i'm storm chaser for NWS And i'm ham radio operator. When i chase i cover a large amount of ground and drive in many states and areas mostly rural areas i have a great cell phone service to talk to NWS offices to relay reports for storms. But some times i get in a area with no towers for 50 miles or more. Yes there are these areas out on the plains. I need a ham radio to talk to a repeater 20-40 miles away that likes into a superlink of repeaters so i can talk state wide to other ham in skywarn networks or to the state NWS office. But sometime even those repeaters are out of range so i have get on 20 meters HF band to talk to a Skywarn weather net around 14.270mhz USB and relay reports that way so warning can go out and reports more creditable. yes NWS can use there radar to see some storms but i can see a storm up next to it. Giving a live report and tracks of the storm over cell phone and ham radio to the people at the NWS for issueing a warning so you people known there is a tornado or large hail coming. To this date i have made over 600 report of tornados to the NWS which issused warnings that their radar never picked up on that a tornado was there over 60% of report were made with ham radio.
I guess your point is even experienced HAM's don't know proper grammar and punctuation?
A photo of one of the engineers working on BPL doing some end user field testing. Shown is a 1524 Mbps transmission. Notice the Daffey Duck form of the wave front. Unforunately these tests ended tragically as is illustrated by the court room artist's drawing.
