[Alexandria Radio Club Reflector] Hurricane Watch Net

[Joe K]

Apologies,

Our email list software didn’t handle those links the way I expected.

Beaufort Wind Scale -https://www.hwn.org/resources/bws.html

Hurricane Watch Net Main Site - https://www.hwn.org

On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 15:54, Joe K <[joek at 26xx.org](mailto:On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 15:54, Joe K <<a href=)> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> I wanted to throw a quick message out to the club related to ARES. I'm a little behind and the net has been secured for today already however with the hurricane season underway I thought it would be a good time to bring up the Hurricane Watch Net. As you can imagine the HWN is designed to allow hams to relay time sensitive information when normal communications infrastructure may be INOP or non-operational. The Hurricane Watch net focuses around two main frequencies, 14.325 USB and 07.268 LSB, these freqs are day and night respectively, however due to propagation variances they may use 07.268 during the day as well.
>
> I'm not going to cover the entire nets operation in detail, but some parts that are worth mentioning. Most of you may know your Maidenhead Grid (you probably know at least the first two digits), but you should also know the lat long of your station and those of where your people stay. For instance, I have a list of my family members lat longs who live in Florida, and along the coast, and I have a list of several key areas relevant to their egress paths. Another good reference to have is the https://www.hwn.org/resources/bws.html[Beaufort Wind Scale](https://www.hwn.org/resources/bws.html), while not an official standard, the link on the HWN website is very similar to the one in weather.org's documents. Obviously having a calibrated weather station is the most accurate but simple things like a rain gauge can be helpful as well.
> In addition to the embedded link to the HWN wind scale page here is a link to the main page, where you can find net operation instructions.
>
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