VoIP Hurricane Net Activation Situation Report #1 – Major Hurricane Melissa Day-1 Operations and Upcoming Day-2 Tuesday 10/28/25 Operations
Hello to all…
**VoIP Hurricane Net shifting to a monitor/listen only mode for the overnight hours Monday Evening due to Major Hurricane Melissa’s slower movement toward Jamaica. The VoIP Hurricane Net will reactivate at or before 7 AM EDT Tuesday Morning coincident with WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center Operations.**
**Melissa has now made the turn North-Northeast and will be moving toward Jamaica overnight with the worst conditions in Jamaica Tuesday AM through PM and then conditions will worsen in Eastern Cuba Tuesday Night into Wednesday followed by the Turks & Caicos Islands and Central/Southeast Bahamas Wednesday. After that time, a threat to Bermuda will be monitored for Thursday Night into Friday**
**A reminder that the Saturday 11/1/25 VoIP Hurricane Prep Net is Cancelled due to extended VoIP Hurricane Net Activation Operations**
During Monday, Jamaica experienced lower end tropical storm force conditions due to the slow speed of Melissa to the south and southeast of the island. Wind Gusts of 40-50 MPH were common along with heavy rainfall. These conditions downed trees and power lines and caused flooding with numerous road closures due to flooding, trees and wires down and even a few sinkholes from heavy rainfall. Earlier in the afternoon, Jamaica had 51,000 customers of 700,000 without power but some power was able to be restored due to Melissa’s slower movement such that about 21,000 were without power as of approximately 11 PM EDT this evening. Special thanks to K2DCD-Dennis, KC5FM-Lloyd, AE4WX-Mark and KK7AHR-George for their support of Net Control Operations for the net. A total of 40 reports were sent into the National Hurricane Center were sent in via various sources that included online weather stations and social media between Sunday Afternoon through Monday Evening. Our report viewer below shows the reports submitted:
https://www.voipwx.net/qilan/nhcwx/list_VOIP_records1?auth=OK
The rest of this update is from the activation notice with the headline updates above and updates to some of the video streaming services provided by N0VZC-Mike Norrbom:
Here are the VoIP Hurricane Net Plans for Major Hurricane Melissa as of Monday Evening at 1115 PM EDT:
VoIP Hurricane Net shifting to a monitor/listen only mode for the overnight hours Monday Evening due to Major Hurricane Melissa’s slower movement toward Jamaica. The VoIP Hurricane Net will reactivate at or before 7 AM EDT Tuesday Morning coincident with WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center Operations. Melissa has now made the turn North-Northeast and will be moving toward Jamaica overnight with the worst conditions in Jamaica Tuesday AM through PM and then conditions will worsen in Eastern Cuba Tuesday Night into Wednesday followed by the Turks & Caicos Islands and Central/Southeast Bahamas Wednesday. After that time, a threat to Bermuda will be monitored for Thursday Night into Friday
We ask any and all Amateur Radio Operators who may know of Amateur Radio or non-Amateur Radio Operators in the affected area starting with Jamaica and through Eastern Cuba into the Bahamas and Turks & Caicos Islands to give any and all reports from their area. In addition, any folks that can monitor online weather stations, reliable social media sources for reports to get to our net team would be helpful and then our team can discern the data that gets sent to WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center.
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 Melissa 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, Hams Over IP and other resources that can be monitored are as follows:
APRS kc5fm-9
Winlink KC5FM
Allstar 28848
Echolink KC5FM-R 906281
Hams Over IP 15154
Amateur Wire 30415154
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:
*NEW-ENG3* Echolink conference node: 9123/IRLP 9123
*SKY_GATE* Echolink conference node: 868981/IRLP 9252
*KC4QLP-C* Echolink conference node: 290251
*ARERT* Echolink conference node: 902723 (Also bridged to Allstar on Node 273660 and on the YCS311 C4FM Server at http://c4fm.mntrbo.net ID:74)
*FLORIDA* Echolink conference node: 3082
These three 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://radio.arert.net:8000/ARERT -Provided by the ARERT conference owners and sysops
Streaming feed 3: https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/38868 -Provided by the ARERT conference owners and sysops
Video streams will be provided by ARERT if they find video feeds from the affected area and will have audio from the hurricane net on it. Those streams are below:
Video stream feed: https://www.liveweatherusa.com/
Special thanks to N0VZC-Mike Norrbom and the ARERT sysops for their support of these feeds.
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.
A reminder that the VoIP Hurricane Prep Net for Saturday Evening 11/1/25 has been canceled. The next VoIP Hurricane Prep Net will be Saturday Evening 11/8/25 unless a hurricane net activation is required.
The VoIP Hurricane Net Management team continues to closely watch Major Hurricane Melissa. Thanks to all for their continued support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!
73,Rob-KD1CY.
Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net