[Skywarn] Ham Radio nets WAS Re: Tips WAS Re: email sent to skywarn

[Lloyd Colston]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Joshua Gould, KC8EQA <kc8eqa at gmail.com>wrote:

> Rather than calling your local WFO, if you could locate the skywarn net,
> couldn't you relay information to them?  Just asking because I bounce
> between the Wilmington office and the Charleston office...  I have every
> net frequency for all 5 nets programmed into my radios so I can report if
> necessary.
>

I would, and I have, IF there is a Skywarn net operational.

For example, the last time I was at FEMA training, if I had my handheld at
all, there was no net operational.  I sent the report to Sterling on NWS
chat.  I have also just called them.  Had I not thought to get those
"hailing channels" open, I could have called my local office for relay.
 That is useful in the unlikely event that I am traveling and don't know
which weather service office covers the turf.

Then there is the issue of local SKYWARN net control operators not knowing
what I know.  I have observed times when the local NCS did not want to take
my report because I was not in "their" system.

THEN there's the issue that, just as everyone on this is list not a Ham
Radio Operator, not everyone in Skywarn is a ham.

Just as I expect to have three ways to get warnings from the Weather
Service, I expect to have three ways to get information to them.

Hope that helps.

73




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