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The following is from the ARRL Letter Article and highlights the National Hurricane Conference set for April. Once again, the VoIP Hurricane Net along with WX4NHC Operations will be presented at the conference. Below is the ARRL Letter Article:

==> NATIONAL HURRICANE CONFERENCE SET FOR APRIL

The 30th Annual National Hurricane Conference http://www.hurricanemeeting.com begins on March 31, running through April 4 at the Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando, Florida. This annual event brings together many disciplines in the Emergency Management field to address tropical events that impact the United States.

Once again, Amateur Radio is being highlighted on Tuesday, April 1 in a 4.5 hour training session. ARRL Emergency Preparedness and Response Manager Dennis Dura, K2DCD, is the Chairman of the Amateur Radio Committee of the NHC, and has put together what he calls “a worthwhile learning experience for the attendees.”

Leading off the afternoon will be a presentation on Amateur Radio and the National Hurricane Center (NHC) Station WX4NHC http://www.fiu.edu/orgs/w4ehw by John McHugh, K4AG, and Julio Ripoll, WD4R, the Amateur Radio Coordinators at the NHC http://www.nhc.noaa.gov . The VoIP Hurricane Net http://www.voipwx.net will then be highlighted in a presentation by Rob Macedo, KD1CY, Director of Operations.

The final formal presentation of the afternoon will be the subject of Macedo’s and Dura’s “Emergency Management’s use of Amateur Radio for Situational Awareness and Disaster Intelligence.” This discussion is focused on the Emergency Managers and their staff to give them clear concepts to include Amateur Radio in their operational plans beyond the more traditional uses of emergency traffic handling. As time permits, the afternoon will conclude with an open forum on current issues in Amateur Radio’s response to tropical events.

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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The VoIP Hurricane Net Newsletter for January-March 2008 is now available. Rich Long-KF6BKA, Newsletter Editor, has worked hard to put together this newsletter so please take a look at it. Rich had some significant work commitments which abated this month and allowed him to put together this newsletter for the January-March 2008 time period. See link below:

January-March 2008 VoIP Hurricane Net Newsletter

An archive of all prior newsletters is now available on the VoIPWXNet web site as well. From the Main Menu, click the VoIP Hurricane Net Newsletter Archive and you will find past newsletters since the newsletter was started in September 2007.

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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The Saturday March 1st VoIP Hurricane Net Presentation on Weather Spotting During Hurricanes and how folks can help with spotting during hurricanes even if they are from out of the hurricane zone has been archived to the web site and this includes a recording from the Saturday Evening Net. The recording of the net is about 3 Megabytes in size in MP format and the Power Point presentation file is 20 Megabytes in size so please download the presentation and recording off the web site for best results in reviewing the presentation. Links to the presentation and the recording are listed below:

March 2008 VoIP Hurricane Net Presentation on Weather Spotting During Hurricanes

March 2008 Hurricane Weather Spotting Presentation Recording

The presentations have also been put on the VoIPWXNet web site off of the Main Menu via the VoIP WX Net Presentations Archive link. We hope many folks who could not hear the net live will listen to the recording and view the presentation particularly from the coastal areas of the East Coast of the United States as well as the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, the Pacific and other locations affected by hurricanes. 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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