[PHX-Skywarn] A new use for Skywarn ????

Wed, 5 Feb 2003 22:18:26 -0700

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Jim Youell

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From: "Allen Sklar" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 5:19 PM
Subject: [PHX-Skywarn] A new use for Skywarn ????

> Hello All...
> A new use for Skywarn ??????
> Via the ARRL
> Allen Sklar
>
>  -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: ARLB012 Texas amateurs aid in shuttle debris recovery, cataloging
> From: "ARRL Web site" <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, February 3, 2003 15:12
> To: [email protected]
>
> SB QST @ ARL $ARLB012
> ARLB012 Texas amateurs aid in shuttle debris recovery, cataloging
>
> ZCZC AG12
> QST de W1AW
> ARRL Bulletin 12  ARLB012
> From ARRL Headquarters
> Newington CT  February 3, 2003
> To all radio amateurs
>
> SB QST ARL ARLB012
> ARLB012 Texas amateurs aid in shuttle debris recovery, cataloging
>
> Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) and SKYWARN volunteers in
> Nacogdoches, Texas, have been assisting local emergency management
officials and
> NASA to locate and catalog debris from the Columbia
> shuttle. The shuttle and its crew of seven, including three hams,
> were lost over Texas February 1.
>
> ARES and SKYWARN volunteers from the Nacogdoches Amateur Radio Club have
been
> surveying the area in and around Nacogdoches looking for shuttle debris.
Public
> Information Officer Tim Lewallen, KD5ING, of the Nacogdoches Amateur Radio
Club
> said amateurs have been
> accompanying officials from both NASA and the EPA to expedite the
> search and clean up of area schools. Texas officials have cancelled school
in most
> of East Texas because of fears that shuttle debris
> could pose a health hazard.
>
> ''Usually we just get the coordinates, take a photo and move on to the
next site,''
> Lewallen said, ''and someone from NASA will come
> along and pick up the piece later.''
>
> He said the club had additional volunteers lined up for duty over
> the next few days, with amateurs coming from East Texas, Houston and
Dallas. The
> ARES and SKYWARN volunteers have been working with
> emergency officials from Nacogdoches County, Texas Rangers, NASA,
> Texas Department of Public Safety, EPA and the National Guard.
>
> The ARES and SKYWARN volunteers also were following up on
> NASA-provided telemetry and radar information that indicates where debris
might be
> found, Lewallen said. The search area includes
> densely forested areas. NASA has requested that those encountering debris
avoid any
> contact with it and cautioned that persons found
> with stolen accident debris will be prosecuted to the full extent of the
law.
>
> The Columbia crew, headed by Commander Rick Husband, included Pilot Willie
McCool
> and Mission Specialists Kalpana ''KC'' Chawla, KD5ESI; David Brown,
KC5ZTC; Laurel
> Clark, KC5ZSU, Michael Anderson, and
> Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon.
> NNNN
> /EX
>
>
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