Hello to all..

**VoIP Hurricane Net has been active since 6 AM EDT Tuesday Morning and will remain active through 12 PM EDT Wednesday for Hurricane Sally and its impacts to the Northern US Gulf Coast from the Florida Panhandle to Southeast Louisiana. Sally is currently a Category-1 hurricane and will be at Cat-1 to possibly Cat-2 strength and will make landfall later Tuesday or Wednesday Morning along the Northern US Gulf Coast.**
**WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center has also been active since 6 AM EDT Tuesday Morning. Both WX4NHC and the VoIP Hurricane Net were active from 6-10 PM EDT Monday Evening and secured operations overnight due to Sally’s slow movement and the strongest winds remaining offshore overnight.**

Here are the VoIP Hurricane Net and WX4NHC Activation Plans for Sally as of Tuesday Morning at 830 AM EDT:

The VoIP Hurricane Net has been active since 6 AM EDT Tuesday Morning and will remain active through 12 PM EDT Wednesday for Hurricane Sally and its impacts to the Northern US Gulf Coast from the Florida Panhandle to Southeast Louisiana. Sally is currently a Category-1 hurricane and will be at Cat-1 to possibly Cat-2 strength and will make landfall later Tuesday or Wednesday Morning along the Northern US Gulf Coast. WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center has also been active since 6 AM EDT Tuesday Morning. Both WX4NHC and the VoIP Hurricane Net were active from 6-10 PM EDT Monday Evening and secured operations overnight due to Sally’s slow movement and the strongest winds remaining offshore overnight.

Any Amateur Radio Operators in the affected area of Sally or with relays into the affected area of Sally are asked to provide surface and damage reports into the VoIP Hurricane Net for relay into WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio station at the National Hurricane Center. We appreciate any and all support from Amateur Operators in the affected area or Amateur Operators with relays into the affected area. We are looking for reports based on the National Weather Service SKYWARN Reporting criteria. This can be seen on the VoIP Hurricane Net web site at the following link:

VoIP Hurricane Net Reporting Criteria

Any pictures or videos of wind damage, river/stream/urban/storm surge flooding etc. can be sent to our voipwxnet Facebook and Twitter feeds or the following email address: pics@nsradio.org and credit will be given to the Amateur Radio Operator, weather spotter or individual that took the photos and media and be shared with the Amateur Radio team at the National Hurricane Center and other agencies and outlets.

Advisories on Sally can be seen off of the Atlantic Tropical Products menu selection on the voipwxnet web site, via our Facebook and Twitter feeds, and off the National Hurricane Center web site via the following link:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov

Reports as obtained via the VoIP Hurricane Net from Amateur Radio Operators in the affected area, relays from the affected area or from APRS/CWOP Weather Station feeds and other social media outlets can be found at the following link:
http://report.voipwx.net/qilan/nhcwx/list_VOIP_records?auth=OK

APRS, Winlink, AllStar, Hamshack Hotline, DSTAR and DMR resources that can be monitored are as follows:

APRS KC5FM
Winlink: KC5FM@winlink.org

Wiresx 43234
Allstar 28848
Hamshack Hotline 94032
D-STAR Ref052B

Also, we will have the following resources connected into the net directly to provide direct DMR Brandmeister and D-STAR capabilities along with other modes. This is through the efforts of VoIP Hurricane Net Technical Coordinator, Tony Langdon-VK3JED:

IRLP 9550
AllStar 27154
DMR BM TG 50535
P25 TG 50535
YSF reflector 50535 (narrow mode only)
D-STAR XLX432 D (DCS432 D)

Stations outside the affected area that do not have relays into the affected area who would like to listen into the VoIP Hurricane Net can use any of the following systems for listen-only purposes and can connect on either Echolink or IRLP:
*NEW-ENG3* Echolink conference node: 9123/IRLP 9123
*KC4QLP-C* Echolink conference node: 290251
*ARERT* Echolink conference node: 902723
*SKY_GATE* Echolink conference node: 868981
*USA-HAMS* Echolink conference node: 202721

Stations outside the affected area who would like to listen into the VoIP Hurricane Net can use any of the following systems for listen-only purposes on All-Star by dialing *33009123.

The KC5FM All-Star Node will be connected to the VoIP Hurricane Net and can be connected to via Echolink by doing *328848.

These two streaming audio feeds should be available. Those streaming audio feeds are as follows:
Streaming feed 1: http://74.208.24.77:8000 -Provided by KC4QLP-Bob Carter
Streaming feed 2: http://audio.arert.net/ -Provided by the ARERT conference owners and sysops

Please note that there could be additional listen only nodes and streaming feeds. If time allows, this info will be updated via the voipwxnet web site and social media feeds.

The VoIP Hurricane Net Management team continues to closely watch Sally. Thanks to all for their continued support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!

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