[IRCA] Charley-One Down

[Mike Hardester <DX4EVR@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

        One down and maybe a few to go.

        First, Ron, glad to hear you and your family made it through 
Charley okay. Charlie Taylor, you okay? Fortunately, the storm lost steam 
before it hit land. Charley?s Eastern eye wall passed over us, a couple of 
tornados touched down to our west, and plenty of rain - 6-8 inches. Max 
winds at 66 mph, but fortunately, only broken branches were the result 
here.  Power has been on and off since yesterday, and rain / lightening 
continued until a while ago.

        Local (Jacksonville) stations were a surprise. FM stations were on 
and providing better information than the AM stations - that is a complete 
turn-around from past storms.

        910-WSRP (Spanish language) had an excellent carrier, but no 
audio; 1120-WSME (Camp Lejeune) was off; 1240-WJNC which has, in the past, 
been the best provider of information, was off; and 1290-WJCV was on with 
its normal gospel programming. Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base has two (2) 
base information stations (HAR, if you will) that operate on 530 and/or 
1610 kHz ? not on. Today, 8/15, all are back on seemingly on RS, except for 
Camp Lejeune.

        Wonder if local TIS / HAR stations were able to stay on/help in 
Florida?

        One of WSRP's goals was to be available to help the 
Spanish-language population know what was going on when an 
emergency/hurricane/etc occurred....didn't work this time. Having worked 
with  Hispanics, I'm going to try and find out what happened. I think that 
not knowing what is going on can be worse than knowing. Just my take.

        My wife was in Raleigh helping her mother recover from surgery, so 
it was just me and the "livestock." A portable TV was enough to keep in 
touch with what was going on. Things seem to be returning to normal, and 
once again, we were fortunate!

        Very 73 and Best of DX de Mike





At 03:55 PM 8/15/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> Thanks, Tim.
> 80 mile an hour winds sustained was al I got along with the rain. Living 
> in a concrete block home (stucco exterior) and ceramic tile roof certainly 
> helps to a degree.
> In fact, when the rain wasn't blown into my front window, I didn't even 
> know of the wind. The insulation works pretty good for sound as well, 
> apparently. Sandy and I were really surprised. We recently built this 
> house and am pleased with it to date.
> The only pain is pumping the extra rain water out of the pool (to the 
> "nth" power). The kids aren't doing enough cannonballs.
> The local LPFM, WFBO-LP 93.3 had it's antenna blown over at the beach with 
> the last of the stronger gusts and got back on about 12 hours later. 
> Electricity for us was out for 19 hours. Everything in the fridge held. 
> 5,000 more customers in our city still are waiting for power.  I haven't 
> noticed any broadcasters off the air aside from WFBO-LP our very, very 
> deep playlist oldies station. Once they got the engineering issues taken 
> care of and the programming computers/systems on, they started passing 
> community information, the only station here in Flagler County, the 
> non-comms were carrier only.
> Listened to 1150 WNDB Daytona Beach, FL. Thier phone service was out and 
> was using studio/transmitter generators, and simulcasting on thier other 
> Black Crow stations (93.1, 95.7, 103.3) and the normal simulcast 1490 WNDA 
> Deland, FL.  WOKV 690 had saturday morning news blocks. I didn't catch the 
> advertised simulcast with sister oldies WKQL 96.9 "To reach those outside 
> of our night pattern".  WOCL 105.9 Deland - Orlando, FL simulcasted a 
> television station (Active Rock formatted). Much use of the EAS system was 
> evident on many stations.
> Sound the all clear horn. Regard all further alarms.
> Ron Gitschier
> Palm Coast, FL
>
>
> Tim Davisson writes:
> > We certainly all hope and pray for the safety of Ron and his family and
> > others in Central/& Northern Florida and those in line of this storm.
>
> ===============================================
> The National Radio Club, Inc.
> http://www.nrcdxas.org



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