What looked like yet another hurricane that was going to arc out to sea is increasingly predicted to enter the coast north of us, perdictions have it breaching the coast between Maryland and Pennsylvania (all open to change), putting our home in Virginia into the western semi-circle of slightly lower winds, but this hurricane is on a track that could easily knock-out commercial infrastructure for many people. Here, I've been charging batteries, retrieving equipment from a tin shed for safer storage and filling water containers. QRP radio is no problem, because the basic radios operate for a week of sjeds from AA cells and the big batteries are recharged via folding, portable 'expedition' solar panels (www.ctsolar.com) and a few mil-surplus , folding panels. Entertainment/news radios are the plastic, hand-crank jobs, one with a built-in light.
>>>=====> This is a fine illustration of why skeds arranged by internet are no better than selling our radios and using only internet. A regular - hopefully daily- quick check is great, even if it's just to check-in. The next is having a regular net that you check-in with, like the MMSN on 14300USB, or some of the CW nets like the waterway CW net or some of the traffic handling CW nets (which are likely my next move).
I am curious what others in the storm track are doing?
73 de RadioRay ..._ ._
>>>=====> This is a fine illustration of why skeds arranged by internet are no better than selling our radios and using only internet. A regular - hopefully daily- quick check is great, even if it's just to check-in. The next is having a regular net that you check-in with, like the MMSN on 14300USB, or some of the CW nets like the waterway CW net or some of the traffic handling CW nets (which are likely my next move).
I am curious what others in the storm track are doing?
73 de RadioRay ..._ ._