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Friday November 30th represents the end of the 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season. The season was a bit busier than expected with 2 landfalling intense systems, Hurricane Isaac affecting the Northern US Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi and Hurricane/Post-Tropical Cyclone Sandy affecting the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast US Coast as well as portions of the Caribbean, Jamaica, Cuba and the Bahamas. Two tropical storms, Beryl and Debby, affected the state of Florida. A link to the complete news release is listed below:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2012/20121129_hurricaneseasonwrapup.html

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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Please see the announcement from WX4NHC – Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center on their SKYWARN Recognition Day activities. WX4NHC will be on the *WX_TALK* Echolink conference node: 7203/IRLP 9219 system from 400-600 PM EST (2100-2300 UTC). Their complete announcement is listed below:

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A reminder that the last VoIP Hurricane Prep Net for 2012 and the CANWARN ‘Weather Radio Listeners’ Net will be combined for Saturday December 1st, 2012 at 7 PM EST/0000 UTC immediately following SKYWARN Recognition Day (SRD) 2012. The CANWARN ‘Weather Radio Listeners’ Net takes place weekly on Saturday Evenings at 7 PM EST and the net was backed up one hour to allow folks from their net to participate in the VoIP Hurricane Prep Net. Since that was done, we kept the VoIP Hurricane Prep Net at 8 PM EST to encourage participation in both nets on Saturday Evenings. With SRD being an all day event and the fact that the CANWARN ‘Weather Radio Listeners’ Net was at 7 PM and we didn’t want people to have to wait until 8 PM to check into our net after what is typically a long day of operating, we have combined the nets to take place at 7 PM EST immediately following SRD’2012.

We hope folks will check into this combined net and this combined net will be the last VoIP Hurricane Prep Net for 2012 as we revert to the first Saturday of the month at 8 PM EST/7 PM CST for the non-hurricane season months. 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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SKYWARN Recognition Day is December 1st, 2012 from 0000-2400 UTC (Friday Evening November 30th from 7 PM ET-Saturday December 1st at 7 PM EST)and Echolink and IRLP will be playing a role in SRD as it has in past years. SKYWARN Recognition Day is an opportunity for National Weather Service Forecast Offices across the United States to thank SKYWARN Spotters for their efforts in obtaining timely severe weather reporting for the protection of life and property. This is the SKYWARN program’s main mission.

EchoLink and IRLP are just a couple of modes people can utilize to contact NWS offices during SKYWARN Recognition Day. Many NWS offices will be on 2 Meters, 440 MHz, HF, Digital other VHF/UHF bands. Additional details on SKYWARN Recognition Day can be found via the following links:

http://hamradio.noaa.gov

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SKYWARN Recognition Day (SRD) 2012 will be on Saturday December 1st, 2012 from 0000-2400 UTC (Friday Evening 11/30/12 at 7 PM EST through Saturday Evening 12/1/12 7 PM EST). Our last VoIP Hurricane Prep Net will take place immediately following SRD’2012 and will be combined with the Weather Radio Listeners Newsletter Net in coordination with folks in Canada that run this net at 7 PM EST.

We will have many NWS offices rotating on a schedule during SRD’2012. A complete list of NWS offices participating on the system will be sent later this week. If new NWS offices are interested in participating the system, please contact me at kd1cy at voipwx.net.

The SRD web site has been updated with information for 2012. Please see the link below:

http://hamradio.noaa.gov

We look forward to hearing many stations on the *WX_TALK* Echolink conference node: 7203/IRLP 9219 system as well as on other Echolink and IRLP nodes and systems, HF, VHF and UHF during SRD’2012. Thanks to all for their continued support.

73,Rob-KD1CY.
Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net

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The Amateur Radio Newsline featured the VoIP Hurricane Net efforts during Hurricane Sandy in the November 9th, 2012 edition of their weekly Amateur Radio Newsline program. A link to the recording from the Amateur Radio Newsline focused on the VoIP Hurricane Net Hurricane Sandy story as well as the written transcript are listed below:

http://www.voipwx.net/files/voip_wxnet_newsline_sandy.mp3

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