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Information about Weather Radio’s

davehahn — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:56:24 +0000

There are 2 ways to limit the alerts that go off on a weather radio.

1. SAME codes = limit to 1 or several counties.
(Johnson Cnty KS code is 020091 – find codes at weather.gov)

2. Alert type Override = Tornado watch, Tornado Warning, Flood Watch, etc.

Two radios that let you program in both Alert Type Overrides and SAME (County FIPS) codes are:

Radioshack 12-521

Midland WR-300

GOOD PRICE WR-300: Amazon
GOOD PRICE WR-300: Radio Shack

There are dozens of other radios that support SAME but don’t allow for limiting the alert types. Amazon, Radio Shack, Pricechopper all carry Midland Radios: I’d recommend the Midland WR-100, WR-120, or HH54VP2 – all of these can be limited to just Johnson County with S.A.M.E but can’t be limited to not go off for every “Severe Thunderstorm Watch” or “Flash Flood Watch” like the other radios can.

I decided I only want to be awakened for a Tornado warning, which is why I bought a Radio Shack 12-521 for my house.

Here are the types of alerts that can be disabled/enabled in the 12-521 and the WR-300 radios. Asterisks indicate permanently enabled alerts that cannot be disabled.

All about Dave… Ramsey that is

davehahn — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:34:36 +0000

My wife and I are on a quest – a quest to eliminate every bit of our debt. We each had been independently following Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University plan before we met, and continued to follow it after we got married – but this year, 2010, we decided to get so gazelle intense that we could eliminate our debt by the end of the year. One way we hope to accomplish that is by offering a great deal on our weddings, hoping to book every weekend. If we can book wedding photography every weekend, we will easily be out of debt this year. So brides will get a crazy bargain on photography, and we will be out of debt – a WIN/WIN.

*Package price is $1,000 – facebook/twitter discounts = $650.

Add audio player to your blog

davehahn — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:39:05 +0000

The audio player I am using is the free Audio Player Wordpress plugin flash mp3 player from 1pixelout.

It’s really easy to install on your website – and you can find a great tutorial about using it on non wordpress pages over at macloo’s site.

Wall Outlets with 2 USB ports

davehahn — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:34:19 +0000

How many devices do we have that charge over the USB cord?
Now FastMac has a Wall Outlet with built in USB ports for $10 – how cool is that?!

Electrical wall recepticle with USB built in

♫♪♫♪ His Name is My Name Too! ♪♫♪♫

davehahn — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:27:25 +0000

Do you remember the song “John Jacob Jingle Himer Schmidt” from your childhood? I can’t help but think about that song when I went to register www.davehahn.com and found out it was already taken. I had to settle on davehahn.info instead – but it was interesting to look at all the other Dave Hahns that are listed on this guys page.

Audio taken from freekidsmusic.com Interested in how I embedded the audio player in this blog post? Here’s a tutorial on how to do it.

Target.com Jews link is faked

davehahn — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:34:32 +0000

Perhaps you have seen a link on target.com floating around the internet/twitter/facebook that has some derogatory comments about Jews in the url.

This is not really on Target’s website. They have programmed their website to where anything will work in that spot and somebody thought it would be funny to put something awful there and spread it around the net. Please don’t blame Target for this. I called their customer relations department and reported the problem to them, so it will likely get fixed – but I’m hoping that people realize this has nothing to do with Target. I also submitted this information to snopes.

UPDATE: Target has taken care of the original link that was circulating the internet – however the url still supports dynamic rewrites so people can type whatever they want in that area of the url.

nilmdts

davehahn — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:13:11 +0000

Tuesday night Aubree and I went over to our friend Christina’s house to talk photography. She is a nurse that purchased a new Nikon DSLR and is going to take pictures for Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep, an organization of photographers that donates their time to give mothers memories of their babies that don’t make it. Watch the video on youtube below. It’s an amazing ministry to these moms, and the more I learn about the organization, the more I would like to help – although it looks like it would take a toll on the emotions. Check it out and share your thoughts!

Baptisms at Gateway Church

davehahn — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:26:18 +0000

Last Sunday we had the privilege of photographing the baptisms at Gateway Bible Church in Blue Springs, MO. Aubree and I finished preparing the photos today so that each person that was baptized last Sunday will receive an 8×10 that looks like the image below. It’s such a blessing to use our skills as photographers for our local church! Photography is yet another way we can worship God :~)

Photographers document baptisms in Blue Springs Missouri