• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Isn't it Amazing...

Oh how behind-the-times you guys were, LOL. Back before cell phones, and back before you could get weather info by pager, my wife and I made up a numeric system and she would stay at home to send me a message to my pager (remember those old numeric pagers?). With our plan... Each county had a number, the type of warning/watch had a number, and I would have to "interpret" this while driving using my Atlas (remember those?) and perhaps getting some weather info by commercial radio, ham radio, or scanner.

Sometimes, I miss those days... but then I come to my senses real quick! :-)
 
old days

Hello,

For me the chasing starts at noon with printed morning sfc/upr maps and a sounding. I have new extra for 2008 - an cheap GSM with SMS messages on 30 minutes with the latest observational data (a debian with cron and mail2sms;). The AM radio comes handy when I'm close to TCU, easy to find the moment when it's going to Cb, no sat/rad during chasing.

I'm like a chaser in the 80s and belive me it's enjoyable. The fun sometimes is not proportional to the technology gadges you have. $10 for fuel, road maps, no GPS, but the old good compass. If the sky is not overcasted, I can find the storm updraft pretty easy:-)

Angel
 
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