VoIP Hurricane Net Activation for Barry – Friday Night 7/12/19 8 PM EDT through late Saturday Evening 7/13/19
Hello to all..
**VoIP Hurricane Net activated starting at 8 PM EDT Friday Evening through late Sautrday Evening for Barry and his impacts across Southern Louisiana, Southern Mississippi, and surrounding areas.**
**WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center activated their station at 800 PM EDT Friday Evening through late Saturday Evening for Barry**
Here are the VoIP Hurricane Net and WX4NHC Activation Plans for Michael as of Friday Evening 7/12/19 at 830 PM EDT/7/13/19 0030 UTC – this plan maybe updated with additional info and listen-only capability later tonight or Saturday:
The VoIP Hurricane Net will activate starting at 800 PM EDT Friday Evening through late Saturday Evening for Barry’s impacts to Southern Louisiana, Southern Mississippi, and surrounding areas. WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center activated at 8 PM EDT Friday Evening through late Satuday Evening. Barry is expected to reach hurricane strength as it makes landfall in Southern Louisiana and spreads those conditions across Southern Mississippi and surrounding areas.
Due to the Hurricane Net activation for Barry, the weekly VoIP Hurricane Prep Net for Saturday 7/13/19 is cancelled. The next VoIP Hurricane Prep Net presuming no hurricane net activation will be Satuday 7/20/19 at 8 PM EDT.
Any Amateur Radio Operators in the affected area of Barry or with relays into the affected area of Barry 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 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 Barry 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
In addition to our typical Echolink/IRLP resources, we will be maintaining a monitoring watch on the following modes of communication using DSTAR/DMR and APRS:
D-STAR Reflectors:
XRF757A, XRF735A, XLX307D and XLX049D
D-STAR Smart Groups:
DSTAR1, DSTAR2, DSTAR3 and DSTAR4
DMR Brandmeister (BM) 31012
DMR Plus talkgroup 320 (on the IPSC2-QuadNet Server)
Yaesu System Fusion 37099
Wires-X room #45058
APRS KC5FM
Winlink: KC5FM@winlink.org
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 and can connect on either Echolink or IRLP:
*NEW-ENG3* Echolink conference node: 9123/IRLP 9123
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 Echolink:
*WX5FWD* Echolink conference node: 372418
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 by doing *328849.
The VoIP Hurricane Net Management team continues to closely watch Barry. Thanks to all for their continued support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!
73,Rob-KD1CY.
Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net