John Hanrahan
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Anyway, just to point out guys, we are still testing so there are one or two bugs to sort out but were almost there. Thinking I'll change the camera also. Was a bit of a haze coming down and wasnt that bright when testing. Pity, was beautiful all dat here. lighting wass probably more like driving into a supercell anyway :lol: Thanks for helping us test this!
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Anyone see that last guy almost hit me on that roundabout. YOU ARE ALL WITNESSES! :lol:
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Just picking up some servers on way home from work guys. Will be on the move again in 5 mins. Camera a bit out of focus so will sort too.
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Will be about another 5 mins before we can start the streaming test.
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Hi Cookie,
They are special weather radios. They operate on the FM bands but can’t be picked up on a standard FM radio as its uses frequencies in or around 120 MHz (I could be wrong on the frequency). They have about 12 different channels; each channel is for a different region. You can get the weather radios for about 20 dollars in wall mart or the like. You can also pickup the same broadcasts on XM Radio.
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I love you're count down timer mate.
Cheers, i was trying to embed the timer in the Sig for Paul but the security on the forum wont allow me to run Java Script. Thought I had taken it off cause its a bit on the basic side. Might jaz it up a little.
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as the GPS Man is also the Updater to the forum and when I am screaming at him for a road option that kind of takes priority.
Which is very very funny
:lol: . Probably a good thing were not going to have audio on the live stream eh Paul. -
I believe it airs in June
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OK, here's my stuff so far. I'm sure there will be more....
Canon 450 D
Sony DCR 40 Handycam
Fujifilm Finepix J90 point and shoot
Canon EFS 18 – 55 mm Lens
Canon EF 70 – 200 mm L Series Lens
2 x USB Cables
2 x 4 GB SDHC Cards
Spare HC battery for Handycam
Remote Cable for Canon 450
Infared Remote for Canon
Infared Remote for Handycam
1 Small tripod. Will buy cheap bigger tripod over there.
1 Dell Latitude D530
External 250 GB HDD
Strikealert portable lightning detector
Home made lightning trigger addon that plugs into strikealert.
6 way UK / Ireland socket board with US plug
Pocket Loox Sat Nav with US Maps
12v to 230v 350w inverter with UK / Ireland Socket
12 Pairs of socks
2 Pairs of jeans (brought 4 last year) wont be wearing jeans that often
6 or 7 pairs of shorts
Sandals
2 pairs of underpants. 1 for chase days and 1 for down days
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LOL. Cant keep anything quiet here Yeah, I've converted a one of the portable StrikeAlert thingies into a trigger for a Canon 450D. But proof will be in the puddin. In Early tests I've been able to photograph the electronic ignition for a gas hob in daylight. I think it might be a bit sensetive for over there, but we will see. If it works well I'll publish some build instructions.
God I'm in bad need of a storm now!!
Roll on April!
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Just had a real good idea with cards...........Would be cheaper to buy an external HD at say 400gb at around £45.Then just move all vids and pics every night over to drive........would work out cheaper than buying many cards
Would defo work out cheaper Dogs. Thats what I'll be doing. One little thing about external HDD's though is that if your copying all your photo's / video to one drive and then formatting your camera media, pretty much all your eggs in one basket. Ext HDD's aren't so good with shock either, where as solid state media such as SD or CF are much better in that regard. I'll be backing up my data to external HDD and I'll also make sure I'll have ample space on my notebook HDD to store a seperate copy of same until I get home. I'll try and make sure both travel seperatlely
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I enjoyed that. Hope my wife wont get any pointers from Alison though. I think I saw her taking notes :lol:
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Nice one Paul. Loioking forward to more of the same.
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this hail is out of this planet...45 secs in..
love to witness Hail like that..but not on my head
Good old Reed Timmer. He's a nutter. There is a good chance you'll bump into them when out on the chase this year. They had a contract with Boeing last year to collect large hail when on the chase and preserve it for analysis by Boeing. One of his guys (Chris Chituck or something I think) had to jump out with helmet and padding etc any time they were being hammered by large hail to collect the stuff. Very funny to watch on Storm Chasers Season 2
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Yeah I know what you mean about getting nothing done dogs. Last year I wasn't so bad becalse I only deciided to go chasing about a month before the first chase, so it was really only a month of being unproductive, but I decided to go on this trip ages ago so I'm basically screwed. Needless to say, wife and boss (is there a difference :blink: ) are not happy campers!
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Yeah, getting really exited about it now myself, I'm dreaming about chasing every night, some of the dreams are really weird but I wont get into that :blink: . I've been meaning to put some of my own footage up from Tour 1 08 all year, just finding it hard to get down to editing. Will get something up this week.
Paul, the countdown to stormchase 2009 in your sig, is that an automatic countdown or are you modifying it daily. If its automatic how do you do it?
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I'm not really a drinker but maybe for a special occasion like that! :lol:
Me neither MCT, but Ian, Stu and Paul are total alco's! :lol:
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Installed my new Lightning detector over the weekend. Data available here....
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Mark
Did no-one tell you that after Chasing Supercells from 3pm until 8-9pm we then position ourselves about 50 miles East of the Supercells and let them come to us, they usually produce a 3-5 Hour Lightning display until 2-3am in the Morning from an MCS Or a Violent Squall Line with Bow Echoes
And we drink lots of beer while watching them. Heaven!
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And it looks like the party bus is back together!!!
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Hi all,
We've decided to go with Jurys Inn on Cork for the accommodation. Probably the cheapest we can get being in the heart of the city. It works out at €79 on Friday and €89 on Saturday per room.
It works out cheap enough since we can have 2 - 3 people per room. As few of have been on via PM and have booked allready, Paul S, Nick F, Ian C and Stu_London and myself.
For anyone else who hasnt made arrangements yet, you can book online at http://www.jurysinns.com/ Probably best to organise sharing arrangements between yourselves either here or PM. Booking can be done with any major credit card the card is only for guarantee purposes. So no payment will be taken from the card used to book, basically you can split the bill etc with whoever your sharing with etc, or you may not want to share, whatever. Calcellations can be made up untill 2:00 PM on check in day so if anyone needs to pull out for whatever reason or if we end up with an extra room etc we have plenty of time to cancel the room without penalty.
Hope this is OK with everyone. Let me know if you have any questions. <_<
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i'm thinking of driving over - what are my ferry options?
Hey Stu,
Your best bet is Fishguard to Rosslare with Stenna-Lina
http://www.stenaline.ferries.org
Or Pembroke to Rosslare with Irish Ferries
and then drive down to Cork via Waterford. Allot of driving on the UK side. About 2.5 hours drive to Cork from Rosslare.
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I knew that! Just wasn't sure on the London airport, there's about 5 of 'em.
There's more than one airport in London? :wacko:
Seriously though mate, looking forward to seeing ya.
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:huh: LOL What airport! Cork boy!
Lol! Ok, thanks - what airline and what airport?cheers!
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and your going to have that and more back at the hotel at the end of every chase day!