VoIP Hurricane Net

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Tropical Depression #2 (TD #2) has formed in the Atlantic near the Bahama Islands and is drifting to the south. TD #2 is expected to intensify into a Tropical Storm and a Tropical Storm Watch has been issued for portions of the Bahama Islands. If TD #2 intensifies as expected, it will be named Bret. After affecting the Bahama Islands, the current forecast track is for this system to stay out over the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean and move towards the Northeast or East-Northeast. This will be monitored closely.

Advisories on this system can be seen at http://www.voipwx.net via links on the main menu of the web site. Advisories can also be found on the National Hurricane Center web site via the following link:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov

The VoIP Hurricane Net Management Team will closely monitor the progress of this system. 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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On Thursday July 7th, 2011 from 8-930 PM EDT, the ARRL will be hosting a Webinar on Hurricanes and the Amateur Radio Response to the 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season. Representatives from the VoIP Hurricane Net, WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center, the Hurricane Watch Net and the ARRL will be giving presentations and discussion in this webinar. The webinar is open to all Amateurs, however, we strongly encourage Amateurs in hurricane prone areas to attend this webinar as the data will apply the most to these people. The ARRL web site article is listed below:

http://www.arrl.org/news/register-for-upcoming-webinar-on-amateur-radio-response-to-2011-hurricane-season

We hope many Amateurs particularly Amateurs in hurricane prone areas can attend this webinar. We will also check to see if this webinar will be archived for review by Amateurs who cannot attend the session live.

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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Tropical Storm Arlene has formed over the Southwestern Gulf of Mexico this evening and is the first tropical system of the 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season. A Tropical Storm Warning has been issued for the coast of Northeastern Mexico from Barra De Nautla northward to Bahia Algodones. At this time, Arlene is not expected to reach hurricane status. It is expected that Arlene’s peak intensity will be a 60 MPH tropical storm, however, with the limitations in the science of intensity prediction of tropical systems, Arlene’s status as a tropical system will be monitored closely in case it unexpectedly intensified into a hurricane.

Arlene advisory information can be seen on the VoIPWXNet web site by looking under Atlantic Tropical Products off the Main Menu of the web site. Arlene Advisory information can also be seen off the National Hurricane Center web site via the following link:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov

The VoIP Hurricane Net Management team will closely monitor the progress of Arlene. 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 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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