0 solar flare at 1503 UTC yesterday. The solar flux index values are 83.2 81.7 80.5 and the sunspot number 20. 73, GUD DX, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, USA nz4o at arrl.net COL LF/MF/HF/VHF/UHF Frequency Radiowave Propagation Email Reflector: http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/spaceweather NZ4O Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o1.htm NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data In Graphic & Image Format: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o2.htm NZ4O Daily LF/MF/HF/6M Frequency Radiowave Propagation Forecast & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o3.htm NZ4O Solar Cycle 24 Forecast Discussion & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o4.htm NZ4O 160 Meter Radio Propagation Theory Notes: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o5.htm NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Raw Forecast Data Links: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o6.htm Harmful Man Induced Climate Change (Global Warming) Refuted: http://www.globalwarminglie.org From wb4lca at yahoo.com Sun Jan 10 21:20:52 2010 From: wb4lca at yahoo.com (wb4lca) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:20:52 -0000 Subject: Snow In Lakeland, FL In-Reply-To: Message-ID: NZ4O,congratulations on your correct forecast. I heard the weather service forcast Friday reporting snow fluries-- they were probably deluged with same nay sayers-lol. FYI-Saturday afternoon from 2:00pm-2:10pm we had 1/16" dia. ice bouncing off the hood of my parked car at Schalamar Stables between Lakeland and Auburndale. My car thermometer read 35* and is usually a few degrees warm. We also had a friend report the same thing near G.J. high school at about the same time. --- In LakelandARC at yahoogroups.com, "Thomas F. Giella NZ4O" wrote: > > These folks live just down the street from me. This was around 10:00 pm yesterday evening. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4PLo9sHcaY . > > It also sleeted and snowed again this morning in Lakeland. > It's good to have a video verification of the snow event that I first forecasted on January 1st :<)) Shameful gloat because I suffered through some pretty stiff criticism over my advanced snow forecast. > > Happy New year 2010, > Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O > Lakeland, FL, US > nz4o at ... > John 3:16 <>< > From nz4o at tampabay.rr.com Mon Jan 11 12:29:55 2010 From: nz4o at tampabay.rr.com (Thomas F. Giella NZ4O) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:29:55 -0500 Subject: More Record Cold In Florida Message-ID: <3141ABC1499940418717C08E13492DD3@YOUR5BFDF7BC50> Monday morning January 11, 2010 dawned very cold for the state of Florida once again with quite a few new minimum temperature records set. Minimum temperatures this morning were 5-10 degrees colder than yesterday morning. For most locations this is the coldest weather since 2000 and in some cases 1996. For those that might be interested most of the data was culled from http://mesowest.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droman/raws_ca_monitor.cgi?rawsflag=290&state=FL&type=&orderby=n&day1=11&month1=7&year1=2009&hour1=14&refrsh=0&timeobs=12 The cold spot in the state was 12 degrees at Crestview AP in the panhandle west region of the north. Other significant minimum temperatures were as follows- CWOP KI4ZBO Lake City- 13 CWOP 3846 Mossy Head- 13 FAWN Jay- 14 Tallahassee AP- 14 CWOP W7KHH Bonifay- 14 Perry AP- 14 Cross City AP- 15 CWOP 5036 Middleburg- 15 CWOP 1450 Trenton- 15 FAWN Quincy- 15 RAWS Sandborn- 15 RAWS Bloxham- 16 FAWN Live Oak- 16 Jacksonville Cecil AP-16 FAWN Alachua- 16 FAWN Macclenny- 17 FAWN Bronson- 17 Gainesville AP- 17 RAWS Sumatra- 17 COOP Bell- 17 COOP Jasper- 17 Niceville AP- 17 There were quite a few other stations between 18-19 degrees. The cold spot on the central peninsula region was 14 degrees at CWOP 1327 Holder and Nobleton East (one of my weather stations). Other significant minimum temperatures were as follows- COOP Mt. Plymouth- 15 COOP Archbold- 15 CWOP 6469 Ocala- 16 Brooksville AP-16 COOP Lake Woodruff Dam- 16 CWOP 6582 Lakeland- 16 RAWS Lake George- 17 FAWN Citra- 17 Ocala AP- 18 CWOP Safety Harbor- 18 FAWN Brooksville- 18 CWOP 0149 Chuluota- 18 COOP Inverness- 18 Tampa Executive AP- 19 CWOP 3502 Valrico- 19 CWOP WX4DAN Valrico- 19 RAWS Central- 19 FAWN Okahumpka- 20 RAWS Archbold- 20 CWOP 4013 Plant City 21 CWOP NZ4O Lakeland Highlands- 22 CWOP KF4ORW Dade City- 22 NWS The Villages- 22 FAWN Dover- 22 CWOP 7827 Venus- 23 Lakeland AP- 23 FAWN Balm- 25 NWS Tampa Bay Ruskin- 26 Orlando Sanford AP- 26 COOP St. Leo- 26 (on a 250 foot hill) Tampa Int AP- 25 (urban location) Plant City AP- 27 (urban location) Sarasota- Bradenton AP- 28 (urban location) Orlando Int AP- 29 (urban location) NWS Melbourne- 29 (urban Location) St. Petersburg AP- 32 (urban location) There quite a few other stations between 27-29 degrees. The cold spot on the central peninsula region was 24 degrees at COOP Muse. Other significant minimum temperatures were as follows- FAWN Palmdale- 25 FAWN Clewiston- 25 COOP Clewiston- 25 West Kendall AP- 26 (urban location) RAWS Panther West- 26 FAWN Immokalee- 27 COOP Big Cypress- 27 Punta Gorda AP- 28 CWOP 1790 Lehigh Acres- 28 COOP Brighton- 28 COOP Ortona- 29 RAWS Cache- 30 COOP Ochopee- 30 Ft. Myers Southwest AP- 30 RAWS Tenraw- 30 Ft. Myers Page Field AP- 31 Homestead AFB- 31 COOP Homestead- 31 FAWN Homestead- 31 Naples AP- 32 RAWS Chekika- 32 West Palm Beach AP- 33 (urban location) Miami Opa Locka AP- 33 (urban location) Ft. Lauderdale AP- 36 (urban location) Miami AP- 36 (urban location) CWOP 1719 Key Largo- 36 Marathon AP- 39 Key West AP-42 The all time record low is 41 degrees. Legend- AP- Airport COOP- NOAA/NWS Cooperative Observer Program CWOP- Citizens Weather Program FAWN- Florida Automated Weather Network NWS- National Weather Service RAWS- Remote Automated Weather Stations Take Care, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, US nz4o at arrl.net John 3:16 <>< CWOP #AR692/NZ4O CoCoRaHs #FL-PK-18 NWS Skywarn #POL-10A Lakeland FL Weather Observations: http://www.wcflunatall.com/index1.html Florida & U.S. Raw Weather Forecasting Resource Links: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o13.htm Lakeland, FL Daily Climatological Weather Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o22.htm Harmful Man Induced Climate Change Refuted: http://www.globalwarminglie.org From ki4nbe at yahoo.com Tue Jan 12 21:44:29 2010 From: ki4nbe at yahoo.com (George) Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:44:29 -0000 Subject: Correction Message-ID: Bill/KI4ZMV, Bring this to your Attention: On the Blog: The url for the TARC Fest is incorrect. Here is the right url http://www.hamclub.org note: there is no s 73 George/KI4NBE From billkodak at verizon.net Wed Jan 13 02:44:53 2010 From: billkodak at verizon.net (Bill) Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:44:53 -0500 Subject: [LakelandARC] Correction In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <37F56C8FAFE04EB0B89F7FED0279C006@BillDell> Thank you George. I got rid of the s. Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: George To: LakelandARC at yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 12:44 AM Subject: [LakelandARC] Correction Bill/KI4ZMV, Bring this to your Attention: On the Blog: The url for the TARC Fest is incorrect. Here is the right url http://www.hamclub.org note: there is no s 73 George/KI4NBE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. 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The net is a lot of fun and the club as a whole would appreciate it. You can contact me at (863) 802-8457 or gagnon at tampabay.rr.com 73, all Dan Gagnon WZ1P Net Manager, LARC From kd4efm1 at verizon.net Sat Jan 16 15:20:32 2010 From: kd4efm1 at verizon.net (Evans F. Mitchell KD4EFM) Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:20:32 -0500 Subject: FW: [VOIP-WXNET] Haiti Earthquake Situation Report #3 Message-ID: SITREP 3 Evans F. Mitchell KD4EFM / WQFK-894 Fla. D-Star Tech Support Group http://www.florida-dstar.info Polk ARES A.E.C. http://www.polkemcomm.org BB8330 PIN: 30965B58 _____ From: VOIP-WXNET at yahoogroups.com [mailto:VOIP-WXNET at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of rmacedo at rcn.com Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 5:44 PM To: VoIP-WX at yahoogroups.com; VoIP-WXNet at yahoogroups.com Subject: [VOIP-WXNET] Haiti Earthquake Situation Report #3 Hello to all.. The following is a situation report on the Amateur Radio response to the Haiti Earthquake. Please note that the situation report was not updated on Friday Evening as there was little new information. Today, new information was received warranting a new situation report update. ARES/RACES/MARS groups across the country and globally have received requests for Health and Welfare traffic. All stations that have HF capability should monitor HF frequencies listed in the sitrep below or scan 20/40/80 Meter bands for any Haitian stations and if any are heard and they have a capability to assist with Emergency/Priority traffic and health and welfare traffic, relay that information to SATERN (Salvation Army Team Emergency Response Network) and IRESC (International Radio Emergency Support Coalition). There has been more steady contact with 2 Amateur Radio Operators via the HF Nets over the past 2 days however it is noted that HH2JR, Jean Richard is currently running with an Icom IC-706 HF Radio with a faulty display and is running out of fuel for his neighbor's generator which he has been using to maintain power for his radio per family members who were in contact with several Amateurs who made first contact with HH2JR on January 13th. An Amateur Radio strike team from the Dominican Republic has arrived in Haiti on Friday January 15th. There has been word that HI8RCD/HH has attempted to contact the SATERN Net on 14.265 but has been unsucessful. This is per traffic monitored on the 7265 40 meter SATERN Net at approximately 430 PM ET/2130 UTC. The following information was relayed by Public Relations Manager at ARRL HQ, Allen Pitts-W1AGP concerning operations and the public information aspect of the Amateur Radio response. Please also note the comments on deployment to the affected area: If you are aware of people considering volunteering for a deployment, please make sure they contact your SEC and the SEC is aware of that, the capabilities and experience. I do not know just what will happen - no one does. But anything we do with ARES deployments supporting our served agencies will go through the SECs. As you may know (or surely guessed) , there is a LOT going on at ARRL HQ, IARU and in other Amateur Radio groups as we address the Haitian disaster. This is truly an international response, and many countries are involved, not just the USA. In these first days, there were very few Amateur Radio operators operating in Haiti. In the coming week there will be more as international assessment teams are expected to arrive from several countries and will have embedded hams with them. There will be even more in the weeks after that as recovery groups arrive. This will not be a short campaign and it is still unclear what may be the situation outside of metropolitan areas in the hill and mountain country. While there is little coming out of Haiti so far, the country is ringed by many excellent AR stations of many nationalities who will hear anything that might come up on the air. I know that you are getting requests for information regarding relatives and friends in Haiti. These can be heartbreaking.... I am getting them too and it can be really rough emotionally. The best I have at this point is the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Salvation Army's websites. H&W going OUT of Haiti can be channeled through several programs. (Yes, I know from Katrina a lot of hams like to make THOSE calls themselves - that's also emotional but on the good side - but do it right) I note the posts on the reflector to be careful not to "oversell" things - they are correct. This one is different from Katrina. It will take more time, different problems (hard to believe things could be worse, but they are), and is international in scope. I expect Amateur Radio related issues, activities and events to grow in the coming weeks and we're working hard to get out the best, VERIFIED information on the main ARRL website. We may not be the fastest ones with a headline, but we're going to be sure of things to prevent rumor and speculation. I have spoken to most of the other major Amateur Radio related publications people and we're all in this together. Thanks for all you are doing. The remainder below is unchanged from the Thursday Evening Update: An updated ARRL Web Story is listed below: http://www.arrl. org/news/stories/2010/01/14/11290/?nc=1 A recording of phone patches was provided by K1VR-Brian Crow of Boynton Beach Florida between HH2JR-Jean Robert Gaillard and W3UZ is widely available over the Internet and is 26 minutes long. You can hear his nervousness and tenseness as the phone patches are made and the audio is at the link below: http://d.yimg. com/kq/groups/12397727/1885578730/name/Haiti%2Emp3 The edit clips from Amateur Radio Newsline and the text transcript can be heard at the following link: http://www.arnewsli ne.org Some interesting information has been made available via the stormcarib.com storm blog concerning relief operations. This can be seen via the following link: http://stormcarib. com/reports/current/haiti.shtml The following is from Julio Ripoll-WD4R, Assistant WX4NHC Coordinator, who received data on a jump team heading into Haiti for Amateur Radio support per the data below: Haiti Update http://aren. ie/news/2010/01/14/haiti-update-2/ The following update was received from Cesar Pio Santos, HR2P. By Greg Mossop, IARU Region 1 Emergency Communications Co-Ordinator RCD and URDA en route to Haiti Victor Baez, HI8VB, Secretary of the Radio Club Dominicano (RCD) reports that the RCD with UDRA, Uni?n Dominicana de Radio Aficionados, are preparing to go to Port au Prince early morning of Friday January 15 to install an emergency radio Communications station, HI8RCD/HH, and a mobile station. Victor has a blog which hopefully he will update with more news from Haiti: www.hi8vb.tk >From ARRL HQ, Media and Public Relations Manager Allen Pitts-W1AGP had the following information today: Many hams are reporting that they have been contacted by family members hoping to get H&W messages into Haiti. This is not possible at this time. The International Committee of the Red Cross has established protocols. Point folks there ? and yes, some of these calls have been heartbreakers. But let?s do what we can to help. The document on the ICRC info is listed below: http://ares. ema.arrl.org/local/lost_family.doc Meanwhile, I am getting the first of the ?I want to go to Haiti? calls and emails here. At this time we are in contact with a LOT of agencies and much is going on behind the scenes. For now there are NO calls for hams from responding agencies. This may change quickly ? nothing is assured at all in the developing story. If there are to be any assignments, the vetting will go through the section SECs. So point anyone that is anxious to go to talk to their section?s SEC. All data below is the same from the previous situation report and remains valid with one correction to the SATERN frequencies where there was a typo. Remainder below is unchanged: On Tuesday there was a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti, which has since been followed by serious aftershocks. Communications in and out of Haiti have been disrupted. No word has been received as of yet from any of the national HH Amateur Radio operators. The DailyDX notes that HH2/HB9AMO, Pierre, is OK and was located about 140 km north of Port-au-Prince in Cap Haitien at the time. The IARU Region II Area C Emergency Coordinator, Arnie Coro, CO2KK, is coordinating the multi-national response by hams. There are organized nets on 7045 and 3720 kHz and amateurs are asked to monitor but also keep the frequencies clear of non-essential traffic. Amateur Radio operators should also be aware that emergency traffic pertaining to the Haitian earthquake is expected on the SATERN frequencies of 14265, 7265 and 3977 according to SATERN?s leader, Major Pat McPherson. The Salvation Army has a website up for H&W traffic and other news at www.satern.org. Amateur Radio operators are circled around Haiti in Cuba, Florida, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and other locations listening for any calls, but so far only one station has checked in. Rich Moseson of CQ Magazine reported to us that Father John Henault, HH6JH, made contact late Wednesday morning with the Intercontinental Assistance and Traffic Net (IATN) on 14.300 MHz, the IARU Global Centre of Activity frequency for emergency communications. He said that he was safe, but had no power and no phone service. He was operating on battery power and hoping to get a generator running later in the day. Please keep the nets clear for emergency and priority traffic on frequencies : 14300 14265 7045 7265 3977 3720 Additional frequencies may be activated on different bands at different times of day, so be sure to listen carefully before transmitting to make sure you are not interfering with emergency traffic. The situation is still chaotic and more information will be posted as soon as possible. Information is being validated and shared between many amateur groups and news sources as it unfolds. Global ALE High Frequency Network (HFN) is now on ALERT for Haiti earthquake Emergency / Disaster Relief Communications (EMCOMM) ====HFLINK SPECIAL BULLETIN==== 13 JAN 2010 Alert: Haiti Earthquake EMCOMM HFN Pilot Stations are active and ready 24/7 for ALE calling, relay, and internet messages. All operators are encouraged to participate in the ALE Comm Centre live operator chat room http://hflink. net and activate ALE radios on the ALE channels: HFN net (text/internet/ sounding/ calling) 3596.0 USB 7102.0 USB 10145.5 USB 14109.0 USB 18106.0 USB 21096.0 USB 24926.0 USB 28146.0 USB HFL net (emcomm/voice/ calling) 3791.0 USB 7185.5 USB 14346.0 USB 18117.5 USB 21437.5 USB 24932.0 USB 28312.5 USB ============ ========= ====== END OF BULLETIN ============ ========= ====== Bonnie Crystal, KQ6XA International Emcomm Coordinator Global ALE High Frequency Network http://hflink. net The following is an update as provided by Eastern Massachusetts ARRL Section Traffic manager, Jim Ward-N1LKJ, concerning all the health and welfare traffic received to date from all across the country and internationally: On Wednesday's 2:30PM Eastern Area Traffic Net, Earl WX4J from Florida checked in and told all Hams to hold all Health & Welfare Traffic for now. There are just no outlets for it at this time. They will keep us advised. Traffic can be listed on the Satern web page. www.satern.org On the Satern Net on 14.265 they gave out the information, that the State Department is giving out the phone number 888-407-4747 for all people inquiring about loved ones. 73, Jim Ward N1LKJ STM The International Radio Emergency Support Coalition (IRESC) and the Salvation Army Team Emergency Response Network (SATERN) remain active supporting Haiti Earthquake Operations. Indirect contact has been established via email and second hand reporting and info as relayed by SATERN to IRESC and by IRESC operators. Direct contact to the affected area is being attempted by both groups. The *WX_TALK* Echolink conference node: 7203/IRLP 9219 reflector system has been connected directly to the *IRESC* echolink conference node: 278173 for listen only purposes. It will remain connected for as long as IRESC is active. Anyone with emergency/priority traffic or health and welfare traffic should connect directly to *IRESC* echolink conference node: 278173. Information on IRESC can be seen via the following link: http://www.iresc. org/ SATERN is active on HF and has performed liasion with IRESC. Per the SATERN web site, SATERN activities are active on 14.265 MHz Primary for daytime operations and 7265 and 3977.7 Khz for evening and night time operations. Information on SATERN can be seen via the following link: http://www.satern. org/ individuals that help with the VoIP Hurricane Net that either have direct contact with Haiti or have relays into Haiti are strongly encouraged to support SATERN and IRESC with their operations. This would benefit those with Emergency/Priority and Health and Welfare traffic into Haiti. Stations that have Health and Welfare traffic to Haiti can provide the info to these groups but it may be several days before the messages will be delivered and relayed back so those that can help with direct contact with Haiti or contact through relays could help speed up the Health and welfare traffic flow. IRESC has requested net control help and VoIP Hurricane Net controls could be of assistance. Those net controls are encouaged to contact Dennis-AE2EE. His email address was provided on a notice that went only to the VoIP Hurricane Net Net Control Email list. We wish the best for the victims of this serious earthquake that has affected Haiti. Another situation Report will be posted Friday evening or sooner if a significant development involving direct contact with Haiti occurs. 73,Rob-KD1CY. Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nz4o at tampabay.rr.com Tue Jan 19 13:12:34 2010 From: nz4o at tampabay.rr.com (Thomas F. Giella NZ4O) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:12:34 -0500 Subject: Two M Class Solar Flares and Radio Black Outs Message-ID: Updated 2100 UTC at http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o4.htm Yet another M class solar flare occurred at 2028 UTC, this time an M1.7. It also produced a sudden ionosphere disturbance (SID) that absorbed radio signals causing a radio black out that reached as high as 11000 kc on the sun light side of the Earth. Both M class solar flares are associated with recurrent sunspot group #11039 which is due to rise around the eastern limb of the Sun in the next day or two. Updated 2000 UTC at http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o4.htm Associated with the M2.3 class solar flare was a sudden ionosphere disturbance (SID) that absorbed radio signals causing a radio black out that reach as high as 12000 kc on the sun light side of the Earth. This was the first radio blackout of solar cycle 24. Posted Tuesday January 19, 2010 at 1600 UTC at http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o4.htm At 1324 UTC an M2.3 solar flare was detected. The source region is unknown at this time but it is likely that it was released by a sunspot group around the east limb of the Sun. This is the first M class solar flare for solar cycle 24. The solar flux index values are 82.2 81.5 81.3 and the sunspot number 14. On January 12th thanks to recurrent sunspot group #11040, the solar flux index (SFI) peaked at 95.4 and the sunspot number (SSN) 41, both record highs for solar cycle 24. 73 & GUD DX, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, USA nz4o at arrl.net LF/MF/HF/VHF/UHF Frequency Radiowave Propagation Email Reflector: http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/spaceweather NZ4O Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o1.htm NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data In Graphic & Image Format: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o2.htm NZ4O Daily LF/MF/HF/6M Frequency Radiowave Propagation Forecast & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o3.htm NZ4O Solar Cycle 24 Forecast Discussion & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o4.htm NZ4O 160 Meter Radio Propagation Theory Notes: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o5.htm NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Raw Forecast Data Links: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o6.htm From kd4efm1 at verizon.net Tue Jan 19 14:33:24 2010 From: kd4efm1 at verizon.net (Evans F. Mitchell KD4EFM) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:33:24 -0500 Subject: FW: [WCFARES] Haiti Situation Report - Important Information for All Potential Volunteers To Haiti Message-ID: <64123427B76448609AD84AAA1450D56D@kd4efmsvr> This is an email being forwarded to you from the Section EC. Evans F. Mitchell KD4EFM / WQFK-894 Fla. D-Star Tech Support Group http://www.florida-dstar.info Polk ARES A.E.C. http://www.polkemcomm.org BB8330 PIN: 30965B58 -----Original Message----- Subject: [WCFARES] Haiti Situation Report - Important Information for All Potential Volunteers To Haiti On Thursday Jan 14 The Section Leadership received a request for us to begin collecting a list of Amateur Radio Operators who have Passports to possibly deploy to Haiti. I started that process immediately and have gathered up 29 Volunteers from the West Central Florida Section. I also have had volunteers from other parts of the country as far away as Alaska calling or writing for information. No amateur has been Nor will they be deployed by the State until The FLEOC deems it safe enough to do so and they receive an Official Declaration from either the Governor or the President or if they receive a specific request from an agency for amateurs to deploy with them. There are serious crime and health problems to deal with at the moment. Repeat NO ONE has yet been deployed NOR are there any immediate plans by the FLEOC to do so for the reasons I have mentioned. It would appear that the communications part of the emergency will probably be over in about a week or less In my efforts to help insure the Safety and Welfare of our volunteers should they be deployed, I have asked many questions. These questions are about items such as Immunizations required (it will be made available to those who are actually deployed) also questions about reciprocal licensing or waivers as well as those about equipment needs and limitations if any. I want to be sure that in addition to all other traffic coming out of Haiti made by our volunteers that we hear from them as at least daily as a minimum or more often as the situation dictates. We have a number of groups/stations who will be listening up for our guys including myself as well as from SATERN stations, Local Clubs such as the TARC club and by MARS/SHARES members who by direction are supporting SATERN communications. I am also making arrangements to get a VHF Repeater placed on board one of the Navy Hospital or supply ships to provide in country comms between amateurs in and around the Port-Au-Prince area. Those Hams who are tasked to deploy by the State will have their basic expenses re-imbursed. Things covered are gas, meals and lodging (if necessary until actual departure) BUT ONLY if the FLEOC has an official declaration as outlined above. If I receive valid requests from a church group or others such as the Salvation Army I will contact those who have volunteered and the personal expenses involved and workman's compensation coverage will have to dealt with by the individual and the non-government organization requesting them. Here is the Official Florida Amateur Radio Operators Deployment Policy: ================================================= Florida Disaster Amateur Radio Volunteer's Deployment Policy It is the Policy of the State EOC and supported by All Three Florida ARRL Section's (there are similar policies in place by other states) that: All mutual-aid deployments from the state-to-county, or from County-to-county or Out of Country from Florida will be coordinated through the State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC) in Tallahassee and all incoming volunteers unless given a direct assignment will be staged at the appropriate Staging area in each FDEM Area. No amateur radio operators should be physically responding to a disaster area without having a mission assignment and tracking number assigned by the Florida Division of Emergency Management and/or your Section's leadership. (Exceptions would be those Hams already working specifically as Served agency volunteers and are covered by that agencies Workman's Compensation) NO Self-Deployments by individuals or groups will be allowed and you will be turned back and sent home. We want everyone to be protected by Workman's Compensation and Florida's Good Samaritan's laws from the moment they leave their home until they complete their assignments and return home AND that by utilizing this method we can keep better track and control of where the Amateurs are actually assigned AND are NEEDED as requested by the county, or countries effected by the disaster. All Amateur Radio Operator Volunteers must be signed up on one of the three Florida Section's Databases. The one used here in West Central Florida is http://aresdb at ab2m.net/ and those volunteers who have completed the required minimum training courses or have had previous experience in the Katrina and Wilma hurricanes dispatched by the FLEOC will be given preference when selections for assignments are made. ======================================== Number 1 on the list to do, is to continually pass the word that self deployment by people trying to get to Haiti will meet strong resistance from all the various law enforcement agencies. The infrastructure is not in place to support these type of deployments and they would become part of problem, not the solution. People without passports or other non authorized people will be arrested, incarcerated and eventually deport to the USA (With a rap sheet). I know that all of are trying to help in any way we can, but lets keep this in perspective and let us not get overly excited. I will try to keep everyone informed as I can and your attendance to our WCF ARES Nets on Monday evenings at 7:30 PM on the NI4CE Repeater System will allow me to do so. Thanks. 73, Neil H. Lauritsen, Sr. W4NHL / NNN0TFH WCF ASM/SEC ACS Radio Officer/ARES Emergency Coordinator Cell 727-643-1670 ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links From nz4o at tampabay.rr.com Tue Jan 19 19:38:09 2010 From: nz4o at tampabay.rr.com (Thomas F. Giella NZ4O) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:38:09 -0500 Subject: New Solar Cycle 24 Sunspot Group Message-ID: Posted Wednesday January 20, 2010 at 0330 UTC at http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o4.htm Recurrent solar cycle 24 sunspot group #11039 has risen above the eastern limb of the sun near 27 degrees south. It has been re-numbered #11041 by NOAA/SWPC. It appears as though this sunspot group will be very active and entertaining in future days and possibly push the sunspot count to new record highs. 73 & GUD DX, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, USA nz4o at arrl.net LF/MF/HF/VHF/UHF Frequency Radiowave Propagation Email Reflector: http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/spaceweather NZ4O Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o1.htm NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data In Graphic & Image Format: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o2.htm NZ4O Daily LF/MF/HF/6M Frequency Radiowave Propagation Forecast & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o3.htm NZ4O Solar Cycle 24 Forecast Discussion & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o4.htm NZ4O 160 Meter Radio Propagation Theory Notes: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o5.htm NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Raw Forecast Data Links: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o6.htm From kt2t at arrl.net Tue Jan 19 20:39:45 2010 From: kt2t at arrl.net (KT2T - Mike Oliver) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:39:45 -0500 Subject: [PolkARES] FW: [WCFARES] Haiti Situation Report - Important Information for All Potential Volunteers To Haiti In-Reply-To: <64123427B76448609AD84AAA1450D56D@kd4efmsvr> References: <64123427B76448609AD84AAA1450D56D@kd4efmsvr> Message-ID: <8c64b8d21001192039m54faabbam472ce1228a07734f@mail.gmail.com> Hi Evans, I have a passport and can help if needed. 73, Mike, KT2T On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 17:33, Evans F. Mitchell KD4EFM wrote: > This is an email being forwarded to you from the Section EC. > > > > > Evans F. Mitchell > KD4EFM / WQFK-894 > > ?Fla. D-Star Tech Support Group > ?http://www.florida-dstar.info > > ?Polk ARES A.E.C. > ?http://www.polkemcomm.org > > BB8330 PIN: 30965B58 > > > -----Original Message----- > Subject: [WCFARES] Haiti Situation Report - > Important Information for All Potential Volunteers To Haiti > > On Thursday Jan 14 The Section Leadership received a request for us to begin > collecting a list of Amateur Radio Operators who have Passports to possibly > deploy to Haiti. > I started that process immediately and have gathered up 29 Volunteers from > the West Central > Florida Section. I also have had volunteers from other parts of the country > as far away as Alaska > calling or writing for information. > > No amateur has been Nor will they be deployed by the State until The FLEOC > deems it safe > enough to do so and they receive an Official Declaration from either the > Governor or the President > or if they receive a specific request from an agency for amateurs to deploy > with them. There are serious > crime and health problems to deal with at the moment. Repeat NO ONE has yet > been deployed NOR > are there any immediate plans by the FLEOC to do so for the reasons I have > mentioned. It would > appear that the communications part of the emergency will probably be over > in about a week or less > > In my efforts to help insure the Safety and Welfare of our volunteers should > > they be deployed, I have > asked many questions. These questions are about items such as Immunizations > required (it will be made > available to those who are actually deployed) also questions about > reciprocal licensing or waivers as > well as those about equipment needs and limitations if any. > > I want to be sure that in addition to all other traffic coming out of Haiti > made by our volunteers that we > hear from them as at least daily as a minimum or more often as the situation > > dictates. We have a number > of groups/stations who will be listening up for our guys including myself > as well as from SATERN stations, > Local Clubs such as the TARC club and by MARS/SHARES members who by > direction are supporting > SATERN communications. I am also making arrangements to get a VHF Repeater > placed on board one of > the Navy Hospital or supply ships to provide in country comms between > amateurs in and around the > Port-Au-Prince area. > > Those Hams who are tasked to deploy by the State will have their basic > expenses re-imbursed. Things > covered are gas, meals and lodging (if necessary until actual departure) BUT > > ONLY if the FLEOC has > an official declaration as outlined above. > > ?If I receive valid requests from a church group or others such as the > Salvation Army I will contact those > who have volunteered and the personal expenses involved and workman's > compensation coverage will have > to dealt with by the individual and the non-government organization > requesting them. > > Here is the Official Florida Amateur Radio Operators Deployment Policy: > > ================================================= > > Florida Disaster Amateur Radio Volunteer's Deployment Policy > > It is the Policy of the State EOC and supported by All Three Florida > ARRL Section's (there are similar policies in place by other states) > that: > > All mutual-aid deployments from the state-to-county, or from > County-to-county ?or Out of Country from Florida will be coordinated > through the State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC) in Tallahassee > and all incoming volunteers unless given a direct assignment will be > staged at the appropriate Staging area in each FDEM Area. > > No amateur radio operators should be physically responding to a disaster > area without having a mission assignment and tracking number assigned > by the Florida Division of Emergency Management and/or your Section's > leadership. (Exceptions would be those Hams already working specifically > as Served agency volunteers and are covered by that agencies Workman's > Compensation) > > NO Self-Deployments by individuals or groups will be allowed and you will > be turned back and sent home. > > We want everyone to be protected by Workman's Compensation and Florida's > Good Samaritan's laws from the moment they leave their home until they > complete their assignments and return home AND that by utilizing this method > we can keep better track and control of where the Amateurs are actually > assigned ?AND are NEEDED as requested by the county, or countries effected > by the disaster. > > All Amateur Radio Operator Volunteers must be signed up on one of the three > Florida Section's Databases. The one used here in West Central Florida is > http://aresdb at ab2m.net/ and those volunteers who have completed the > required minimum training courses or have had previous experience in the > Katrina > and Wilma hurricanes dispatched by the FLEOC will be given preference when > selections for assignments are made. > ======================================== > Number 1 on the list to do, is to continually pass the word that self > deployment by people trying to get to Haiti will meet strong resistance from > > all the various law enforcement agencies. The infrastructure is not in place > > to support these type of deployments and they would become part of problem, > not the solution. People without passports or other non authorized people > will be arrested, incarcerated and eventually deport to the USA (With a rap > sheet). > > I know that all of are trying to help in any way we can, but lets keep this > in perspective and let us not get overly excited. I will try to keep > everyone informed as I can > > and your attendance to our WCF ARES Nets on Monday evenings at 7:30 PM on > the NI4CE Repeater System will allow me to do so. Thanks. > > > 73, > > Neil H. Lauritsen, Sr. W4NHL / NNN0TFH > WCF ASM/SEC > ACS Radio Officer/ARES Emergency Coordinator > Cell ? ? 727-643-1670 > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > This e-mail contains proprietary information and is confidential. You are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- Mike Oliver, KT2T +1-863-738-2334 kt2t at arrl.net -or- mwoliver at gmail.com From nz4o at tampabay.rr.com Wed Jan 20 04:52:29 2010 From: nz4o at tampabay.rr.com (Thomas F. Giella NZ4O) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:52:29 -0500 Subject: Volunteers To Haiti References: <64123427B76448609AD84AAA1450D56D@kd4efmsvr> <8c64b8d21001192039m54faabbam472ce1228a07734f@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <5E87B6D5CB41419CBA975F6D91390BBC@YOUR5BFDF7BC50> I'm retired U.S. Coast Guard. I was in Haiti in 1977. I was in the middle of the Mariel boat lift in 1980. I was in Grenada in 1982. Civilians have no business traveling into a war zone. I had allot of interactions with Haitian boat people between 1976-1988. Hams are civilians and right now Haiti is a war zone. Hams want to help BUT this is a grave situation and a place only for the U.S. Military and it's cutting edge communications systems and weaponry for that matter. Ham radio EMCOMM can assist to a point in disasters within the U.S., such as with Hurricane Katrina but is useless in a war zone in a foreign country. The lack of basic common sense within the ham community that I'm reading on the www and hearing on HF is shocking. 73, GUD DX, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, USA nz4o at arrl.net John 3:16 <>< NZ4O Amateur & SWL Radio Autobiography: http://www.nz4o.org ----- Original Message ----- From: KT2T - Mike Oliver To: polkares at yahoogroups.com Cc: members at polkemcomm.org ; Polk County Fl. K4LKL , Lakeland ARC Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:39 PM Subject: [LakelandARC] Re: [PolkARES] FW: [WCFARES] Haiti Situation Report - Important Information for All Potential Volunteers To Haiti Hi Evans, I have a passport and can help if needed. 73, Mike, KT2T On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 17:33, Evans F. Mitchell KD4EFM wrote: > This is an email being forwarded to you from the Section EC. > > > > > Evans F. Mitchell > KD4EFM / WQFK-894 > > Fla. D-Star Tech Support Group > http://www.florida-dstar.info > > Polk ARES A.E.C. > http://www.polkemcomm.org > > BB8330 PIN: 30965B58 > > > -----Original Message----- > Subject: [WCFARES] Haiti Situation Report - > Important Information for All Potential Volunteers To Haiti > > On Thursday Jan 14 The Section Leadership received a request for us to begin > collecting a list of Amateur Radio Operators who have Passports to possibly > deploy to Haiti. > I started that process immediately and have gathered up 29 Volunteers from > the West Central > Florida Section. I also have had volunteers from other parts of the country > as far away as Alaska > calling or writing for information. > > No amateur has been Nor will they be deployed by the State until The FLEOC > deems it safe > enough to do so and they receive an Official Declaration from either the > Governor or the President > or if they receive a specific request from an agency for amateurs to deploy > with them. There are serious > crime and health problems to deal with at the moment. Repeat NO ONE has yet > been deployed NOR > are there any immediate plans by the FLEOC to do so for the reasons I have > mentioned. It would > appear that the communications part of the emergency will probably be over > in about a week or less > > In my efforts to help insure the Safety and Welfare of our volunteers should > > they be deployed, I have > asked many questions. These questions are about items such as Immunizations > required (it will be made > available to those who are actually deployed) also questions about > reciprocal licensing or waivers as > well as those about equipment needs and limitations if any. > > I want to be sure that in addition to all other traffic coming out of Haiti > made by our volunteers that we > hear from them as at least daily as a minimum or more often as the situation > > dictates. We have a number > of groups/stations who will be listening up for our guys including myself > as well as from SATERN stations, > Local Clubs such as the TARC club and by MARS/SHARES members who by > direction are supporting > SATERN communications. I am also making arrangements to get a VHF Repeater > placed on board one of > the Navy Hospital or supply ships to provide in country comms between > amateurs in and around the > Port-Au-Prince area. > > Those Hams who are tasked to deploy by the State will have their basic > expenses re-imbursed. Things > covered are gas, meals and lodging (if necessary until actual departure) BUT > > ONLY if the FLEOC has > an official declaration as outlined above. > > If I receive valid requests from a church group or others such as the > Salvation Army I will contact those > who have volunteered and the personal expenses involved and workman's > compensation coverage will have > to dealt with by the individual and the non-government organization > requesting them. > > Here is the Official Florida Amateur Radio Operators Deployment Policy: > > ================================================= > > Florida Disaster Amateur Radio Volunteer's Deployment Policy > > It is the Policy of the State EOC and supported by All Three Florida > ARRL Section's (there are similar policies in place by other states) > that: > > All mutual-aid deployments from the state-to-county, or from > County-to-county or Out of Country from Florida will be coordinated > through the State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC) in Tallahassee > and all incoming volunteers unless given a direct assignment will be > staged at the appropriate Staging area in each FDEM Area. > > No amateur radio operators should be physically responding to a disaster > area without having a mission assignment and tracking number assigned > by the Florida Division of Emergency Management and/or your Section's > leadership. (Exceptions would be those Hams already working specifically > as Served agency volunteers and are covered by that agencies Workman's > Compensation) > > NO Self-Deployments by individuals or groups will be allowed and you will > be turned back and sent home. > > We want everyone to be protected by Workman's Compensation and Florida's > Good Samaritan's laws from the moment they leave their home until they > complete their assignments and return home AND that by utilizing this method > we can keep better track and control of where the Amateurs are actually > assigned AND are NEEDED as requested by the county, or countries effected > by the disaster. > > All Amateur Radio Operator Volunteers must be signed up on one of the three > Florida Section's Databases. The one used here in West Central Florida is > http://aresdb at ab2m.net/ and those volunteers who have completed the > required minimum training courses or have had previous experience in the > Katrina > and Wilma hurricanes dispatched by the FLEOC will be given preference when > selections for assignments are made. > ======================================== > Number 1 on the list to do, is to continually pass the word that self > deployment by people trying to get to Haiti will meet strong resistance from > > all the various law enforcement agencies. The infrastructure is not in place > > to support these type of deployments and they would become part of problem, > not the solution. People without passports or other non authorized people > will be arrested, incarcerated and eventually deport to the USA (With a rap > sheet). > > I know that all of are trying to help in any way we can, but lets keep this > in perspective and let us not get overly excited. I will try to keep > everyone informed as I can > > and your attendance to our WCF ARES Nets on Monday evenings at 7:30 PM on > the NI4CE Repeater System will allow me to do so. Thanks. > > > 73, > > Neil H. Lauritsen, Sr. W4NHL / NNN0TFH > WCF ASM/SEC > ACS Radio Officer/ARES Emergency Coordinator > Cell 727-643-1670 > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > This e-mail contains proprietary information and is confidential. You are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- Mike Oliver, KT2T +1-863-738-2334 kt2t at arrl.net -or- mwoliver at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kd4efm1 at verizon.net Wed Jan 20 10:08:37 2010 From: kd4efm1 at verizon.net (Evans F. Mitchell KD4EFM) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:08:37 -0500 Subject: [LakelandARC] Re: Volunteers To Haiti In-Reply-To: <5E87B6D5CB41419CBA975F6D91390BBC@YOUR5BFDF7BC50> References: <64123427B76448609AD84AAA1450D56D@kd4efmsvr> <8c64b8d21001192039m54faabbam472ce1228a07734f@mail.gmail.com> <5E87B6D5CB41419CBA975F6D91390BBC@YOUR5BFDF7BC50> Message-ID: <7B85BCA2E2464690B5C70FA0B1A5B8D2@kd4efmsvr> that is why we stress NO BILLET, NO PASS, NO GO. Thanks for your time and service to the US Thomas. Evans F. Mitchell KD4EFM / WQFK-894 Fla. D-Star Tech Support Group http://www.florida-dstar.info Polk ARES A.E.C. http://www.polkemcomm.org BB8330 PIN: 30965B58 _____ From: LakelandARC at yahoogroups.com [mailto:LakelandARC at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Thomas F. Giella NZ4O Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 7:52 AM To: LakelandARC at yahoogroups.com Subject: [LakelandARC] Re: Volunteers To Haiti I'm retired U.S. Coast Guard. I was in Haiti in 1977. I was in the middle of the Mariel boat lift in 1980. I was in Grenada in 1982. Civilians have no business traveling into a war zone. I had allot of interactions with Haitian boat people between 1976-1988. Hams are civilians and right now Haiti is a war zone. Hams want to help BUT this is a grave situation and a place only for the U.S. Military and it's cutting edge communications systems and weaponry for that matter. Ham radio EMCOMM can assist to a point in disasters within the U.S., such as with Hurricane Katrina but is useless in a war zone in a foreign country. The lack of basic common sense within the ham community that I'm reading on the www and hearing on HF is shocking. 73, GUD DX, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, USA nz4o at arrl.net John 3:16 <>< NZ4O Amateur & SWL Radio Autobiography: http://www.nz4o. org ----- Original Message ----- From: KT2T - Mike Oliver To: polkares at yahoogroup s.com Cc: members at polkemcomm. org ; Polk County Fl. K4LKL , Lakeland ARC Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:39 PM Subject: [LakelandARC] Re: [PolkARES] FW: [WCFARES] Haiti Situation Report - Important Information for All Potential Volunteers To Haiti Hi Evans, I have a passport and can help if needed. 73, Mike, KT2T On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 17:33, Evans F. Mitchell KD4EFM net> wrote: > This is an email being forwarded to you from the Section EC. > > > > > Evans F. Mitchell > KD4EFM / WQFK-894 > > Fla. D-Star Tech Support Group > http://www.florida- dstar.info > > Polk ARES A.E.C. > http://www.polkemco mm.org > > BB8330 PIN: 30965B58 > > > -----Original Message----- > Subject: [WCFARES] Haiti Situation Report - > Important Information for All Potential Volunteers To Haiti > > On Thursday Jan 14 The Section Leadership received a request for us to begin > collecting a list of Amateur Radio Operators who have Passports to possibly > deploy to Haiti. > I started that process immediately and have gathered up 29 Volunteers from > the West Central > Florida Section. I also have had volunteers from other parts of the country > as far away as Alaska > calling or writing for information. > > No amateur has been Nor will they be deployed by the State until The FLEOC > deems it safe > enough to do so and they receive an Official Declaration from either the > Governor or the President > or if they receive a specific request from an agency for amateurs to deploy > with them. There are serious > crime and health problems to deal with at the moment. Repeat NO ONE has yet > been deployed NOR > are there any immediate plans by the FLEOC to do so for the reasons I have > mentioned. It would > appear that the communications part of the emergency will probably be over > in about a week or less > > In my efforts to help insure the Safety and Welfare of our volunteers should > > they be deployed, I have > asked many questions. These questions are about items such as Immunizations > required (it will be made > available to those who are actually deployed) also questions about > reciprocal licensing or waivers as > well as those about equipment needs and limitations if any. > > I want to be sure that in addition to all other traffic coming out of Haiti > made by our volunteers that we > hear from them as at least daily as a minimum or more often as the situation > > dictates. We have a number > of groups/stations who will be listening up for our guys including myself > as well as from SATERN stations, > Local Clubs such as the TARC club and by MARS/SHARES members who by > direction are supporting > SATERN communications. I am also making arrangements to get a VHF Repeater > placed on board one of > the Navy Hospital or supply ships to provide in country comms between > amateurs in and around the > Port-Au-Prince area. > > Those Hams who are tasked to deploy by the State will have their basic > expenses re-imbursed. Things > covered are gas, meals and lodging (if necessary until actual departure) BUT > > ONLY if the FLEOC has > an official declaration as outlined above. > > If I receive valid requests from a church group or others such as the > Salvation Army I will contact those > who have volunteered and the personal expenses involved and workman's > compensation coverage will have > to dealt with by the individual and the non-government organization > requesting them. > > Here is the Official Florida Amateur Radio Operators Deployment Policy: > > ================================================= > > Florida Disaster Amateur Radio Volunteer's Deployment Policy > > It is the Policy of the State EOC and supported by All Three Florida > ARRL Section's (there are similar policies in place by other states) > that: > > All mutual-aid deployments from the state-to-county, or from > County-to-county or Out of Country from Florida will be coordinated > through the State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC) in Tallahassee > and all incoming volunteers unless given a direct assignment will be > staged at the appropriate Staging area in each FDEM Area. > > No amateur radio operators should be physically responding to a disaster > area without having a mission assignment and tracking number assigned > by the Florida Division of Emergency Management and/or your Section's > leadership. (Exceptions would be those Hams already working specifically > as Served agency volunteers and are covered by that agencies Workman's > Compensation) > > NO Self-Deployments by individuals or groups will be allowed and you will > be turned back and sent home. > > We want everyone to be protected by Workman's Compensation and Florida's > Good Samaritan's laws from the moment they leave their home until they > complete their assignments and return home AND that by utilizing this method > we can keep better track and control of where the Amateurs are actually > assigned AND are NEEDED as requested by the county, or countries effected > by the disaster. > > All Amateur Radio Operator Volunteers must be signed up on one of the three > Florida Section's Databases. The one used here in West Central Florida is > http://aresdb@ ab2m.net/ and those volunteers who have completed the > required minimum training courses or have had previous experience in the > Katrina > and Wilma hurricanes dispatched by the FLEOC will be given preference when > selections for assignments are made. > ======================================== > Number 1 on the list to do, is to continually pass the word that self > deployment by people trying to get to Haiti will meet strong resistance from > > all the various law enforcement agencies. The infrastructure is not in place > > to support these type of deployments and they would become part of problem, > not the solution. People without passports or other non authorized people > will be arrested, incarcerated and eventually deport to the USA (With a rap > sheet). > > I know that all of are trying to help in any way we can, but lets keep this > in perspective and let us not get overly excited. I will try to keep > everyone informed as I can > > and your attendance to our WCF ARES Nets on Monday evenings at 7:30 PM on > the NI4CE Repeater System will allow me to do so. Thanks. > > > 73, > > Neil H. Lauritsen, Sr. W4NHL / NNN0TFH > WCF ASM/SEC > ACS Radio Officer/ARES Emergency Coordinator > Cell 727-643-1670 > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > This e-mail contains proprietary information and is confidential. You are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- Mike Oliver, KT2T +1-863-738-2334 kt2t at arrl.net -or- mwoliver at gmail. com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nz4o at tampabay.rr.com Wed Jan 20 10:59:32 2010 From: nz4o at tampabay.rr.com (Thomas F. Giella NZ4O) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:59:32 -0500 Subject: Four M Class Solar Flares Message-ID: <6979108A487B407FB146AD6F0E02ECE2@YOUR5BFDF7BC50> Updated 1900 UTC at http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o4.htm Wow sunspot group #11041 has produced four M class solar flares so far today, a new record for solar cycle 24. They are M3.4 at 1722 UTC, M1.9 at 1054 UTC, M1.7 at 0744 UTC, M1.0 at 0710 UTC. The M3.4 solar flare created yet another sudden ionosphere disturbance (SID) that absorbed radio signals causing a radio black out that reached as high as 12000 kc on the sun light side of the Earth. Geomagnetic storming (Kp-5) has commenced in association with new northern hemisphere coronal hole #389. Posted Wednesday January 20, 2010 at 0330 UTC Recurrent solar cycle 24 sunspot group #11039 has risen above the SE limb of the sun near 27 degrees south. It has been re-numbered #11041 by NOAA/SWPC. It appears as though this sunspot group will be very active and entertaining in future days and possibly push the sunspot count to new record highs. 73 & GUD DX, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, USA nz4o at arrl.net LF/MF/HF/VHF/UHF Frequency Radiowave Propagation Email Reflector: http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/spaceweather NZ4O Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o1.htm NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data In Graphic & Image Format: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o2.htm NZ4O Daily LF/MF/HF/6M Frequency Radiowave Propagation Forecast & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o3.htm NZ4O Solar Cycle 24 Forecast Discussion & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o4.htm NZ4O 160 Meter Radio Propagation Theory Notes: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o5.htm NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Raw Forecast Data Links: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o6.htm From nz4o at tampabay.rr.com Wed Jan 20 15:11:39 2010 From: nz4o at tampabay.rr.com (Thomas F. Giella NZ4O) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:11:39 -0500 Subject: solarcycle24.org New Domain Name Message-ID: <40C71E7DBDE0444485863A154850237E@YOUR5BFDF7BC50> Just an FYI my one stop web page gateway for solar, space and geomagnetic weather data and goings on, plus my daily LF/MF/HF/6M radiowave propagation forecast can now be accessed through a new domain name http://www.solarcycle24.org . 73 & GUD DX, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, USA nz4o at arrl.net LF/MF/HF/VHF/UHF Frequency Radiowave Propagation Email Reflector: http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/spaceweather NZ4O Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o1.htm NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data In Graphic & Image Format: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o2.htm NZ4O Daily LF/MF/HF/6M Frequency Radiowave Propagation Forecast & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o3.htm NZ4O Solar Cycle 24 Forecast Discussion & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o4.htm NZ4O 160 Meter Radio Propagation Theory Notes: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o5.htm NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Raw Forecast Data Links: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o6.htm From edwincx at yahoo.com Thu Jan 21 17:46:51 2010 From: edwincx at yahoo.com (edwincx) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:46:51 -0000 Subject: verifying email address Message-ID: i don't look at this very often From billkodak at verizon.net Thu Jan 21 20:38:28 2010 From: billkodak at verizon.net (Bill) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:38:28 -0000 Subject: Lake Wales car pool Message-ID: The Lake Wales ARC picnic is scheduled for Sat. Jan. 30th at Kiwanis Park in Lake Wales. A covered dish is suggested. Start time will be 1200 hrs. For more information on the park, go to http://www.cityoflakewales.com/parks/map_index.shtml and look for location #3. See the left side panel. Car-pooling might be a good choice because of the distance. If you are interested, respond to this message by either offering to drive, or offering to share expenses. Like to know which hams live near you? Go to the blog, http://lakelandarc.blogspot.com/ and click on Club Members. Find your pin, and then look around. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nz4o at tampabay.rr.com Fri Jan 22 02:14:09 2010 From: nz4o at tampabay.rr.com (Thomas F. Giella NZ4O) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:14:09 -0500 Subject: NZ4O Radiowave Propagation Forecast #2010-04 Message-ID: The NZ4O Daily LF/MF/HF/6M Frequency Radiowave Propagation Forecast #2010-04 has been published on Friday 01/22/2009 at 1000 UTC, valid 0000 UTC Saturday 01/23/2010 through 2359 UTC Friday 01/23/2009 at http://www.solarcycle24.org . 73 & GUD DX, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, USA nz4o at arrl.net LF/MF/HF/VHF/UHF Frequency Radiowave Propagation Email Reflector: http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/spaceweather NZ4O Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.solarcycle24.org NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data In Graphic & Image Format: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o2.htm NZ4O Daily LF/MF/HF/6M Frequency Radiowave Propagation Forecast & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o3.htm NZ4O Solar Cycle 24 Forecast Discussion & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o4.htm NZ4O 160 Meter Radio Propagation Theory Notes: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o5.htm NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Raw Forecast Data Links: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o6.htm Harmful Man Induced Climate Change (Global Warming) Refuted: http://www.globalwarminglie.htm From nz4o at tampabay.rr.com Fri Jan 22 08:33:57 2010 From: nz4o at tampabay.rr.com (Thomas F. Giella NZ4O) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:33:57 -0500 Subject: New Solar Cycle 24 Sunspot Group Message-ID: <53E70B41707245FDA47F8E4BF6FA4612@YOUR5BFDF7BC50> I produced this solar discussion at 1030 UTC after distributing my propagation outlook but then forgot to send it out, DOH! Posted Thursday January 22, 2010 at 1030 UTC at http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o4.htm We have a new solar cycle 24 sunspot group that has emerged in the NW quadrant of the Sun near N29E19. SIDC Belgium assigned it Catania #38 and when numbered by NOAA/SWPC it will be #11042. It appears to have a beta magnetic signature capable of producing B and C class solar flares. The solar flux index values are 84.1 82.6 80.5 and the sunspot number 17. 73 & GUD DX, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, USA nz4o at arrl.net LF/MF/HF/VHF/UHF Frequency Radiowave Propagation Email Reflector: http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/spaceweather NZ4O Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.solarcycle24.org NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data In Graphic & Image Format: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o2.htm NZ4O Daily LF/MF/HF/6M Frequency Radiowave Propagation Forecast & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o3.htm NZ4O Solar Cycle 24 Forecast Discussion & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o4.htm NZ4O 160 Meter Radio Propagation Theory Notes: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o5.htm NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Raw Forecast Data Links: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o6.htm From nz4o at tampabay.rr.com Sat Jan 30 03:39:13 2010 From: nz4o at tampabay.rr.com (Thomas F. Giella NZ4O) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:39:13 -0500 Subject: NZ4O Radiowave Propagation Forecast #2010-05 Message-ID: <66F8665355BD47BA8567A739D62225D8@YOUR5BFDF7BC50> I originally sent this propagation forecast out on Friday morning 01/30/2010 but email problems prevented it's distribution. The NZ4O Daily LF/MF/HF/6M Frequency Radiowave Propagation Forecast #2010-05 has been published at 1400 UTC on Friday 01/29/2009, valid 0000 UTC Saturday 01/30/2010 through 2359 UTC Friday 02/05/2009 at http://www.solarcycle24.org and http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o3.htm . 73 & GUD DX, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, USA nz4o at arrl.net LF/MF/HF/VHF/UHF Frequency Radiowave Propagation Email Reflector: http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/spaceweather NZ4O Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.solarcycle24.org NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data In Graphic & Image Format: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o2.htm NZ4O Daily LF/MF/HF/6M Frequency Radiowave Propagation Forecast & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o3.htm NZ4O Solar Cycle 24 Forecast Discussion & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o4.htm NZ4O 160 Meter Radio Propagation Theory Notes: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o5.htm NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Raw Forecast Data Links: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o6.htm Harmful Man Induced Climate Change (Global Warming) Refuted: http://www.globalwarminglie.org From nz4o at tampabay.rr.com Sun Jan 31 07:19:35 2010 From: nz4o at tampabay.rr.com (Thomas F. Giella NZ4O) Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:19:35 -0500 Subject: New Sunspot Group #11043 Message-ID: <12103BAE713447858C6020B5F5B98E28@YOUR5BFDF7BC50> Posted Sunday January 31, 2010 at 1500 UTC at http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o4.htm On Saturday the 30th a new solar cycle 24 sunspot group emerged in NE quadrant of the Sun near N27E35 and was numbered 11043 by NOAA/SWPC. It contains a beta magnetic signature capable of producing B class and isolated C class solar flares. On Saturday the 30th the solar flux index values were 77.0 75.0 74.2 and the sunspot number 25. We have had visible sunspots for 10 days in a row, 23 of the last 24 days and 34 of the last 36 days. I think that we can safely say that solar cycle 24 is well underway and steadily picking up it's pace. Sunspot group #11041 is now a spotless plage near S27W58 and will soon cross the SW limb of the Sun. 73 & GUD DX, Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O Lakeland, FL, USA nz4o at arrl.net LF/MF/HF/VHF/UHF Frequency Radiowave Propagation Email Reflector: http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/spaceweather NZ4O Daily Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data Archive: http://www.solarcycle24.org NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Data In Graphic & Image Format: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o2.htm NZ4O Daily LF/MF/HF/6M Frequency Radiowave Propagation Forecast & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o3.htm NZ4O Solar Cycle 24 Forecast Discussion & Archive: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o4.htm NZ4O 160 Meter Radio Propagation Theory Notes: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o5.htm NZ4O Solar Space Weather & Geomagnetic Raw Forecast Data Links: http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o6.htm