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The following is the official announcement on the WX4NHC Communications Test for Saturday June 4th, 2011. The entire on-air test will be from 9 AM-5 PM ET (1300-2100 UTC). WX4NHC will be active on the *WX_TALK* Echolink Conference Node: 7203/IRLP 9219 system from 1-3 PM ET (1700-1900 UTC). Below is the complete announcement as provided by WX4NHC Assistant National Hurricane Center Amateur Radio Coordinator, Julio Ripoll-WD4R:

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The April 2011 VoIP Hurricane Prep Net featured a presentation from Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net, Rob Macedo-KD1CY, on the 2011 National Hurricane Conference and the VoIP Hurricane Net’s participation in the conference. The conference overview was provided to give net participants an idea of the net’s role in the National Hurricane Conference as well as a presentation that will be done on the Monday Evening of the conference on the campus of Georgia Tech for several Amateur Radio Clubs and Amateur Radio groups in the Atlanta area and for the Georgia Tech Amateur Radio Club. The presentation and recording links are listed below with the presentation portion of the net recording starting approximately 27 minutes 30 seconds (27:30) into the presentation.  The presentation and recording links are listed below:

VoIP Hurricane Net Recording (Approximately 6 Meg in Size): http://www.voipwx.net/files/National_Hurricane_Conference_April_2011_Net_Presentation.mp3

VoIP Hurricane Net Overview of National Hurricane Conference Presentations: http://www.voipwx.net/files/National_Hurricane_Conference_Overview_of_Amateur_Radio_2011.pdf

The presentation and recording links have been placed into the VoIPWXNet Presentations Archive which is a link on the main menu of the voipwx.net web paage at http://www.voipwx.net and the VoIP Hurricane Net Management Team thanks everyone for their support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!

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

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A reminder that we will have the VoIP Hurricane Prep Net this evening at 8 PM EDT/7 PM CDT/0000 UTC (due to Daylight Saving Time, the net is moved up one hour from now through early November). For tonight’s net, we will give a short presentation on the Amateur Radio Workshops planned for the National Hurricane Conference. Due to the short notice of announcing this presentation, a Power Point presentation and recording will be made and archived to the VoIP Hurricane Net web site. The link to the Power Point presentation is provided below in PDF format.

http://www.voipwx.net/files/National_Hurricane_Conference_Overview_of_Amateur_Radio_2011.pdf

It is a small file so the link below should work even for those with slow Internet connections. We look forward to presenting this information this evening and again, due to the short notice of the net, a recording of the net and this presentation will be archived on the VoIP Hurricane Net web site at http://www.voipwx.net

Thanks to all for their continued support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!

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

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The following is a press release from NOAA. An Air Force Hurricane Hunter Aircraft WC-130J will be doing a tour of Mexico and the Caribbean Islands the week of March 21st-March 26th, 2011. Along with tours of the aircraft, it is an opportunity to meet US National Hurricane Center Director, KB5FYA-Bill Read, Senior Hurricane Specialist, Lixion Avila and Tropical Analysis and Forecast Branch (TAFB) meteorologist Scott Stripling along with Air Force Reservists from the 53rd Reconnaisance Squadron, 403rd Wing, Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi.

The complete article and the locations for where they are making stops can be seen via the following link:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2011/20110303_chat.html

If any of our Caribbean or Mexican Amateurs visit the tour, we’d like to hear back on how it went and who they were able to meet on the tour and we hope this message will get the word out to all Caribbean and Mexican Amateurs in hurricane prone areas to visit the tour and to prepare themsleves for the upcoming 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season and participate in the hurricane nets that support WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center, which is now entering its 31st year of service.

Thanks to all for their continued support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!

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

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Just a reminder that we will have our VoIP Hurricane Net Saturday Night at 7 PM US ET/6 PM US ET/0000 UTC. Jim Sellars-N0UAM will be our net control for the net. We will not have a training session for this month’s net.

Daylight Savings Time will start again on Sunday March 13th at 2 AM so starting with the April Net, the time of the net will shift to 8 PM US ET/7 PM US ET/0000 UTC. We will try to send out a reminder on that prior to the April Net.

We hope to hear many folks on the net tomorrow evening. Thanks to all for their continued support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!

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

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Well, unfortunately, here we go again! New England Blizzard Operations will occur on Echolink/IRLP on the *NEW-ENG* Node: 9123/IRLP 9123 system. The *WX*TALK* Node: 7203/IRLP 9219 system has been linked in as a listen only reflector system to the operations. SKYWARN Activation will start at 3 AM ET Wednesday lasting through Wednesday Evening. Further details are available at:

http://www.wx1box.org
http://ares.ema.arrl.org

73,Rob-KD1CY.
Eastern Massachusetts ARES Section Emergency Coordinator
ARES SKYWARN Coordinator for NWS Taunton Massachusetts
Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net

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The VoIP Hurricane Net Management Team would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy New Year. With the New Year holiday falling on a Saturday, we will postpone the net to next Saturday January 8th, 2011. If time allows, a training presentation of the December East Coast Blizzard of 2010 will be done on next week’s net.

We wish everyone the best in this holiday season. Thanks to all for their continued support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!

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

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SKYWARN Recognition Day is December 4th, 2010 from 0000-2400 UTC and Echolink and IRLP will be playing a role in SRD as it has in past years. SKYWARN Recognition Day is an opportunity for National Weather Service Forecast Offices across the United States to thank SKYWARN Spotters for their efforts in obtaining timely severe weather reporting for the protection of life and property. This is the SKYWARN program’s main mission.

EchoLink and IRLP are just a couple of modes people can utilize to contact NWS offices during SKYWARN Recognition Day. Many NWS offices will be on 2 Meters, 440 MHz, HF and other VHF/UHF bands. Additional details on SKYWARN Recognition Day can be found on page 62 of the December 2010 edition of QST and at the following web page links:

http://hamradio.noaa.gov
http://www.arrl.org/news/skywarn-recognition-day-set-for-december-4

As in past years, the EchoLink *WX_TALK* Node: 7203/IRLP reflector 9219 system will be scheduling time for NWS offices in 1-2 hour time slots to act as a net control to make contacts with spotters that are on the system. If a NWS office runs out of contacts and there are other NWS offices on the system, the NWS office acting as net control can turn it over to a different NWS office to act as a net control on the system at their discretion.

We’d like to ask NWS offices to do their best to adhere to the schedule. Sometimes this is difficult due to the number of contacts received by NWS offices. We ask for everyone’s patience and working cooperatively to respect the time slot schedule.

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The VoIP Hurricane Net will be activating with WX4NHC, Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center at 9 AM ET Friday November 5th, 2010 for the impact of Tomas on Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Southeast Cuba and the Bahama Islands. The net will be active through the late afternoon/evening hours on Friday.

We would like any support on gathering reports from the affected area. Any HF relays, people who can monitor broadcast radio over the Internet from Haiti and understand Creole or have contacts with the affected area of Haiti by any means are asked to support the net. Our reporting criteria is on the web site via the following link:

http://www.voipwx.net/node/236

Any support that can be provided is appreciated. Thanks to all for their continued support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!

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

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