Thursday

October 6th, 2016

Just got back from lunch at Fish Creel in Anderson, Al

On the way to Fish Creel we drove by fields and fields of cotton ready to be harvested.

6 dollars for Catfish, French Fries, Cole Slaw, Hush Puppies, Desert and Sweet Tea.

That includes the tax so the bill was 12.00 for the two of us.

Tony and Helen who live on their boat here at Joe Wheelers took us there and were great company.

Nothing fancy, parking lot was packed but we walked right in to open tables and were served faster than fast!

Fish Creel

Reminds Mike of Wendts' Bar and Harbor on Lake Winnebago...

Oh, we took home our deserts because we were stuffed....

Thursday

October 6th, 2016

Amateur Radio on the Loop

With Propagation being so poor over the last couple years, I was happy to hear friends from Milwaukee Wisconsin and other parts of the US talking on the Milwaukee Florida Net this morning.

Tom, K9BTQ runs the net out of Milwaukee but my copy or reception on him was lite, so John N1YV out of Connecticut picked me up and acted as a relay back to Tom from my location here in Rogersville, AL.

Thanks John!

Last evening I was listening to the Hurricane Net on 14.325 mhz and got some realtime information about Hurricane Matthew.

The net control operator here in the US was calling other ham operators in Haiti and the Bahamas.

When weather takes out all normal communications, ham radio operators are there relaying realtime information back to authorities just as they did during Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana. 

The link below is a quick Youtube video from WRAL-TV which explains how Amateur Radio or Ham Radio operators help!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC0u42MnMdM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IITBpLQmmiI

This is Kilo Nine Bravo Bravo November (K9BBN) marine mobile clear and listening....