The Storm Patrol

Hurricane Earl passed the outer banks last night without major damage, NC really dodged a bullet

Nantucket is next in line but the storm is much weaker then it once was.

Click here to read the latest forecast for Hurricane Earl

Earl’s eye is getting HUGE looking at the radar image from Morehead City, NC

NOT LIVE!

Click here to see current forecast from NHC / TPC

Jordan was on this tornado warned storm in Jasper County, MO 2010-09-02

Jordan took this video from near Jasper, MO looking SW.

The SPC has issued Mesoscale Discussion 1781 for my target area in NC OK and SE KS.

Click to read text and see updated products from SPC

Hurricane Earl is not turning as much as expected and may clip the outer banks of North Carolina.

Following image from NHC / TPC

The following picture is from US Navy Fleet Meteorology Center

Level2 Radar Image as of 1902Z 9 – 2 DOES NOT UPDATE.

I will be chasing a slight risk today in SE KS into NC and NE OK.  Stay tuned to this site or Twitter / Facebook for updates.

The SPC has forecast a slight risk today for much of the Central and Southern plains. Here is a link to the SPC to check for updates and possiable watches.

Tyler.

Hurricane Earl is getting closer to the eastern seaboard the latest NHC is showing Earl missing the US by 100miles or so but NC and VA are still in the error cone.

Here are some good hurricane data links.

National Hurricane Center

CIMMS Tropical Cyclones

FNMOC Satellite Data Tropical Cyclone Page

We are going to be giving a presentation about the UAV this Saturday August 28th in Joplin, MO at the Joplin Amateur Radio Club Hamfest. The presentation will at 11:00am in the Arkansas Room of the John Q. Hammon’s Trade Center. Here is a link to the JARC with a map to the convention center. We hope to see you there.

Here is the map from the JARC site.

Tyler.

I built a 900MHz Quagi antenna last night for the telemetry / command to and from the UAV. Obviously this will be the ground antenna on a tracker to so automatically points towards the UAV. I have a 2 channel microwave rotary joint I’m going to use for the tracker to that it can turn 360 deg.

Here is a link the design for the Quagi

Here are some pictures of the dual channel or path rotary joint. Military surplus good stuff!

Well I got the 2.4GHz wireless cam mounted on the UAV. Here are some pics. Also I put a microstrip antenna on the plane for 72MHz RX.
Here are some pics.