We live 0.7 miles from the point of 100% totality lasting for some 2 minutes 30 seconds. Guess I'll ride my bike up the road to the point. At our house we will only have something like 99.2% totality.
Bob, K4TAX Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 17, 2017, at 8:09 PM, ab4iqkf4cxo <[email protected]> wrote: > > Come to Paducah KY if you want a good glimpse of the eclipse. Bring plenty > of money! Hi Hi.. > > Ed... AB4IQ > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Clay Autery > Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2017 12:05 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Eclipse logistics and em-comm nets? > > Wow... sure hope this isn't the case in North Tennessee... :) > > ______________________ > Clay Autery, KY5G > MONTAC Enterprises > (318) 518-1389 > >> On 8/17/2017 11:17 AM, Wayne Burdick wrote: >> Many of us are headed into the solar eclipse zone in the next few days, my >> family included. We’re leaving today for Ashland, Oregon. Early on Saturday >> (possibly *very* early), we’ll be driving to a campground in Corvallis, >> right in the Path of Totality. >> >> There are widespread predictions of epic gridlock for many of Oregon’s >> roadways. I’m guessing this will be true in other states as well. >> Authorities are suggesting that travelers have several days worth of food >> and water, as they could be stranded on freeways that become parking lots. >> Many gas stations in small towns like Bend are already out of fuel. >> >> The cellphone network could be affected as well. Imaging 1 million people >> camping, in effect, on I-5, state route 97, etc., trying to call home or >> reach emergency services. Under the circumstances, amateur radio may very we >> called upon to provide emergency communications. Fortunately many of us will >> be using mobile or portable stations that are immune to loss of power or >> cell service. >> >> If you know of any specific networks that are planning to activate for this >> event, please post that info here (and elsewhere). >> >> Lacking any defined plan, I’ll be monitoring 7283.5 kHz, home of the daily >> west-coast “Noontime Net”. 40 meters is ideal for this sort of regional >> coordination and emergency traffic, especially in areas not well served by >> VHF/UHF repeaters. I’ll have a KX2, some wire, and a couple of Li-ion >> internal battery packs. >> >> 73, >> Wayne >> N6KR > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message > delivered to [email protected] > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
