VoIP Hurricane Net Activation Announcement – Hurricane Bill

Hello to all..

..VoIP Hurricane Net to activate formally at 4 AM EDT Sunday August 23rd for Hurricane Bill’s Impact on Nova Scotia and Newfoundland Canada. Cape Cod and Nantucket Island and possibly Martha’s Vineyard are likely to experience Tropical Storm force conditions and WX1BOX-NWS Taunton Operations will be active on the system to monitor this threat during the late night and overnight hours..
..The *NEW-ENG* Echolink Conference Node: 9123/IRLP Reflector 9123 system will be cross-linked to the *WX_TALK* Echolink Conference Node: 7203/IRLP 9219 system for the duration of this event..
…WX4NHC Operations Will Activate Around 8-9 AM EDT Sunday August 23rd for Hurricane Bill’s Impact on Nova Scotia and Newfoundland Canada..
..Call-Up Net for Canadian Stations to take place on the Saturday Evening VoIP Hurricane Prep Net at 8 PM ET Saturday/0000 UTC Sunday followed by VoIP Hurricane Prep Net informal operations coordinated with WX1BOX-NWS Taunton on Southeast New England Impact..

Hurricane Bill will move about 150 nautical miles southeast of Nantucket Island during the late evening hours Saturday and early morning hours Sunday and then will move swiftly Northeastward into Nova Scotia Canada with the potential for hurricane force winds on Nova Scotia and tropical storm force winds likely in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. The VoIP Hurricane Net will do its call-up net as part of the weekly VoIP Hurricane Prep Net at 8 PM EDT and then activate informally overnight until formal activation around 4 AM ET Sunday August 23rd. Operations at WX4NHC will be active by 9 AM EDT.

We could use any relays and stations that can assist with reports from the Canadian Maritimes and Southeastern New England tonight into Sunday. Any Amateur Radio Operators with contacts in the affected area or can monitor and relay traffic heard on 40 and 80 Meters would be very helpful to our operations.

Hello to all..

..VoIP Hurricane Net to activate formally at 4 AM EDT Sunday August 23rd for Hurricane Bill’s Impact on Nova Scotia and Newfoundland Canada. Cape Cod and Nantucket Island and possibly Martha’s Vineyard are likely to experience Tropical Storm force conditions and WX1BOX-NWS Taunton Operations will be active on the system to monitor this threat during the late night and overnight hours..
..The *NEW-ENG* Echolink Conference Node: 9123/IRLP Reflector 9123 system will be cross-linked to the *WX_TALK* Echolink Conference Node: 7203/IRLP 9219 system for the duration of this event..
…WX4NHC Operations Will Activate Around 8-9 AM EDT Sunday August 23rd for Hurricane Bill’s Impact on Nova Scotia and Newfoundland Canada..
..Call-Up Net for Canadian Stations to take place on the Saturday Evening VoIP Hurricane Prep Net at 8 PM ET Saturday/0000 UTC Sunday followed by VoIP Hurricane Prep Net informal operations coordinated with WX1BOX-NWS Taunton on Southeast New England Impact..

Hurricane Bill will move about 150 nautical miles southeast of Nantucket Island during the late evening hours Saturday and early morning hours Sunday and then will move swiftly Northeastward into Nova Scotia Canada with the potential for hurricane force winds on Nova Scotia and tropical storm force winds likely in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. The VoIP Hurricane Net will do its call-up net as part of the weekly VoIP Hurricane Prep Net at 8 PM EDT and then activate informally overnight until formal activation around 4 AM ET Sunday August 23rd. Operations at WX4NHC will be active by 9 AM EDT.

We could use any relays and stations that can assist with reports from the Canadian Maritimes and Southeastern New England tonight into Sunday. Any Amateur Radio Operators with contacts in the affected area or can monitor and relay traffic heard on 40 and 80 Meters would be very helpful to our operations.

For the latest advisory information including watches and warnings, you can go to the VoIPWXNet web site and click Atlantic Tropical Products and click on the advisory information for Bill under the Atlantic Tropical Products section. You can also gather the advisory information from the National Hurricane Center web site at the following link:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov

The reporting criteria and activation policy for our net during hurricane net activations can be found on our web site at http://www.voipwx.net

Listen Only IRLP/EchoLink capability include the following systems (We ask that listen-only folks please provide this capability and connect by formal activation time if possible):

IRLP:
Reflector 9508 Sydney Australia Reflector channel 8.
Reflector 9129 New England Reflector channel 9.

EchoLink:
*KC4QLP-C* Node: 290251
*VKEMCOMM* Node: 270177
*N5API* Node: 77433
*IRESC* Node: 278173
*N1TAI* Node: 269929

A streaming audio feed has been setup thanks to the assistance of David McAnally-WD5M. The links are listed below:
http://live.wx5fwd.net/
http://live.wx5fwd.net/voipwx.ogg.m3u
http://live.wx5fwd.net/voipwx.ogg.m3u

Bob Carter-KC4QLP has also setup an online stream for up to 32 listeners at the following link:
http://kc4qlp.dyndns.org:8082/

An EQSO listen-only feed is also available via KC4QLP-R.

Lu Vencl-KA4EPS has also set up streaming audio capability.
See links below:

http://colostreaming.com:8010/listen.pls
http://colostreaming.com:8088/listen.pls

Links to the WD5M streaming audio feeds have also been provided in the Main Menu of the VoIPWXNet web site.

Below is the typical activation announcement from WX4NHC Assistant Coordinator, Julio Ripoll-WD4R and WX4NHC Coordinator John McHugh-K4AG:

WX4NHC ANNOUNCEMENT – HURRICANE BILL OPERATIONS

WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio station at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, will be activating it’s HF and EchoLink/IRLP station on Sunday August 23rd, 2009 by 9 AM EDT (1300z).
PLEASE RELAY TO STATIONS IN THE AFFECTED AREAS.

We request all land based stations as well as ships at sea in the areas affected to send us weather data (measured or estimated) and damage reports.

If you are in the affected area and normally monitor on a local Net on VHF, 40 or 80 meters, we would appreciate your checking into the HWN NET or EchoLink/IRLP Net once per Hour to receive the latest Hurricane Advisories and to report your local conditions.

Please do not venture outside during the hurricane to gather weather data.

Your safety is the first priority.

There are many constantly changing atmospheric variables that affect the storm’s track and strength.

Please refer to the National Hurricane Center Advisories for official information. www.nhc.noaa.gov

WX4NHC will be monitoring the Hurricane Watch Net www.hwn.org on 14.325 MHz.

Secondary HF frequencies will be 7.268 MHz and 3.950 MHz +/- QRM, should we loose propagation on 20 meters.
EchoLink “WX-Talk” Conference Room and IRLP node 9219 will also be monitored. www.voipwx.net

WX4NHC will also monitor CWOP, APRS and MADIS/MESONET Automated weather stations in the affected area.

Surface Reports using our On-line Hurricane Report form will be monitored.

Amateur Weather Enthusiasts and ON-NHC Volunteers may report directly to WX4NHC on-line.

http://www.wx4nhc.org/WX-form1.html

ON-NHC Volunteers are both Ham Radio Operators and Non-Ham weather observers that use their own weather instruments to submit “Surface Reports” directly to NHC over the Internet via the WX4NHC on-line report form. These “Surface Reports” are very important as they give Hurricane Specialists at NHC a better idea of what is actually happening on the ground level during the storm.

The WX4NHC Group continues to expand its efforts to increase the quantity and quality of surface reports to include many different modes of reception and groups of people; including HF, VHF/UHF IRLP & EchoLink, VHF & HF APRS, CWOP NOAA Program and ON-NHC Weather Observers Network.
(see our web site for more information on these programs): www.wx4nhc.org

WX4NHC is very proud to have maintained an active Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center for the past 29 years.

We appreciate all of the volunteers who help with our efforts.
OUR MISSION: TO HELP SAVE LIVES.

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Julio Ripoll Architect WD4R
WX4NHC Amateur Radio Asst. Coordinator
www.wx4nhc.org
National Hurricane Center
www.nhc.noaa.gov
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73,Rob-KD1CY.
Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net

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