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General Discussion / Re: How many weather radios do you own?
« on: February 07, 2012, 09:28:47 PM »
Right - NOAA doesn't make the radios. 
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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion
« on: February 07, 2012, 08:53:55 PM »
Actually, I think it's an excellent idea that the NWS is participating in the issuance of Amber alerts. The more outlets that can be reached, the better the chances of the abduction ending sooner and with a positive outcome.
How people react to them is one thing, but think about it... if your child were missing, wouldn't you want every media outlet in the whole area to be reporting about it?
How people react to them is one thing, but think about it... if your child were missing, wouldn't you want every media outlet in the whole area to be reporting about it?
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General Discussion / Re: How many weather radios do you own?
« on: February 06, 2012, 12:04:41 AM »I own two actual weather radios, but if you wanna get technical, my all-band scanner can do weather radio frequencies.
I used to have one of those scanners a long time ago. (One of those 1980s-era models that was the size of a small house.) The most interesting listening was when the school buses were running and the drivers had to talk to dispatch about something.
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General Discussion / How many weather radios do you own?
« on: February 05, 2012, 11:09:18 PM »
How many weather radios do you own? I own three: Midland WR-120, Midland WR-100, and an old Midland 74-109.
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General Discussion / Re: WSB-TV Weather Icons
« on: February 05, 2012, 01:48:31 PM »Second of all, I don't see why you all would actually be willing to pay for icons like this, when you can get plenty of others for free.
Well said.
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General Discussion / Re: WSB-TV Weather Icons
« on: February 05, 2012, 11:43:49 AM »Gee, those icons cost more than I thought.
How much they want?
Unless you run your own TV station, I'm pretty sure they're out of your price range. They won't just sell you icons; they'll sell you an entire package of products that contain those icons.
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TWC Today News / Re: Site News
« on: February 02, 2012, 01:34:09 AM »
I'm glad you're back. I was starting to suffer from withdrawal symptoms. 
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General Discussion / Re: Bowling
« on: January 31, 2012, 11:49:59 PM »
I went bowling (candlepin) once... probably a little more than 20 years ago. I didn't particularly enjoy it.
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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / Daytona Beach IS2 metro maps
« on: January 30, 2012, 09:40:28 PM »
I'd like to make a request about the metro maps on the Intellistar 2 in Daytona Beach (#033004).
The metro maps (for current conditions and forecasts) have the east coast of Florida in the middle of the screen, meaning that the whole right half of the screen is just blue ocean. If the map was moved a little further to the west, we'd be able to see more of central Florida, add more cities to the map, and not have so much wasted space. While this might include more territory that isn't necessarily covered by this Star, I think it would make sense to have more land, and, therefore, more information, present on the screen, instead of having so much ocean there.
Thank you.
(This request was approved by phw115wvwx.)
The metro maps (for current conditions and forecasts) have the east coast of Florida in the middle of the screen, meaning that the whole right half of the screen is just blue ocean. If the map was moved a little further to the west, we'd be able to see more of central Florida, add more cities to the map, and not have so much wasted space. While this might include more territory that isn't necessarily covered by this Star, I think it would make sense to have more land, and, therefore, more information, present on the screen, instead of having so much ocean there.
Thank you.
(This request was approved by phw115wvwx.)
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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: HD in Daytona Beach!!
« on: January 29, 2012, 11:01:49 PM »Damn, is everyone gonna get the IS2 before I do? lolYou'll probably get it before me
I don't know, at the rate this is going I think you'll get it first.
It's amazing to me that you live in Atlanta, and yet the IS2 hasn't been installed in your area yet. Once upon a time, Atlanta was the first to get the updates simply because The Weather Channel is located there.
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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: HD in Daytona Beach!!
« on: January 29, 2012, 11:00:03 PM »Damn, is everyone gonna get the IS2 before I do? lol
Hey, I had plenty long to wait.
In Massachusetts I was struck by the Comcast curse, meaning I had HD but no Intellistar 2. I then had to wait six months after moving to Florida to even get the HD feed at all, and I was honestly extremely surprised to see that the Intellistar 2 was installed down here.I was happy when I saw on my cable box that the HD channel was available, and, one second later, darn near ecstatic to see a local LDL in place of the national scrolling list of cities.
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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: HD in Daytona Beach!!
« on: January 29, 2012, 10:58:14 PM »Nice! Any way you can get a clip?
Only with my cell phone, and since I'm not at all a fan of such recordings, I doubt I'm going to do it that way.
That said, I DID consider it last night, using picture-in-picture to show the differences between SD and HD in real time. However, because of the technical differences between SD and HD, it wasn't really "real time," since the HD feed lags by a couple of seconds behind SD. It was getting annoying, so I decided not to do it.
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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion
« on: January 29, 2012, 10:54:05 PM »Smoke on the DirecTV LF
That's probably a rarity! Pity the icon has that dark blue line drawn around it.
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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion
« on: January 29, 2012, 10:53:14 PM »I liked the ORIGINAL Intellistar (not XL) icons, from 2007.
They look very good in HD, but they were replaced in SD because they just weren't clear enough. Precipitation, in my experience, often looked like a hazy grey blob with smaller blobs falling from the clouds. On a 19" TV I honestly had a hard time telling whether the precipitation was rain, snow, or a mix, and, living in Massachusetts, that made quite a difference. The smaller the icons got, the harder it was to tell just what was falling.
Yes, they're very realistic, but the clarity in SD just wasn't there, which is why they were replaced. Honestly, I don't see anything wrong with the current SD graphics. They're not as realistic, but they're very clear, and that's what's essential in communication.
That said, now that I have access to the Intellistar 2, the realistic icons look fantastic, and there's no confusion about what kind of precipitation is being shown.
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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: HD in Daytona Beach!!
« on: January 28, 2012, 11:02:04 PM »
I'd think so. It's on channel 1225 here, but I don't know how similar your lineup is to ours. The channel isn't yet available on the program guide, nor by using the channel up/down buttons; it must be entered directly.
If you can't find it, do what I did: press the blue "B" button on the remote control and search for any of TWC's programs. If you have the HD feed now, you'll see each program airing listed twice: one for the SD feed and one for the HD feed.
If you can't find it, do what I did: press the blue "B" button on the remote control and search for any of TWC's programs. If you have the HD feed now, you'll see each program airing listed twice: one for the SD feed and one for the HD feed.