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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">It is a great Web Interface.<br>
Here is Pa. <a
href="http://waterwatch.usgs.gov/?m=real&w=gmap®ions=pa">Click</a><br>
Already well covered by the USGS.<br>
It may be more a matter of the USGS not talking to the NWS if there not
getting enough data from this interface.<br>
<br>
In Pittsburgh the Hydrologist at the Pittsburgh NWS do a pretty good
job estimating when there will be any flooding.<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">His tools</font><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> </font><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">are </font><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">the automated </font><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">river </font><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">gauges, and rain gauges reports
from Skywarn Hams .<br>
<br>
I think around Pittsburgh Pa area, APRS Weather Stations with rain
gauges would be more useful.<br>
Hams are not always available to give rain </font><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">gauge</font><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> reports, APRS Weather station
would be 24/7.<br>
In the summer, hit and miss Thunderstorms can dump 2 inches of rain in
one area, with other areas with no rain.<br>
<br>
In Western Pa, ALL rain runoff ends up in the Ohio River, downtown
Pittsburgh.<br>
Major river flooding usually happens the day after the rain comes.<br>
Small creeks and streams are the ones that will flood first, day of the
rain.<br>
Lots of hills around Pittsburgh. From 3,200 Ft Mt Davis to 680 ft in
altitude </font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Pittsburgh </font><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">in less than 50 miles.<br>
Water goes down hill.<br>
N3FLR - Frank<br>
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On 12/17/2010 9:10 PM, Steve Noskowicz wrote:
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<div>Thanks Frank,</div>
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<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div>That's him! Boy, they sure have a nice Web interface.</div>
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<div>And the Thompson road bridge unit is still reporting, so
it is still there...somewhere.</div>
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<div>Steve</div>
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<div id="yiv204931364"><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">... Check this link <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/rt"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click</a><br>
N3FLR - Frank<br>
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On 12/17/2010 8:11 PM, Steve Noskowicz wrote:
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<div>Hey! Wait a minute...! This is *already* done
automaticlly and by radio.<br>
<br>
Cycling last spring on the bicycle path from Cristal Lake, IL to
south of Algonquin, IL the path crosses the Fox River. What easily
caught my eye was the UHF beam, only feet from the path, pointing
toward Pluto. There was a pretty big outdoor box, though I couldn't
see the water sensor. I don't recall the detail, but it had a sign and
was a water montoring setup beaming obviously to a satellite. The sign
had specifics and it may have been USGS, I just don't remember. I had
no pencil or I'd have Googled it back home. Shoulda' used the cell to
leave a memo @ home.</div>
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<div> The McHenry County Conservation District also
recently drilled a well on one vacant space near here and now there is
a solar panel, a box and another beam pointing at Pluto. The sign
there even has the satellite name - Geos - something or other and the
beam still has the frequency label.</div>
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<div> They're just rebuilding our Thompson road
bridge, but until recently it had a box and what looked like something
that could be dropped/cranked down to the water, and I think had a USGS
label. Without any visible sub-space radio, I often wondered how they
actuated it from Pluto.. (;-). Now I know.</div>
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<div>--<br>
73, Steve, </div>
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<div>--- On <b>Fri, 12/17/10, Lee Mushel <i><a
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href="http://us.mc386.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=herbert3@centurytel.net"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:herbert3@centurytel.net"><herbert3@centurytel.net></a></i></b>
wrote:<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Gentlemen,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I find this to be
a very interesting topic. You see, next spring I might get a phone
call from the National Weather Service and then I take the key and
drive to the river gauge, open the padlock, lower the "sensor" and read
the value, then restore everything and drive to the next gauge and then
the next. This may take 45 minutes. Then I email NWS my report---or
I could radio it to them but the email is preferred because it provides
a record that is easily handled. Now, since there is that padlock to
be considered I hope that any plans would include provisions for
security---especially if I am paying for this!</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">But I must warn
you that a suggestion by me that realtime water/flood photos be
"radioed" by ham radio to the hydrologist was met with absolutely no
enthusiasm. Acceptance of new ideas, even though they have merit, can
be difficult!</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">73</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Lee K9WRU</font></div>
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Original Message ----- </div>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
title="jim@riverridge-wi.net"
href="http://us.mc386.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=jim@riverridge-wi.net"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jim Tolbert</a> </div>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" title="aprssig@tapr.org"
href="http://us.mc386.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=aprssig@tapr.org"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TAPR APRS Mailing List</a> </div>
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Friday, December 17, 2010 6:29 AM</div>
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Re: [aprssig] River Gauging APRS setup</div>
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On 12/17/2010 5:30 AM, Wes Johnston, AI4PX wrote:
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<div>I just searched my email archives and this
is what I found. Link doesn't work. I do remember this thing though,
it was in a PVC pipe and shot an ultrasonic transducer down the pipe to
measure the distance to the water surface. I think the guy that made
it was in Florida.... but not sure.</div>
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Wes<br>
---<br>
God help those who do not help themselves.<br>
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class="yiv204931364yiv2127204921gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at
23:54, Daron Wilson <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://us.mc386.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=daron@wilson.org"
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class="yiv204931364yiv2127204921gmail_quote">Somewhere I've seen plans
for a simple river gauge setup with APRS, seems to<br>
me it was a micro power transmitter, the thing ran on several 6v lantern<br>
batteries, PVC conduit into the river for the sensing portion and an
antenna<br>
on top of the PVC. I can't find it, does anyone remember this and have
the<br>
link or info on this?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Daron N7HQR<br>
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