{"id":3,"count":2,"description":"Here is a picture of most of the technical kit both Andy and myself will be using for safety, navigation and critical storm data. It looks like a huge bundle of cables and techy gadgets though I have acquired this collection over several years and you could chase with less if need be. Some old school vet chasers might go as far as to say; 'You just need your eye's and a bit of savy to chase'! I tend to differ with this notion. Of course we could all throw ourselves in at the deep end when chasing storms and just let fate decide if your going to bag the big wedge! Hmmm, But when you have saved your money all year and have just two weeks to make that moment happen you want every possible source of data available to give you that edge! This aside, the radar can help navigate your way out of dangerous situations where you might find yourself directly in line to a big tornado. So the choice is for the individual to decide!\r\n     I'm hoping Andy will be able to bring his laptop as back up. So I will need to get the GRL3 radar program up and running and give Andy a few pointers here. I currently have a navigation program 'Street Atlas 2010' with GPS installed. This is a great program which zooms in to street level with the accuracy which can actually show you changing lanes on the interstates. I've morphed a pair of car jumper leads to connect our power inverter directly to the car battery. This will avoid us from frying the lighter socket. Will be taking the 'baron system' as satellite radar back up but probably won't activate it unless we end up chasing regions that are full of network roaming holes. Have a good camera suction mount for the windscreen, together with camcorder with a wide angle lens and standard camera for still shots.","link":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/category\/preparation\/","name":"Preparation","slug":"preparation","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"http:\/\/gratch.co.uk\/chase2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}