[KYHAM] Skywarn Recognition Day

[wx4me at bellsouth.net]

This will be our 6th year operating from the Louisville National Weather 
Service, we welcome any visitors who might like to drop in and visit or 
operate from the NWS office at 6201 Theiler Ln. in Louisville. It is located 
just off the Gene Snyder Freeway(I-264) and Smyrna  Rd. We will be operating 
with the callsign WX4NWS. If you hear us on the bands give us a call.
                                                                          Thanks, 
Stu Kratz(WX4ME)
                                                                           Skywarn 
Coordinator
                                                                          wx4me at arrl.net


==>ARRL-NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SKYWARN RECOGNITION DAY IS DECEMBER 4

The sixth annual ARRL-National Weather Service SKYWARN Recognition Day
(SRD) <http://hamradio.noaa.gov/> event takes place Saturday, December 4.
SKYWARN Recognition Day pays tribute to Amateur Radio SKYWARN volunteers
for the vital services they provide during weather-related emergencies.
During the 24-hour activity, radio amateurs set up stations at National
Weather Service (NWS) offices and work as a team to contact other hams
around the world.

"Ham radio operators are a tremendous resource for the National Weather
Service," says Scott Mentzer, N0QE, the event's organizer and the
meteorologist-in-charge at the NWS office in Goodland, Kansas. "The
dedication these amateurs have shown is inspirational, and their
assistance during the year is invaluable."

The 2004 activity gets under way December 4 at 0000 UTC (Friday, December
3, in US time zones) and continues until 2400 UTC. The object is for
amateur stations to exchange QSO information with as many National Weather
Service stations as possible on 80, 40, 20, 15, 10, 6 and 2 meters, and 70
cm. Contacts via repeaters and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) modes
also are permitted. Operators will exchange call sign, signal report, QTH,
and a one or two word description of their weather, such as "sunny,"
"partly cloudy," "windy," etc. Participants in the 2003 SRD logged nearly
19,000 QSOs.

A number of NWS stations will utilize EchoLink and the Internet Radio
Linking Project to make contacts during SRD 2004. IRLP reflector node 9219
will be utilized for QSOs with NWS stations and also will be bridged to
the EchoLink WX-TALK conference room so that IRLP stations can talk to
EchoLink stations using a common point of contact.

WX4NHC at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, will utilize
IRLP reflector 9219 from 1700 UTC through 2100 UTC during SRD 2004. Net
control operators will develop a list of stations to talk to WX4NHC using
an online form, similar to the process used during hurricane season. Danny
Musten, KD4RAA, <kd4raa at voipwx.net> has more information about SRD VoIP
activities. 



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