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Harvey Heagy <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 29 May 2012 09:24:31 -0500
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Lloyd, Are you referring to Lowell Miller?  I was not aware that he was a 
silent key.  A friend of mine bought his Blazie Braille printer from him 
last year.  73.
Harvey
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 6:15 AM
Subject: Re: a good talking weather station?


>I thought that Lowell, W8QIY, was running an accessible weather station.
> Although it might be W8QLR, who is now a silent key.
>
> In addition to the Window-Eyes "Weather or not" app, I sometimes go to
> classic.wunderground.com and set it up for my ZIP code.  This page 
> contains
> several tables.  Here in the Washington area, the fourteenth table 
> contains
> listings of near-current data from 30 weather stations within a few miles 
> of
> each other.  Obviously, the data in North Dakota will be much more sparse.
> I don't find Wunderground to be such a good system for tracking 
> fast-moving
> lines of thunderstorms, etc., but our local radio station, WTOP, does a 
> good
> job of describing what's on the weather radar.  The Weather app for the
> iPhone or iPod is also useful if you can keep it synchronized.
> 73,
> Lloyd Rasmussen, W3IUU, Kensington, Maryland
> Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
> Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls 

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