On Aug 16, 4:49 pm, Skip Gundlach wrote:


HEy Skip................ Keep those stories coming. ALso, I think
youre doing the rigt thing loging inland time. The more the better.
Once ya get that so routeen, rote, and boaring youll be ready for
some NC stuff.
And remember ur LIving your dream so have fun!
Bob

Hello,

I have been reading your posts and always manage to get entertained by
them although how you find the time is a mystery to me. Anyway I saw you
make reference to some weather pictures being downloaded in the
background. Can you elaborate on this setup?.

Thanks,

Jeannette
SV Con Te Partiro, Mazatlan

Skip Gundlach wrote:
On Aug 16, 7:18 pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:34:00 -0000, Skip Gundlach

Jeannette wrote in news:EMnxi.49875$YL5.30303
@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net:

Hello,

I have been reading your posts and always manage to get entertained by
them although how you find the time is a mystery to me. Anyway I saw
you
make reference to some weather pictures being downloaded in the
background. Can you elaborate on this setup?.

Thanks,

Jeannette
SV Con Te Partiro, Mazatlan

Skip Gundlach wrote:
On Aug 16, 7:18 pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:34:00 -0000, Skip Gundlach




I think Skip and Lydia are back at sea, but I've been aboard their boat
here in Charleston so know what he has:

http://hamtronics.com/r139.htm

Flying Pig has a different kind of antenna, but this is their direct
satellite 137 Mhz Weatherfax receiver. You simply leave it running,
attached to your laptop with the weatherfax software running in
background. When the satellite transmits its current picture to the
ground, you pick it up in a wide footprint across North America. The
receiver automatically scans all the satellite channels so whatever bird
is in range of you, you'll get the pictures, which are not transmitted
continuously.

http://www.dxzone.com/cgi-bin/dir/jump2.cgi?ID=14606
Flying Pig has this antenna mounted up on its aft arch on the starboard
side of the solar array. I doubt it works any better than the turnstile
antenna from Hamtronics, which would be much easier to keep aloft than
this monster. I must admit it does make an impressive picture. I'm not
sure whether Skip's is a commercial or homebrew model.

Hope this helps. The pictures are very detailed. It's like having
access to the same pictures on the internet. Here's the picture it
produces from my favorite weather site:
http://vortex.plymouth.edu/gE_ir.gif
The Plymouth State College (NH) weather site is completely operated by
meteorology students and free for all without all the SPAM nonsense. (c;



These *******s keep calling me so I'm feeding them to the spambots.
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On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:27:15 +0000, Larry wrote:

Jeannette wrote in news:EMnxi.49875$YL5.30303
:

Hello,

Flying Pig has a different kind of antenna, but this is their direct
satellite 137 Mhz Weatherfax receiver. You simply leave it running,
attached to your laptop with the weatherfax software running in
background. When the satellite transmits its current picture to the
ground, you pick it up in a wide footprint across North America. The
receiver automatically scans all the satellite channels so whatever bird
is in range of you, you'll get the pictures, which are not transmitted
continuously.

http://www.dxzone.com/cgi-bin/dir/jump2.cgi?ID=14606
Flying Pig has this antenna mounted up on its aft arch on the starboard
side of the solar array. I doubt it works any better than the turnstile
antenna from Hamtronics, which would be much easier to keep aloft than
this monster. I must admit it does make an impressive picture. I'm not
sure whether Skip's is a commercial or homebrew model.

Hope this helps. The pictures are very detailed. It's like having
access to the same pictures on the internet. Here's the picture it
produces from my favorite weather site:
http://vortex.plymouth.edu/gE_ir.gif
The Plymouth State College (NH) weather site is completely operated by
meteorology students and free for all without all the SPAM nonsense. (c;



These *******s keep calling me so I'm feeding them to the spambots.

Larry,
I have looked at these links and have spent the last few hours
wandering about the web. What I cannot find out is whether I can
receive these photos south of the equator. Seems like a great system
at a reasonable cost. Can you advise please.

cheers
Peter
N.Z. yacht Herodotus

Does this make Lydia the wife of Bath?

Frank (with apologies to Chaucer - and Lydia!)

Skip, I agree with another poster, keep the reports coming. As for
the negative responses, rest assure that many of their authors have
"never been there". I am reminded of a particular thread when a
poster exclaimed "what were they doing there at that time, anyway?"
Had he ever been there, he'd know!

My only complaint is that on this board the entire thread is displayed
each time there is a new post and therefore, it is not easy to read,
having to scroll through pages and pages of posts that may be a month
old.

Peter
s/v Now or Never!

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:32:34 -0700, Peter wrote:

Skip, I agree with another poster, keep the reports coming. As for
the negative responses, rest assure that many of their authors have
"never been there". I am reminded of a particular thread when a
poster exclaimed "what were they doing there at that time, anyway?"
Had he ever been there, he'd know!

My only complaint is that on this board the entire thread is displayed
each time there is a new post and therefore, it is not easy to read,
having to scroll through pages and pages of posts that may be a month
old.

Check out newsreaders, which are much more efficient for reading
newsgroups. You must be able to connect to a news server, however.
My ISP provides a news server, as I think most do.
The one I have used for many years, though I have an older version:
http://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php

--Vic

Peter wrote:

My only complaint is that on this board the entire thread is displayed
each time there is a new post and therefore, it is not easy to read,
having to scroll through pages and pages of posts that may be a month
old.

Peter
s/v Now or Never!

You need a better news reader then. I can set mine to show only the
posts I have not read. (I use Forte Agent and I also get my email
that way, but there are other ways to do it.