Hottest temperatures the Pacific Northwest has ever recorded are likely this weekend

So do I!

MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. let us hope the blazing temperature left water in the Pan Handle - God Bless You, Brother

MAJ Hugh Blanchard Well said!

MAJ Hugh Blanchard - Have you tried a SDR (Software Defined Radio) setup? I have one, but I need to put up an antenna. I live in an older mobile home with aluminum skin.

I once served in uniform as an Asst TRADOC System Manager for Ground IEW Systems. We built SIGINT and EW platforms for ground forces. And we wanted to use software-defined radios in some of those systems, but the technology was then in its infancy. Now they are a more pragmatic option than they were several years ago.

I worked on Microdyne's RCB2000 while it was still in Engineering, to take it into production. It was a dual SDR based Telemetry receiver that allowed predefined IF bandwidth and video bandpass selection. It created a 70 MHz IF output, for each receiver, for standard data recorders as well. It did digital combining for Diversity operation, and thee system could be remote controlled via RSS23, IEEE-488 or Ethernet. All in 7" of rack space. It hit the market in 2001.The operating frequency depended on the block downconverter at the front end. The tuner module output was an analog 70 MHz which was input was digitized from 50 to 90 MHz, and processed wit FIR filters. It was the first digital system on the market. My job was to correct the manufacturing problems, and to build test fixtures. That included updating our reflow soldering process for the finer pitch components, and dealing with the It department, to get an entire block of addresses, since the firmware and software were on the engineering server. They couldn't understand why just one address wasn't enough. Once in production, many receivers were connected to the network, so I implemented programming the final block, based on the last three digits of the serial number. The chances of having two with the same address online at the same time was exceedingly rare. when the blocks were 250 units.