[InHam] FYI - VoIP Hurricane Net Activation Plans for Hurricane Irma - 9/4/17

[WD8ARZ]

FYI - 73 from Bill - WD8ARZ

On 9/4/2017 6:16 PM, rmacedo at rcn.com [VOIP-WXNET] wrote:
> Hello to all..
>
> **VoIP Hurricane Net to activate no later than 6 PM EDT/2200 UTC 
> Tuesday Evening 9/5/17 for Hurricane Irma Impacts to the Northern 
> Leeward Islands, the US and British Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.**
> **WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center, 
> will activate at 600 PM EDT/2200 UTC Tuesday Evening 9/5/17 for 
> Hurricane Irma Impacts to the Northern Leeward Islands, the US and 
> British VIrgin Islands and Puerto Rico.**
>
> **Updated listen-only capability. Remainder is unchanged.**
>
> Here are the VoIP Hurricane Net Activation Plans for Hurricane Irma as 
> of 9/4/17 at 545 PM EDT/2145 UTC:
>
> The VoIP Hurricane Net will activate for Hurricane Irma no later than 
> 6 PM EDT/2200 UTC Tuesday Evening 9/5/17 and WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio 
> Station at the National Hurricane Center, will activate at 600 PM 
> EDT/2200 UTC Tuesday Evening 9/5/17. Hurricane Irma is a Category-IV 
> hurricane and is expected to remain a major hurricane for the next 
> several days as it moves across the area along and north of the 
> Caribbean islands and into the Turks and Caicos Islands and Southeast 
> Bahamas. For that reason, the VoIP Hurricane Net for Irma could be a 
> very prolonged activation because of Irma's track affecting multiple 
> land areas. Impacts to the US East Coast remain uncetrain but some 
> impacts to Florida and the Florida keys look possible at this time and 
> other portions of the US East Coast should monitor closely as we are 
> in the peak of the Atlantic Hurricane Season.
>
> Any Amateur Radio Operators in the affected area of Irma or with 
> relays into the affected area of Irma are asked to provide surface and 
> damage reports into the VoIP Hurricane Net for relay into WX4NHC, the 
> Amateur Radio station at the National Hurricane Center. Any SKYWARN 
> Nets active in the local area as Irma moves into Puerto Rico and the 
> US Virgin Islands that can pass reports to the VoIP Hurricane Net for 
> relay into WX4NHC are welcome to send a net liaison or connect 
> directly at their discretion to the *WX_TALK* Echolink conference 
> node: 7203/IRLP 9219. Stations on All-Star can connect to the Echolink 
> side of the system by dialing *033007203. We appreciate any and all 
> support from Amateur Operators in the affected area or Amateur 
> Operators with relays into the affected area. We are looking for 
> reports based on the National Weather Service SKYWARN Reporting 
> criteria. This can be seen on the VoIP Hurricane Net web site at the 
> following link:
>
> http://www.voipwx.net/node/236
>
> Advisories on Irma can be seen off of the Main Menu of the voipwxnet 
> web site, via our Facebook and Twitter feeds, and off the National 
> Hurricane Center web site via the following link: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov
>
> Stations outside the affected area who would like to listen into the 
> VoIP Hurricane Net can use any of the following systems for 
> listen-only purposes and can connect on either Echolink or IRLP:
> *NEW-ENG3* Echolink conference node: 9123/IRLP 9123
> *Starlink* Echolink conference node: 357087/IRLP 9255
>
> Stations outside the affected area who would like to listen into the 
> VoIP Hurricane Net can use any of the following systems for 
> listen-only purposes on Echolink:
> *KA1AAA* Echolink conference node: 269929
>
> *WASH_DC* Echolink conference node: 6154
>
> Stations outside the affected area who would like to listen into the 
> VoIP Hurricane Net can use any of the following systems for 
> listen-only purposes on All-Star by dialing *033270177 or *033009123.
>
> An audio livestream has been setup on Youtube through the efforts of 
> W5YAG-Chad Yaggie. That link is listed below:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlZWa-hmp0g
>
> The VoIP Hurricane Net Management team continues to closely watch 
> Hurricane Irma. Thanks to all for their continued support of the VoIP 
> Hurricane Net!
>
> 73,Rob-KD1CY.  -  Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net
>
> Posted by: rmacedo at rcn.com
>