Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and Happy Holidays to All from the VoIP Hurricane Net Management Team!
Hello to all..
On behalf of the VoIP Hurricane Net Management Team, we would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and Happy Holidays to all. Thanks to all of you for your support of the VoIP Hurricane Net during 2013.
The 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season was one of the quietest seasons in the history of the VoIP Hurricane Net. There were no formal net activations for any tropical systems this year. The first season like that in recent memory and a far cry from the past few seasons which had multiple significant VoIP Hurricane Net activations over the course of the year. As occurs yearly, we did support WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center with the WX4NHC Communications Test at the start of the 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season. As our main client, we appreciate WX4NHC’s support of our net and thank WX4NHC Coordinators, Julio Ripoll-WD4R and John McHugh-K4AG for their support. They have been an incredible partner with the VoIP Hurricane Net dating back to the net’s inception in the 2003-2004 timeframe.
We also had another successful SKYWARN Recognition Day event on the home of the VoIP Hurricane Net, Echolink conference: *WX-TALK* Node: 7203/IRLP 9219. Many NWS offices rotated on the system making contacts with Amateur Radio Operators and SKYWARN Spotters from around the country thanking them for their support as well as making contact with different NWS offices around the country.
Hello to all..
On behalf of the VoIP Hurricane Net Management Team, we would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and Happy Holidays to all. Thanks to all of you for your support of the VoIP Hurricane Net during 2013.
The 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season was one of the quietest seasons in the history of the VoIP Hurricane Net. There were no formal net activations for any tropical systems this year. The first season like that in recent memory and a far cry from the past few seasons which had multiple significant VoIP Hurricane Net activations over the course of the year. As occurs yearly, we did support WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center with the WX4NHC Communications Test at the start of the 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season. As our main client, we appreciate WX4NHC’s support of our net and thank WX4NHC Coordinators, Julio Ripoll-WD4R and John McHugh-K4AG for their support. They have been an incredible partner with the VoIP Hurricane Net dating back to the net’s inception in the 2003-2004 timeframe.
We also had another successful SKYWARN Recognition Day event on the home of the VoIP Hurricane Net, Echolink conference: *WX-TALK* Node: 7203/IRLP 9219. Many NWS offices rotated on the system making contacts with Amateur Radio Operators and SKYWARN Spotters from around the country thanking them for their support as well as making contact with different NWS offices around the country.
As we move into next year, we will again have a presence at the 2014 National Hurricane Conference which will be in Orlando, Florida. With the quiet hurricane season and feedback that we have received from some net participants, we will look at reinstituting training presentations particularly on the non-hurricane season months in 2014 and attempt to do a few training sessions during a few of the weekly nets during the 2014 Atlantic Hurricane Season. We will also look into continuing the NCO training that was done in 2012 and look at boosting recruitment of net controls for the net as we move into the new year. We will also look at boosting more stations and contacts within the affected areas of hurricanes to provide critical surface reports to WX4NHC.
We look forward to working with everyone again in 2014. Our first regular net of 2014 will be Saturday January 4th, 2014 at 8 PM ET/7 PM CT/6 PM MT/5 PM PT which also equates to 0100 UTC Sunday. The net will meet monthly through May and then become weekly during the Atlantic Hurricane Season. We again wish all of our reporting stations, net controls and supporting stations that listen to the VoIP Hurricane Net a Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and a Happy Holiday season!
73,Rob-KD1CY.
Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net