Hello to all….

The following was sent out to the NWS Taunton County Warning Area SKYWARN email list and an abridged version has been sent via the VoIPWXNet/VoIP-WX email lists. Generic details on the NOAA P3 Hurricane Hunter Plane Tour can be seen at the following link:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2007/s2843.htm

Below are particulars on Amateur Radio activities for this event for the plane’s first stop at Quonset State Airport in North Kingstown, RI:

The P3 Hurricane Hunter Aircraft will be at Quonset State Airport in North Kingstown, RI. The tour will be open to the public from 3-6 PM. Amateur Radio Operators from the Taunton Amateur Radio Group, ARES, SKYWARN, MARS and SATERN will be present with a special event station and assisting with event communications and logistics on behalf of the National Weather Service in Taunton.

We will be attempting to make contact with the National Hurricane Center Amateur Radio station, WX4NHC in Miami Florida via HF and Voice Over IP from 130-430 PM EDT/1730-2030 UTC. The following frequencies will be utilized for HF for contacting WX4NHC:

Primary HF=14.325 MHz USB (Propagation Dependent)
Backup HF #1=7.268 MHz LSB (Propagation Dependent)
Backup HF #2=21.325 MHz USB (Propagation Dependent)

On VoIP, we will be utilizing the EchoLink *NEW-ENG* Node: 9123/IRLP 9123 or the New England Network/Reflector system.

Below is the generic press release posted to the SKYWARN email list several weeks ago:

The Public Information Statement on the Hurricane Awareness Tour with the P3 Hurricane Hunter Aircraft was posted by NWS Taunton on Thursday March 29th, 2007. Earlier in the week a web-site on the tour was also posted via the SKYWARN Newsletter. The link to the Hurricane Awareness Tour web site is listed below:

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/box/announcement/HAT07WebRelease.htm

Respectfully Submitted,

Robert Macedo (KD1CY)
ARES SKYWARN Coordinator
Eastern Massachusetts ARES Section Emergency Coordinator
Pager #: (508) 354-3142
Home Phone #: (508) 994-1875 (After 6 PM)
Home/Data #: (508) 997-4503 (After 6 PM)
Work Phone #: 1-800-445-2588 Ext.: 72929 (8 AM-5 PM)
Email Address: rmacedo@rcn.com
http://users.rcn.com/rmacedo
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Hello to all….

The Hurricane Hunter Aircraft Caribbean Tour was announced on NOAA’s web site earlier this week. The tour will be going through Mexico, Grand Cayman Island, Dominican Republic, St. Croix and Puerto Rico. A posting to the press release and schedule of where the plane will be each day next week can be seen at the following link:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2007/s2833.htm

The US East Coast Hurricane Tour will be Monday April 30th-Friday May 4th, 2007. The tour’s first stop will be at Quonset State Airport in North Kingstown, RI and a large Amateur Radio component is planned for the plane tour when it arrives in Rhode Island. Further details on the East Coast Hurricane Tour will be posted in the next week or two.

Thanks to all for their continued support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!

73,Rob-KD1CY.
Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net
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Hello to all….

Dr. Gray’s revised Hurricane Outlook was posted early last week as discussed on the VoIPWXNet email reflector and his forecast increases the number of named systems. His reasoning for increasing the number of named systems is due to favorable Atlantic ocean conditions and El Nino’s dissipation into a more favorable La Nina pattern in the Pacific which allows for more tropical systems to form in the Atlantic. His forecast can be seen at the following link:

http://typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu/forecasts/2007/april2007/

Dr. Gray’s next forecast update will be posted on Thursday May 31st, 2007. NOAA will issue its Hurricane Outlook in the May timeframe.

73,Rob-KD1CY.
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Hello to all….

Join us for this week’s VoIP Hurricane Net as Danny Musten-KD4RAA, IRLP Net Manager and partner with John Van Pelt-K4JVP in the StormStudy program will be with us to conduct a debriefing of the National Hurricane Conference. This will be an opportunity to hear from Danny on what he saw at the conference and discuss his experience there.

We will conduct the session like we did with Mike “Sparky” Leger-N1YLQ where we’ll have Danny give a general debrief, ask him a set of questions and then open the net to questions from those checked into the net. During the check-in round, we will just get call-signs and not take weather reports to save time with the check-in portion of the net as we’ve done for past presentations.

Thanks to all for their continued support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!

73,Rob-KD1CY.
Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net
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Hello to all….

The National Hurricane Conference will be held this week April 2nd-April 6th, 2007 at the Hilton Hotel Riverside in New Orleans, Louisiana. Amateur Radio will be well represented with National Hurricane Center Amateur Radio
Coordinator, John McHugh-K4AG, former Hurricane Watch Net Manager, Mike Pilgrim-K5MP and ARRL Field Services Director, Steve Ewald-WV1X, chairing an Amateur Radio Disaster Communications Workshop from 1:30-5 PM on Tuesday April 3rd, 2007. Many other training programs and workshops on hurricanes, preparedness, meterology of hurricanes and engineering of buildings and structures to withstand hurricanes will be done throughout the conference.

In addition, Danny Musten-KD4RAA, IRLP Reflector 9219 co-owner and IRLP Net Manager for the VoIP Hurricane Net along with John Van Pelt-K4JVP will be at the Conference as their stormstudy program has entered a new relationship with Energizer. They will be at the workshop in the Energeizer booth which will be one of many booths from many vendors, non-profit organizations and government entities that will be at the conference. Danny intends to provide information on the conference at a future VoIP Hurricane Net weekly net session. The net meets every Saturday Evening at 0000 UTC/8 PM EDT.

The web site for this event can be seen at the following link:

Homepage

Thanks to all for their continued support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!

73,Rob-KD1CY.
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