Isn't it Amazing...

[Billy Griffin]

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!

 

[Angel Dimitrov]

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