whee, more snow!
Jan. 21st, 2014 01:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twoelevenwe've already gotten a few inches -- and pushed snow off the driveway twice -- and we haven't even gotten to the good part when a low deepens off the carolina coast and turns into a nor'easter. we may get more than HM foot (reformed) of snow. whee!
OTOH, the automagic warning feature on the weather radio appears so unreliable as to be useless. it's been flakey for a while. since the radio has fallen off the narrow ledge where it lives a couple of times, i wondered if the built-in antenna's internal connection had gotten busted.
yesterday, i picked up a couple of meters of coax and stripped the conductors back to make a dipole antenna for it. no dice: the NWS voice station is presently intoning an automated dire message, but radio either isn't receiving or isn't responding to the digital sidebands containing the encoded warning. *sigh* time to get a new one.
edit: we pushed more snow off the driveway around 5pm/2200Z. by the time we got to the bottom, the top needed to be done again...
OTOH, the automagic warning feature on the weather radio appears so unreliable as to be useless. it's been flakey for a while. since the radio has fallen off the narrow ledge where it lives a couple of times, i wondered if the built-in antenna's internal connection had gotten busted.
yesterday, i picked up a couple of meters of coax and stripped the conductors back to make a dipole antenna for it. no dice: the NWS voice station is presently intoning an automated dire message, but radio either isn't receiving or isn't responding to the digital sidebands containing the encoded warning. *sigh* time to get a new one.
edit: we pushed more snow off the driveway around 5pm/2200Z. by the time we got to the bottom, the top needed to be done again...