VoIP Hurricane Net Will Activate Saturday Morning 9/16/23 8 AM EDT through 11 PM EDT for Hurricane Lee
Hello to all..
**VoIP Hurricane Net will activate at 8 AM EDT Saturday Morning and will remain active potentially through 11 PM EDT Saturday Evening for Hurricane Lee and its potentially significant impacts across Eastern New England including the state of Maine, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Canada supporting WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio station at the National Hurricane Center in Miami Florida. Lee is expected to be a hurricane or strong tropical/post tropical storm as it makes landfall somewhere between extreme Eastern Maine, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Canada.**
**Due to impacts to Eastern New England, the *NEW-ENG3* Echolink conference node: 9123/IRLP 9123 New England Reflector system used for regional New England SKYWARN Activations will be tied into the *WX_TALK* Echolink conference node: 7203/IRLP 9219 reflector system for this hurricane net activation.**
**WX4NHC will also be active with their Amateur Radio Station from 8 AM EDT Saturday Morning through 11 PM EDT Saturday Evening.**
**The VoIP Hurricane Prep Net for Saturday 9/16/23 at 800 PM EDT is canceled.**
Here are the VoIP Hurricane Net Plans for Hurricane Lee as of Thursday 9/14/23 – 925 PM EDT:
The VoIP Hurricane Net will activate at 8 AM EDT Saturday Morning and will remain active potentially through 11 PM EDT Saturday Evening for Hurricane Lee and its potentially significant impacts across Eastern New England including the state of Maine, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Canada supporting WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio station at the National Hurricane Center in Miami Florida. Lee is expected to be a hurricane or strong tropical/post tropical storm as it makes landfall somewhere between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Canada. Due to impacts to Eastern New England, the *NEW-ENG3* Echolink conference node: 9123/IRLP 9123 New England Reflector system used for regional New England SKYWARN Activations will be tied into the *WX_TALK* Echolink conference node: 7203/IRLP 9219 reflector system for this hurricane net activation. WX4NHC will also be active with their Amateur Radio Station from 8 AM EDT Saturday Morning through 11 PM EDT Saturday Evening. The VoIP Hurricane Prep Net for Saturday 9/16/23 at 800 PM EDT is canceled.
Any Amateur Radio Operators in the affected area of Lee or with relays into the affected area of Lee 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:
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 Lee 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:
https://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:
https://www.voipwx.net/qilan/nhcwx/list_VOIP_records1?auth=OK
APRS, Winlink, AllStar, Hamshack Hotline resources that can be monitored are as follows:
APRS kc5fm-9
Winlink KC5FM
Allstar 28848
Echolink KC5FM-R 906281
Hamshack Hotline 94032
DMR TGIF 31207
P25 31207
DSTAR XLXOKL C
Yaesu Fusion 31207
M17-SUN module A
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:
*SKY_GATE* Echolink conference node: 868981/IRLP 9252
*KC4QLP-C* Echolink conference node: 290251
*ARERT* Echolink conference node: 902723
*WASH_DC* Echolink conference node: 6154
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 Hurricane Lee. Thanks to all for their continued support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!
73,Rob-KD1CY.
Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net