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Didn’t catch any lightning, but ironically caught a rainbow over the Goldwater Air Force Range. Zero cell coverage out there, but had a chat via 2 meter on a repeater in the White Tank Mountains with a guy in Phoenix, and a guy in Flagstaff (RimLink).
“SKYWARN® is a volunteer program with nearly 290,000 trained severe weather spotters. These volunteers help keep their local communities safe by providing timely and accurate reports of severe weather to the National Weather Service.”
We generally function as local “eyes on the ground,” or “ground truth” for the National Weather Service – they’ve got the radar and stuff, but need the input as to things like debris in the road, local flooding, et cetera.
I had an interesting conversation with one of the VEs after the exams – they made me promise that I had studied for the General before they let me take it because two of the others in my exam session failed their Technician exam.
He was very, very interested in the idea that I had built my own lightning trigger (the Arduino-based IR sensor I use) for the camera, and suggested I get QSL cards printed with some of my photos – this was his favorite:
I don’t have my call sign yet. Waiting for the FCC to update ULS.
Saturday afternoon down south of Amado, Arizona, looking east across Highway 19 between Tucson and Nogales:
Buddy of mine hooked me up with a vacuformed beauty dish for a speedlight. 21″ diameter, pretty light weight. I like what it does to a single speedlight:
