Ken Howells's blog

Time-Lapse is Back

Ken Howells — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:45:36 -0500

The folks where the weather station lives changed from cable internet to DSL, and there was a hitch in the transition, so I went up there and found a subnet mask setting to change and got them back on the net.

The power supply to the Ultimeter 2100 weather base unit had gone out, somehow. Made a trip to Radio Shack in Crestline and got a replacement, which got the weather station back up. The anemometer readings still aren't getting to the base station, and it was too damp, cold, and windy to get up on the roof without a spotter.

Simba Weather Station

Ken Howells — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:47:19 -0600

After voting (With a paper ballot! My candidate might win this time!) I went to the Ball's house to see what I could do for the weather station. They weren't home, so I couldn't get to anything, but looking at the sensor mast I saw that one of the lower mounts had shifted around a bit, making the mast only appear to be bent. One of the anemometer cups is off and David found it on their deck. If the cup can't be snapped back on (they have to be snapped on when the unit is unpacked) I can replace the anemometer/wind vane with the old non-heated one. The heated one freezes up pretty readily, so no big deal.

Website Glitches / Image Size Fixed - Jan 08

Ken Howells — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:19:26 -0600

Our webhost applied some upgrades to the server last night, and our website naturally had a number of problems today. At first, only the weather pages were working, then the site was displaying properly but user logins were broken and the Oz Report Headlines weren't being fetched.

If you run into any odd/new website behaviors, please let me know.

Latest Glitch:
Fixed! Same Day! (1/17)

CSS Toy Drive 12/22/2007

Ken Howells — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:37:29 -0600

Set for Saturday, Dec 22nd, 2007 (click for details)

CSS 2008 Wall Calendar

Ken Howells — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:31:10 -0600

Dianne McKenzie and photographer Julie Haynes have been collecting a mixture of HG and PG photos over the last year for a CSS 2008 Calendar. Ken Scott, a member who works at Xerox has laid the calendar out and had 200 copies printed.

The calendar looks GREAT!
Lots of beautiful flying photos and fun photos of members and fly-in crowds.

$20 each. Mailing one within California costs $5, slightly more for multiple copies or out-of-state.

Sept. 15, 2007 - AJ Memorial Fly-In - Food and Raffle

Ken Howells — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 21:17:50 -0500

See event announcement

Events & Projects Added!

Ken Howells — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:42:22 -0500

I've added pages for the proposed HAM class and the two summer fly-ins to the Events section and the Events menu. There's also a new 'Projects' page and menu item.

All website members can edit or add to these pages, so if you have ideas, pertinent links, have at it. Posting and editing works much like forum posting does. Email if you have questions. Don't worry about messing things up. You won't break the site, and we can fix or rearrange as needed.

Table View on Weather Page Functional

Ken Howells — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:49:24 -0600

The controls for the tabular weather info listing in the weather page are once again functional, so you can change both the number of records displayed and the interval between displayed records. The page refreshes the table info once a minute (without reloading the page) so the latest info will always be shown. The data is also refreshed when you change the number of records or interval, or just push the 'set table' button (hidden until you click one of the boxes).

New Rules For Pilots Flying Elsinore (updated 8 Feb 07)

Ken Howells — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:45:49 -0600

See: Elsinore LZ Temporarily Closed - 23 Feb 07

(This was posted by Spike as a comment to a recent thread. I copied it here to make it more prominent)

EHGA has won a court order. The man has given us some rules listed below. Please don't jeopardize the site. Below listed simple note from EHGA lawyer. The rules are for the LZ. The defendants have been in the LZ confronting pilots to use against EHGA.. Thanks for helping. Spike

Mobile WX - 11/14/06 Update

Ken Howells — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:26:14 -0600

CSS Weather Info for Web-Enabled Mobile Phones:

http://www.crestlinesoaring.org/wx/

http://www.crestlinesoaring.org/webcam/

Also: Text 'CSSWIND' to 41411 for a short text-only weather report.

The code in the 'standard' weather and webcam pages now detects if you're using a mobile device and redirects you to the mobile versions. Thanks to Daniel Pifko, President and self-described 'resident geek' of the Fellow Feathers flying club in Fort Funston, CA (http://flyfunston.org/) for filling me in on how to do the redirect!