Lowell is still around.  Lloyd was referring to w8qlr.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harvey Heagy" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: silent key question


> 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
>