VoIP Hurricane Net to Activate for Hurricane Earl and its Closest Pass to the Mid Atlantic Coast at 4 PM ET Thursday 9/2/10
Hello to all..
..VoIP Hurricane Net to activate formally at 4 PM EDT/2000 UTC Thursday September 2nd, 2010 for Impact of Hurricane Earl over Eastern North Carolina, Outer Banks of North Carolina, Eastern Virginia and the Delmarva peninsula. Activation is expected to last through early Friday Morning potentially with another activation possible over the New England states Friday Afternoon through Saturday Morning. Activation will take place on the *WX_TALK* Echolink Conference Node: 7203/IRLP 9219 system for the duration of this event..
…WX4NHC Operations Will Also Activate at 4 PM EDT/2000 UTC for Hurricane Earl’s Impact on the Eastern North Carolina, Outer Banks of North Carolina, Eastern Virginia and the Delmarva peninsula…
Hurricane Earl is an extremely powerful Category IV hurricane and is expected to stay a major hurricane as it makes a close pass within 125 miles of the Eastern Virginia, Eastern North Carolina, Delmarva peninsula region. The VoIP Hurricane Net will activate at 4 PM EDT/2000 UTC looking for surface reports from stations in the affected area of Hurricane Earl or from Amateur Radio Operators who have contact with the affected area of Hurricane Earl through any relays or people they know in the area. In addition, an activation of the net could occur again on Friday Afternoon and Evening as Earl makes another closs pass to portions of Southeast New England.
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 Hurricane Earl under the Atlantic Tropical Products section. You can also gather the advisory information from the National Hurricane Center web site at the following link:
Hello to all..
..VoIP Hurricane Net to activate formally at 4 PM EDT/2000 UTC Thursday September 2nd, 2010 for Impact of Hurricane Earl over Eastern North Carolina, Outer Banks of North Carolina, Eastern Virginia and the Delmarva peninsula. Activation is expected to last through early Friday Morning potentially with another activation possible over the New England states Friday Afternoon through Saturday Morning. Activation will take place on the *WX_TALK* Echolink Conference Node: 7203/IRLP 9219 system for the duration of this event..
…WX4NHC Operations Will Also Activate at 4 PM EDT/2000 UTC for Hurricane Earl’s Impact on the Eastern North Carolina, Outer Banks of North Carolina, Eastern Virginia and the Delmarva peninsula…
Hurricane Earl is an extremely powerful Category IV hurricane and is expected to stay a major hurricane as it makes a close pass within 125 miles of the Eastern Virginia, Eastern North Carolina, Delmarva peninsula region. The VoIP Hurricane Net will activate at 4 PM EDT/2000 UTC looking for surface reports from stations in the affected area of Hurricane Earl or from Amateur Radio Operators who have contact with the affected area of Hurricane Earl through any relays or people they know in the area. In addition, an activation of the net could occur again on Friday Afternoon and Evening as Earl makes another closs pass to portions of Southeast New England.
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 Hurricane Earl under the Atlantic Tropical Products section. You can also gather the advisory information from the National Hurricane Center web site at the following link:
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 and any reports received via relays or directly from Amateurs in the path of Hurricane Earl would be much appreciated.
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 OPERATIONS ANNOUNCEMENT – HURRICANE EARL
See our web site for more information: www.wx4nhc.org
WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio station
at the National Hurricane Center in Miami,
will be activating it’s HF and EchoLink/IRLP station
on Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 at 4pm EDT (2000z).
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 at least 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.
Comply with all evacuation notices from your local authorities.
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: www.wx4nhc.org
WX4NHC is very proud to have maintained an active Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center for 30 years this season.
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