[RVRC] Skywarn Recognition Day - Dec 2 & Dec 3

[E Drew Moore]

From: ARRL Members Only Web site [mailto:memberlist at www.arrl.org] 
Subject: Skywarn Recognition Day - Dec 2 & Dec 3

SKYWARN Recognition Day Starts tonight (December 2) at 7PM and runs thru 7PM on Saturday (December 3

SKYWARN Recognition Day was developed in 1999 by the National Weather Service and the American Radio Relay League. It celebrates the contributions that volunteer SKYWARN radio operators make to the National Weather Service. During the day SKYWARN operators visit NWS offices and contact other radio operators across the world.

In the ARRL Hudson Division, 2 NWS Forecast Offices are expected to be on the air.
NWS Mt Holly (WX2PHI) and NWS New York (WX2OKX). Across the country more than 100 NWS Forecast offices are expected to take part on HF, VHF and UHF operating in various modes.

For those of you who able to access some of the SKYWARN associated repeaters in the NWS’s New York area (see county listing below), you can also make direct contact with their operators and take part in SKYWARN Recognition Day 2011 as follows:

In the greater NE NJ, Lower Hudson Valley, NYC and Long Island area, each of the below listed NWS New York NY SKYWARN associated repeaters will be worked for a half hour period, 3 times during the event. 

Starting at 8:00 PM on Friday Night, and with a second cycle starting at 9:00 AM on Saturday morning, followed by the third and final cycle starting at 2:00 PM on Saturday.

The order, and frequencies, by which the NWS Upton NY will move from repeater to repeater is:

Fairfield County, CT	   147.300
Stamford County, CT  164.655
Bergen/Passaic County, NJ	146.700
Hudson County, NJ	441.250
Nassau County, NY	146.805
Orange County, NY	146.760
Putnam County, NY	145.130
Rockland County, NY  147.165
Suffolk County, NY	    145.330 / 145.310
Westchester County, NY	147.060

The exchange with the Forecast offices is short and along the lines of: Your Callsign, Your Name, Your Location, Your Signal Report on their transmission ("Your signal is 5-9") and a brief Weather Report (Sunny, 48 degrees F, etc)

Complete information, including how to get your NWS SKYWARN Recognition Day Certificate as well as individual QSL from those stations offering them, is available online at: http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mtr/hamradio/

I've always considered this a fun event!  I hope you all will take advantage of this opportunity to speak with NWS offices across the Country as well as those locally.

73 - 
Joyce - KA2ANF
Bill - W2UDT
"The Hudson Division Team"

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