>>> If you know of any specific networks that are planning to activate for this >>> event, please post that info here (and elsewhere).
I'm at my summer home in the mountains of western North Carolina, near Hendersonville,and we're expecting 99.9% totality at this QTH. From the reports in the local news media, a huge influx of visitors is expected, which will basically saturatethe region, including (especially) the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (which spans parts of bothNC and TN), as well as the lower part of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Local EM officials are very concernedabout response times for emergency response units because the roads in that area are narrow (very fewof which are 4 lane), and very winding, with many switchbacks, blind corners, and steep drop-offs. Buncombe County ARES (greater Asheville) has been enlisted to provide additional communications toaugment normal first response communications facilities. Other counties have not, as yet, to my (admittedly limited) knowledge, formally called up local ARES groups. I'm reasonably certain, based on personal experience with holiday traffic, that Interstate 40 in western NC,and Interstate 26 in western NC and upstate SC (and probably all the way down to Charleston) will bevery, very crowded/jammed. Both of them are mostly 4-lane, albeit with some hill-climbing lanes for trucks,but tend to get very crowded, even on "normal" weekends. There are several 630m experimental stations in the immediate vicinity who are planning WSPRtransmissions throughout the event, and reception reports are always appreciated. Luckily, it's a short walk (~1/4 mile) for my XYL and I to the local community park from which we can observe. 73, Brandy, N1HO ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
