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[Ed LaCombe]

Hello to all..

..The following is a reminder and 
update on SKYWARN Recognition Day.
Updates have been made adding the ARRL Web 
Site SKYWARN Recognition Day
announcement and finalizing the Echolink/IRLP 
schedule on the *WX_TALK*
Node: 7203/IRLP 9219 system. Remainder is 
unchanged..

The following is a special announcement on SKYWARN 
Recognition Day. This
announcement also appears on the WX1BOX home page via 
the following link:

http://www.wx1box.org/node/1556 

Announcement text is listed below: 

The National Weather Service 
in Taunton Amateur Radio Station, WX1BOX,
will once again be active for 
SKYWARN Recognition Day 2011. In addition,
for the fifth straight year, the 
National Weather Service Gray, Maine
Office will also be active under 
call-sign, WX1GYX. The Boston Amateur
Radio Club will also be 
active as they have been over the past several
years at the NWS Blue Hill 
Observatory under call-sign W1BOS/MQE from 9
AM-3 PM Saturday December 3rd, 
2011. 

This will be the 13th year of SKYWARN Recognition Day and its 
anticipated that over 100 NWS Forecast Offices will be participating 
once
again this year. This event was featured on page 68 of the December 
2011
Issue of QST Magazine and web links to information on SKYWARN 
Recognition
Day can be seen at the following links:

http://hamradio.noaa.gov
http://www.arrl.org/news/the-13th-annual-skywarn-recognition-day-set-for-
december-3

The 
following is a schedule of repeaters that will be 
utilized along with 
simplex being utilized during certain timeframes on
Saturday at WX1BOX. We 
hope Amateurs will utilize this schedule and try
and work WX1BOX during these 
various timeframes. If you don't hear NWS,
feel free to call for WX1BOX and 
if the office is monitoring, a response
will be given. When you make contact, 
give your current sky condition and
temperature as required. Below is the 
tentative schedule of operations:

Friday December 2nd, 2011: 
7:00-7:30 PM: 146.970-Paxton Repeater (PL: 114.8 Hz) 
7:30-8:00 PM: 
147.180-Bridgewater Repeater (PL: 67.0 Hz) 
8:00-8:30 PM: 145.490-Fairhaven 
Repeater (PL: 67.0 Hz) 
8:30-9:00 PM: 146.955-Westford Repeater (PL: 74.4 Hz) 
9:00-9:30 PM: 146.79-Vernon, CT Repeater (PL: 82.5 Hz) (linked via
IRLP.) 
9:30-10:00 PM: 147.225-Killingly, CT Repeater (PL: 156.7 Hz) 
10:00-10:30 
PM: 146.760-Scituate, RI Repeater 
PL: 67.0 Hz 
10:30-11:00 PM: 145.470-Danvers Repeater (PL: 
136.5 Hz) 
11:00-11:30 PM: 146.955-Barnstable PL: 88.5 or 
147.375-Falmouth Repeater
PL: 110.9
11:30 PM-12:00 AM: 146.640-Waltham 
Repeater 

**Will Attempt to monitor both the New England Network and 
the
*WX-TALK*/IRLP Reflector 9219 systems during this entire 
timeframe.

**It is possible we may switch off to different repeaters or 
simplex
during time slots if we run out of contacts.

Saturday December 
3rd, 2011: 
7:00-8:30 AM: 146.595 Simplex 
8:30-9:00 AM: Litchfield County 
Linked System via KB1AEV repeater
system 
9:00-9:30 AM: 145.230-Boston 
Repeater (PL: 88.5 Hz) 
9:30-10:00 AM: 146.640-Waltham Repeater 
10:00-10:30 AM: 146.895-Walpole Repeater (PL: 123.0 Hz) 
10:30-11:00 AM: 
147.225-Killingly, CT Repeater (PL: 156.7 Hz) 
11:00-11:30 AM: 
145.470-Danvers Repeater (PL: 136.5 Hz) 
11:30 AM-Noon: 146.79-Vernon, CT 
Repeater (Linked via IRLP.) 
Noon-1:00 PM: 146.595 Simplex 
1:00-1:30 PM: 
146.685-Plymouth Repeater (PL: 82.5 Hz) 
1:30-2:00 PM: 145.130-Gloucester 
Repeater (PL: 107.2 Hz) 
2:00-2:30 PM: 146.955-Barnstable (PL: 88.5) or 
147.375-Falmouth
Repeater (PL: 110.9)
2:30-3:00 PM: 146.955-Westford 
Repeater (PL: 74.4) 
3:00-3:30 PM: 146.970-Paxton Repeater (PL: 114.8) 
3:30-4:00 PM: 147.165-Exeter, RI Repeater (PL: 67.0) 
4:00-4:30 PM: 
146.760-Scituate, RI or 145.37-Coventry, RI Repeater (PL:
67.0) 
4:30-5:00 
PM: 145.490-Fairhaven Repeater (PL: 67.0) 
5:00-5:30 PM: 147.180-Bridgewater 
Repeater (PL: 67.0) 
5:30-6:00 PM: 449.375-Pack Monadnock, NH Repeater (PL: 
88.5 Hz) 
6:00-6:30 PM: 146.895-Walpole Repeater (PL: 123.0) 
6:30-7:00 
PM: 147.000-Dartmouth Repeater (PL: 67.0) 

**Will Attempt to monitor both 
the New England Network and the
*WX-TALK*/IRLP Reflector 9219 systems during 
this entire timeframe.

**It is possible we may switch off to different 
repeaters or simplex
during time slots if we run out of contacts.

The 
following is information EchoLink/IRLP operations during SKYWARN
Recognition 
Day. The schedule has now been finalized:

Time in UTC NWS Office 
Call-Sign
0000-0100: WX0GLD (Confirmed to keep the time slot)
0100-0200: 
WX1GYX (Confirmed to keep the time slot)
0200-0300: WX4MLB (Confirmed to keep 
the time slot)
0300-0400: W0ABR (Confirmed to keep the time 
slot)
0400-0500: WX1BOX (Confirmed to keep the time slot)
0500-0600: 
WX9GRB (Confirmed to keep the time slot)
0600-0700: WX4HUN (Confirmed to keep 
the time slot)
0700-0800: N0NWS (Confirmed to keep the time 
slot)
0800-0900: KL7FWX (Confirmed to keep time slot. Will Show Up on 
Echolink
as KL2GS - NWS FairbanksAK)
0900-1000: KL7FWX (Confirmed to keep 
time slot. Will Show Up on Echolink
as KL2GS - NWS FairbanksAK)
1000-1100: KL7FWX (Confirmed to keep 
time slot. Will Show Up on Echolink
as KL2GS - NWS FairbanksAK)
1100-1200: WX4HUN (Taking WX7PHX Time 
Slot and relinguishing their
1400-1500 UTC time slot)
1200-1300: W7NWS 
(Confirmed to keep the time slot)
1300-1400: KL7FWX (Confirmed to keep time 
slot. Will Show Up on Echolink
as KL2GS - NWS FairbanksAK)
1400-1500: WX4SLC (New NWS Office for 
SRD'2011)
1500-1600: WX1BOX (Confirmed to keep the time slot)
1600-1800: 
WX4NC (Confirmed to keep the time slot, 2 hour time slot and
time slot is 
from last year)
1800-1900: WX6MTR (Confirmed to keep the time 
slot)
1900-2000: K0MPX (Confirmed to keep the time slot)
2000-2100: WX4MLB 
(Confirmed to keep the time slot)
2100-2300: WX4NHC (Confirmed to keep the 
time slot)
2300-2400: WX6NWS (Confirmed the NWS SacramentoCalifornia Office for
this time 
slot)

There will be other conference systems utilized for SKYWARN 
Recognition
Day. They are as follows:

The New England Reflector 
Gateway System will be utilized by the NWS
Taunton, Mass. and NWS Gray, Maine offices from 0000-0500 UTC 
and
1200-2400 UTC. The New England Gateway system is on EchoLink 
Conference
server *NEW-ENG* Node: 9123, IRLP reflector 9123. If other NWS 
offices
would like to join the
system, they are welcome to do so and 
participants in SKYWARN Recognition
Day can also use that system to make 
contact with various NWS offices.

Also, the Western Reflector will be 
having NWS offices calling CQ as in
past years on reflector 9250 and have its 
gateway system on IRLP
9258/EchoLink Conference *NV-GATE* Node: 125266 open 
for NWS offices.
Please contact Kent-W7AOR for additional information on the 
Western
Reflector.

A few technical reminders for folks interested in 
making contacts with
the NWS Forecast Offices on the *WX-TALK* Node: 
7203/IRLP 9219 and New
England Reflector Gateway IRLP 
9123/*NEW-ENG* Echolink Node: 9123
systems:

-The system allows both 
EchoLink and IRLP connections. For EchoLink
users, you connect to the 
*WX-TALK* Node: 7203 conference system. For
IRLP users, you would connect to 
IRLP reflector 9219.

-If you are using EchoLink, the RF node or PC that 
you're using must have
EchoLink conferencing disabled. If it is not disabled, 
the system will
automatically kick the node or PC off of the 
system.

The reason this occurs is to prevent unintentional interference 
from a
conferencing station that may not know the node is connected 
somewhere
else. This will keep traffic moving on the net and reduce 
interference
considerably.

For more information on VoIP Technical 
Configuration Tips, please go to
our web site at http://www.voipwx.net where we have a link to 
that
information on the main menu of the web site. This announcement will 
also
be on the web site.

We are looking forward to another fun SKYWARN 
Recognition Day on the
*WX-TALK* Node: 7203/IRLP reflector 9219 system, New 
England Reflector
Gateway system and Western Reflector system. Thanks to all 
for there
support!

Respectfully Submitted, 

Robert Macedo 
(KD1CY) 
ARES SKYWARN Coordinator 
Eastern Massachusetts ARES Section 
Emergency Coordinator 
Home Phone #: (508) 994-1875 (After 6 PM) 
Home/Data #: (508) 997-4503 (After 6 PM) 
Work Phone #: 508-346-2929 (8 
AM-5 PM) 
Email Address: rmacedo at rcn.com 
http://ares.ema.arrl.org
http://www.wx1box.org
 
KB1NWH
Carroll 
"Ed" LaCombe
Technical 
Director HCRA
Emergency 
Coordinator MTARA
RACESState of Massachusetts
ARES Westerm Massachusetts 
Section
SKYWARN NWS Boston Office, TauntonMassachusetts