[South Florida DX Association] National Hurricane Conference

[Bill]

The Southeastern Division is proud that the National Hurricane
Conference (NHC) will be held April 18-22, at the Hyatt Regency in
Atlanta, GA.  The National Hurricane Conference leadership recognizes
the valuable contribution of amateur radio and again invited us to
participate with two sessions.  What a great opportunity for amateur
radio!

There will be several amateur radio activities going on during the week
including:

Monday, April 18, 2011 from 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm, the main NHC amateur
radio session titled, “Amateur Radio Training Sessions: Disaster
Communications Before, During and After Hurricanes.”

Monday, April 18, 2011 from 7:00 pm to 9:00pm, The ARRL Southeastern
Division, the Georgia Tech Amateur Radio Club, Atlanta Radio Club, and
several local ARES groups will host an interactive free “NHC
Workshop” for ARES and interested amateur radio operators that could
not make the conference.  You will be able to meet other like-minded
hams and the presenters of the Hurricane Conference amateur radio
sessions. The agenda will be: introductions, conference presenters
summarize the NHC amateur radio presentations, emergency communications
discussion, questions&  answers and door prizes.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011 from 8:30 am to 10:00 am, NHC amateur radio
session designed for Emergency Management agencies called “Amateur
Radio Rap Session-The Emergency Manager’s Hidden Resource”.

For additional details see,
http://www.southeastern.arrl.org/2011NationalHurricaneConferenceActivities.pdf
http://www.southeastern.arrl.org/NHC_Events_Flyer2011.pdf
http://www.hurricanemeeting.com

Hurricane Conference presenters are:

Julio Ripoll WD4R
WX4NHC Amateur Radio Asst. Coordinator
National Hurricane Center

John McHugh, K4AG
Coordinator for Amateur Radio
National Hurricane Center, WX4NHC

Rob Macedo, KD1CY
Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net
ARRL Section emergency Coordinator, Eastern Massachusetts

Dennis Dura, K2DCD
Assistant Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net

Greg Sarratt, W4OZK
ARRL Southeastern Division Director

We encourage you to visit all the activities you can, learn more about
amateur radio emergency communications and meet the folks doing it.
Hope to see you there!

73,
Greg Sarratt, W4OZK
ARRL Southeastern Division Director

Andrea Hartlage, KG4IUM
ARRL Southeastern Division Vice-Director

http://www.southeastern.arrl.org

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ARRL Southeastern Division
Director: Greg Sarratt, W4OZK
w4ozk at arrl.org
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