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Dedicated Doppler Radar Display for Hamshack	Reply
by N5PVL on August 25, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
If you have one of the new digital broadcast TV boxes, chances are that one of the channels in your area is a 24 hour doppler radar display. Just hook the box up with a set of rabbit ears and an old TV, and leave it on the doppler radar channel full-time, with the sound muted. Put it up in an out of the way corner of your hamshack, where you can glance at it whenever you wish. You end up learning a lot about your local weather this way, it's cheap and works great. I did this with my DTV box because I have cable and don't need the box for anything else. It makes your shack look modern and official, and if you are not careful, you just might learn something about your local weather patterns. It's fun to watch a storm cell creep up on your location. In the event of a real weather event, you can always turn the sound up but the real benefit comes from having it muted for a 24/7 weather display. 73 DE Charles, N5PVL

RE: Dedicated Doppler Radar Display for Hamshack	Reply
by KF4URY on August 30, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
I did the same thing for a while with two DTV tuners and a pair of 7" LCD screens that had A/V inputs, adds a bit of wackiness to the desktop too.....

RE: Dedicated Doppler Radar Display for Hamshack	Reply
by KG4RUL on August 30, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
"It makes your shack look modern and official" And, if you add a whoopee siren & a light bar, it will impress even more! Charles, I expected better from you! HI HI

RE: Dedicated Doppler Radar Display for Hamshack	Reply
by N5PVL on August 30, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
>by KG4RUL on August 30, 2009 >"It makes your shack look modern and official" > >And, if you add a whoopee siren & a light bar, it will >impress even more! > >Charles, I expected better from you! HI HI I don't know about the whoopee siren and light bar, but having a full-time doppler radar display in your shack can be quite useful. I didn't expect any better from you, your post was par for the course, the old ignorant/arrogant combination we all are so familiar with. 73 DE Charles, N5PVL

RE: Dedicated Doppler Radar Display for Hamshack	Reply
by KG4RUL on August 30, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
Charles, I was jibing at you for the "official" in your remarks. That is what you come to expect from the Gold Ham Radio Badge contingent. If you can't take a little joke, then stay off the boards!

RE: Dedicated Doppler Radar Display for Hamshack	Reply
by N5PVL on September 1, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
I understand that there are many who see denigration and tearing down as humor, that's 90% of what passes for humor on the 'comedy' channel. - But I do not see it as humor at all. Silly me, I expect humor to be fun and uplifting, not ugly and destructive. There's something to the 'official' thing in a hamshack... Everyone who gets a glance at my shack is impressed by the dedicated, full-time doppler radar display. Despite the TV channel number prominently displayed in the upper left hand corner of the screen, I've been asked more than once how I got the dedicated feed, if it's from the internet etc.. One visitor thought I had some kind of special deal with the NWS, or something. I get a kick out of explaining that it's just a DTV box, an old television set, and an outside TV antenna in the attic that we quit using when we went over to cable, years ago. I have a 27" set that lost it's audio due to a lightning strike... It has a much better picture than the old set I'm using now. I plan to hook it up for this purpose as soon as I can weld up a mount to get it in an upper corner of the room, out of the way. The audio on the radar channel is just a NWS radio feed, I can get that from a number of other sources such as an HT or a scanner if I want it. 73 DE Charles, N5PVL

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by KF4URY on September 4, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
As an added note.... One of local stations also has NWS broadcast audio on the 24hr radar channel. If you choose the alternate audio, you can hear they actually rebroadcast three different NWS stations in the area.

RE: Dedicated Doppler Radar Display for Hamshack	Reply
by W3JKS on September 6, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
On a related note, hanging monitors (LCD or CRT-based) from the ceiling is a piece of cake if you don't have easy access to welding equipment. I hung a number of 25" CRT-based video monitors quite a few years ago using standard electrical Unistrut structural channel. I have moved this rig several times, converted from CRT to LCD and never had to modify it. The "U" shape of the channel allows movement from one end to the other with a simple socket wrench. All you need is a little (easily made) adapter from the more-or-less standard VESA mount to the unistrut captive hardware and you are in business. Bigger monitors or different angles have always been easy to accomodate. Ask any electrician (or power utility engineer :-), Unistrut structural chanelling (and the knock-offs) is the Bees' Knees! It even comes in colors (if you like green) and other material such as aluminum or stainless. 73s, john W3JKS/AAT3BF/AAM3EDE/AAA9AC

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