VoIP Hurricane Net and WX4NHC Amateur Radio Station Activation Secured at 1 AM ET Wednesday 8/8/12
Hello to all..
The VoIP Hurricane Net and WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center, secured operations for Hurricane Ernesto at 1 AM ET Wednesday Morning. Ernesto has weakened into a tropical storm but may prompt an additional activation on Thursday Afternoon and Evening if Ernesto regains enough intensity and reaches hurricane strength as it moves out over the extreme Southern Gulf of Mexico potentially making landfall near Veracruz Mexico late Thursday Afternoon/Evening. Ernesto Advisory information can be seen off the Main Menu of the Web site and can be seen via the National Hurricane Center web site via the following link:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov
The VoIP Hurricane Net would like to thank NP3OD-Fransisco and 9Z4FZ-Julien and several other Amateur Operators on Trinidad for their significant efforts in providing relays into the affected area. Francisco-NP3OD was able to speak Spanish to several Amateur Operators on the XE3RA-L system and the Hams in Trinidad were able to establish contact to the Mexican HF Net on 40 Meters. This was very helpful in acquiring some information from the area. We also like to thank the Mexican Hams that provided what information they could provide to NHC forecasters and WX4NHC.
We also want to thank N0UAM-Jim Sellars, Assistant Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net, who discovered a weather station in Costa Maya at the Margarita del Sol Costa Maya Resort which was right in the path of Ernesto. Many reports from that station were relayed until the connection to the weather station was lost due to a power outage. An attempt was made to contact someone there on site but their cell phone had a ‘temporary out of service’ message so no further data could be gathered from this station.
Hello to all..
The VoIP Hurricane Net and WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center, secured operations for Hurricane Ernesto at 1 AM ET Wednesday Morning. Ernesto has weakened into a tropical storm but may prompt an additional activation on Thursday Afternoon and Evening if Ernesto regains enough intensity and reaches hurricane strength as it moves out over the extreme Southern Gulf of Mexico potentially making landfall near Veracruz Mexico late Thursday Afternoon/Evening. Ernesto Advisory information can be seen off the Main Menu of the Web site and can be seen via the National Hurricane Center web site via the following link:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov
The VoIP Hurricane Net would like to thank NP3OD-Fransisco and 9Z4FZ-Julien and several other Amateur Operators on Trinidad for their significant efforts in providing relays into the affected area. Francisco-NP3OD was able to speak Spanish to several Amateur Operators on the XE3RA-L system and the Hams in Trinidad were able to establish contact to the Mexican HF Net on 40 Meters. This was very helpful in acquiring some information from the area. We also like to thank the Mexican Hams that provided what information they could provide to NHC forecasters and WX4NHC.
We also want to thank N0UAM-Jim Sellars, Assistant Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net, who discovered a weather station in Costa Maya at the Margarita del Sol Costa Maya Resort which was right in the path of Ernesto. Many reports from that station were relayed until the connection to the weather station was lost due to a power outage. An attempt was made to contact someone there on site but their cell phone had a ‘temporary out of service’ message so no further data could be gathered from this station.
The VoIP Hurricane Net Management team will continue to monitor the progres of Ernesto. Thanks to all for their continued support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!
73,Rob-KD1CY.
Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net