What a lucky shot! 
Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 09:15 PM
We got into a golf ball plus size hail core on 6-15 on hwy 400 near Wichita, KS. The hail cracked my windshield and broke apart my usglobalsat GPS. The GPS continued to work for 9 more hours FULL of water finally failing while chasing a bow echo with 60mph winds and torrential rainfall. The next afternoon I discovered the GPS was smashed and took it off the roof and dumped the water out! I took the cover off and didn’t see any signs of damage to the chipset or antenna. I put the unit in some silica gel for about two hours to dry it out. Then I put it back together and presto! It works like the day I bought it.

I give the US Global Sat BU-353/355 two thumbs up! And it’s cheap too!
Pick one up at www.usglobalsat.com



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Incredible tornado intercept 
Thursday, June 11, 2009, 03:43 PM
Incredible tornado intercept in SW MO near Harwood We where within 100yards of a tornado. I will post more video and pics later.




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The new RF Tornado Probe or RFTP 1.0 
Friday, June 5, 2009, 05:29 PM
Here it is after talking about it for a year or so. This probe is a different then any of the ones I have seen in the field up to this point in that It sends data and video back to the car via radio link.

Here is a list of instruments the probe is equipped with.

1. Viasala radiosonde 401 MHz.
2. 2.4GHz video transmitter and camera.
3. Go Pro video camera.
4. Dual 12ah lead acid batteries.
5. Warning light.
6. GPS Location system 144 MHz APRS.
7. Marshal 216 MHz homing transmitter.


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5-13-2009 Rain wrapped mess! 
Friday, May 22, 2009, 01:11 AM
We had a nice chase in Southeast Kansas near Bronson we got very close to a rain wrapped tornado which we knew by radar and keeping and eye on the wind direction that it was not going to hit us. Just before the encounter with the rain wrapped tornado we saw a nice funnel near Kincaid, KS.


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Uniden Bearcat BCD 996T 
Sunday, May 3, 2009, 09:47 PM
I picked up a bearcat BCD 996T about a month ago now and I have to say A+!! It combined with Radio Reference’s online database has made it one of the best tools for chasing that I have ever had. It takes just minuets to program even 100+ site APCO25 trunking systems using the online db from radiorefference.com. For example I used the BCD 996T during the Enid, OK tornado to listen to the Enid DPS trunking system and I knew where the touchdown was in real time!!! Something you just couldn’t have got in that county with a conventional scanner. The weather alert function works nicely mobile all I have uses so far is just tone alert I haven’t bothered with the SAME functions as I have been mobile. I really think the BCD 996T is worth the cash $495 for someone that’s up on radio and knows what they are getting.


Tyler.

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