ARRL and VOIP-WXNET
There are a great number of resources on the internet to get up to date, current information on ham radio. One of those resources are yahoo groups, and one in particular that is great for those weather (WX) discussions is VOIP-WXNET which broadcasts over the Echolink system. This group monitors the hurricanes and other storm events in the world and is great to just listen to even if you don’t participate. You can find them on Echolink on the WX-Talk Conference or by IRLP on the Raleigh Reflector 9219.
Here is some recent information from the group that doesn’t pertain to weather, but the goings on in Washington.
ARRL HQ personnel will be in Washington DC today with several folks from Army MARS and they are expecting a visit from members of Congress. This visit is coinciding with a MARS exercise planned for today where various parts of the country get hit with various natural disasters in an attempt to stress the MARS system and promote interoperability between MARS, ARES, RACES and SKYWARN.
Understanding that this great event is unfortunately happening during work hours between 10 AM-5 PM EDT (1400-2100 UTC) Wednesday 10/3, any Amateurs that are available are asked to check into the operation on HF voice, 14.250 MHz and 7.250 MHz as well as PSK-31 on 14.070 MHz. Manager of Preparedness and Response, Dennis Dura-K2DCD, who is also the Assistant Director for VoIP Hurricane Net Operations has asked that Net Controls monitor the *WX-TALK* EchoLink Conference Node: 7203 and IRLP reflector 9219 as they hope to sign on there and take drill traffic reports from this exercise using those means as well. It is not clear when they will be able to get on *WX-TALK*/9219 but they will get on at some point during the 10 AM-5 PM EDT timeframe.
A link to the national article is listed below:
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2007/09/27/100/?nc=1Those that can check-in by any of the means listed, HF, PSK-31, EchoLink/IRLP would be of great help to the exercise and demonstration. Thanks to all for their continued support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!
73,Rob-KD1CY.
Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net
It is important for ham radio operators to stay in touch with what is going on in Washington, after all, they do run the FCC and it does effect what and how we operate. 73, KI4WLR
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October 3rd, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Thanks for posting that — it’s good info and even though we are getting late in the season, there is still a lot of potential for more bad weather to churn up in the Atlantic.
73 de Jeff