[Skywarn] K4ITL receives Mark Trail Award

[Greg Williams]

>From the SERA Journal:

Danny Hampton, K4ITL, received NOAA's Mark Trail Award, presented for
his support of NOAA Weather/All Hazards Radio.

Danny is known in the amateur radio community for his leadership in
the Piedmont-Coastal Repeater Network (PCRN) and his many outstanding
wide-coverage repeaters around the Carolinas.  He used his
construction skills and tower contracts to build and find sites for
NOAA Weather Radio transmitters in Raleigh and Lumberton, NC,
providing coverage to areas where existing signals were weak or
non-existent.

The Mark Trail Award is most commonly awarded to people who spearhead
projects to get receivers into schools, nursing homes, and other
public places.  Danny's contribution of several transmitters is
fairly unique.  Many PCRN repeaters are also SKYWARN hubs.

The National Weather Service has more than 900 transmitters on the
air in the United States, but there are still holes in coverage,
especially considering the limited antennas in use for most of the
receivers.  Funding for new transmitters is limited and slow.  The
Raleigh weather service has been trying to improve it's coverage for
years, and thanks to Danny, are now able to get their broadcasts to
more residents throughout their region.

A picture of Danny Hampton is on the front page of this quarter's
issue of the SouthEastern Repeater Association's SERA Journal.  The
cover photo (which can be viewed at http://www.sera.org/journal.html)
shows Danny pointing to one of his transmitter locations.  If you
look at the image you may note that Danny's eyes are closed.  

That's because Danny has been blind since birth.  



Webmail Provided by Lock-Net Internet Services: www.lock-net.com