Re: [IRCA] Slow mail and No Hawaii

[xraydelta1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sean Kelly)]

>> Thailand, Norway, Germany, but no Hawaii.  If the storm is near Hawaii, 
>> does that mean it's going to be the "Pineapple Express"?

Hello club memebers, I'm Sean Kelly, KK4TS/7 and I have just joined the
group. The pineapple express is a condition where warm, moist air travels
in the jet stream from Hawaii (or maybe just near there) to where we are in
the continental United States. Here in Seattle, the consequences are lots
of rain that causes flooding near our rivers - people's houses washed away
and the rivers changing course.

>> For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org

If this website doesn't have a list of abbreviations, is there somewhere
else I can get them? (I ask because I don't have web access right now - not
till tomorrow).

I had an idea for reducing interference from AM stations. It was to
construct a box with aluminum foil on all sides except the top, then place
the radio in the box with the top of the box pointed towards the station
you want to receive. But it didn't work - the box cut out all reception.
Does anybody have any ideas on why that didn't work and how to null out
interfering stations from three different directions at once (so my Mom can
listen to her talk radio program in the morning)? Next attempt is to screen
out the skywave so it doesn't interfere with the ground wave by just
putting foil on top of a box and the radio under it.

I had an odd thing happen the last two nights. I was listening to a station
on 1530 KHz out of Sacramento (I'm in Seattle) and the peak was when the
antenna was oriented for reception to the east and west, instead of the
direction that the station was (south east south). A mystery.

Thanks in advance for any answers,
Sean, who is getting the impression that just having a Superradio II
doesn't quite cut it on this group :)

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