[Coco] Ham Radio for the CoCo

[Stephen Fischer]

Here in the San Francisco Bay area TV Weather has come full circle.

Two TV stations have put up their own Doppler Radars and a third TV 
station has one on a truck they can drive around.

The fourth, the leader in News and Weather local station responded with 
their Radar maps having numerous weather sweeps that could not be 
contributing.

One of the useful sweeps comes and goes and none match the sweeps done 
by the radars.

What has changed is that the forecast the Weatherman and the Weather 
Consultants use is mostly graphic now and the transition from Radar to 
Forecast is sometimes hard to tell and the Weatherman often misses his 
statement when the switch has occurred.

So, while the station has two of the most experienced weathermen with 
long on air times, their replacements will not have that experience and 
just will look at the "Green" on the forecast. Anyone who is not color 
blind can be a weather forecaster now.

I did not like the switch at the time and what is displayed but not 
stated is both Radar and Satellite data appears at the same time.

They now have wind speed, Water Vapor and lots of displays that look 
great and the ability to generate maps that showed why the rain was so 
bad down in Santa Barbara. Any why Santa Rosa was hit by a blowtorch 
formed by topology.

Coastal fog is shown on the Radar but actually is a very small 
temperature difference seen by a Satellite.

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The main weatherman for the biggest station at the time long ago said 
starting tomorrow they will not be caught unaware of upcoming weather 
when the satellite was activated. What happened very quickly was mother 
nature forming a weather front, dropping rain on San Francisco and 
disappearing.

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SHF

On 3/23/2018 2:25 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:

> I had the coco2 wefax running at the tv station for about a month. but
> the weather folks we had were only doing rip and read & from ap/upi, and
> had little or no interest in the maps I gave them, so that project got
> retired. I'm not sure if the service is even on the air anymore, and I
> don't have an rx for it anyway.

Yes it is but I keep forgetting to turn my communications receiver on to 
confirm for my self. Actually it sounds like it is on right now.