[Mishmash] The recent weather.

[Richard Barth]

Hi, Fred.  Glad to hear you missed the worst of the weather.  It's 
turning out to be a helluva
spring, with tornadoes in Georgia, flooding over a good part of the 
country, and snow where
there isn't anything else going on.  We've been lucky around here; 
nothing but a little rain
and some winds.  About 60 mph recorded, took down my multi-band 
dipole but it needed to come
down anyway so I could work on the traps.  I guess it saved me some 
trouble.  :-)

I'll be going to Timonium hamfest next weekend.  My son, who has been 
out of work in the
computer biz for some time, is starting a side business (as I may 
have mentioned already).
He's planning on taking up as much stuff as the Corolla will hold and 
seeing what sells
in two days.  He says he did fairly well there last year, and will be 
taking along more
gear than last time.  I wish him luck.  I'll be at Timonium full time 
both Saturday and
Sunday so I can spell him when he wants to take a break in addition 
to looking around the
show.  I'm looking for a 25 amp or so 12V supply to match the six 
meter rig I picked up
recently through AMRAD.  Nothing else I need, but I'll probably find 
some more junk to
bring home.  Somehow I always do.  :-)

73,

Dick

At 05:45 AM 3/16/2008, you wrote:
>Hi, Dick,
>
>     Atlanta is Downtown.  I would estimate that where I live was about
>twelve to fifteen miles north of where (in Atlanta) that the tornado
>occurred.
>
>     Two people were killed, one in Floyd county and one in Polk county
>(Polk county is two counties west of where I live and Floyd county is
>one county north of Polk county).  See
>http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/maps/georgia_map.html .  Both of them
>are on the GA/AL border.
>
>     We were having the Marietta hamfest yesterday and attendance there
>was down because of the weather conditions.  However, at one point I was
>told we collected thirteen hundred dollars in attendance fees.  That's
>in the neighborhood of two hundred and twenty tickets.
>
>     We tested a bunch of folks, mostly for those who wanted to become
>amateurs and some who were upgrading their licenses.  As yet, I don't
>have any statistics as to how many tests where passed.  Though I am a
>certified VE (volunteer examiner), I didn't do any of the actual
>examining this time.  I sat out front of the exam area, collected the
>exam fee, verified picture IDs (as required by FCC rules) and made sure
>that they got their form 605 and our VEC's (Volunteer Examiner
>Coordinator) examination card filed out correctly before I sent them
>into the exam area so that the other VE (volunteer examiners) could
>administer and grade their exams.  I'm sure we collected over four
>hundred dollars in licensing fees.  At fourteen dollars per exam, that
>would be about thirty applicants.  And it may have been more than that
>by the time we were done.  One father/son came in very late in the
>testing session because they were delayed due to the weather situation.
>Under the circumstances, we let them test anyway.
>
>     You can read about the tornado situation it in the Atlanta Journal
>Constitution at
>http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/03/14/domeburst_0315.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab 
>.
>
>     Regards,
>
>
>
>                                                             Fred
>
>
>
>
>
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