From colstonl at gmail.com Sun Nov 15 14:00:00 2020 From: colstonl at gmail.com (Lloyd Colston) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2020 13:00:00 -0600 Subject: [Skywarn] Skywarn Recognition Day Message-ID: SDR+subscribe at groups.Io is the email address to subscribe to an announcement list for DRD. Skywarn Recognition Day is conducted each year to recognize the contributions Skywarn Spotters make toward fulfilling the NWS mission to save lives. Skywarn Recognition Day 2020 will be different this year and will include a lot of Social Media elements. This is open to all Skywarn Spotters. You don't need to be an amateur radio operator to participate; however there will be several presentations on Amateur Radio Operations during the event. * Want to learn more? Check out the Skywarn Recognition Day webpage ([ http://ow.ly/vDDq50CjY35](http://ow.ly/vDDq50CjY35)) * Registration is free and there is NO OBLIGATION. You can participate at whatever level you feel most comfortable. Registration online and open now - ([http://ow.ly/IcTJ50CjY34](http://ow.ly/IcTJ50CjY34) ) * Interested in joining the Skywarn Recognition Day Facebook Group - join us here: [http://ow.ly/cZiI50CjY36](http://ow.ly/cZiI50CjY36) * Not a trained Skywarn Spotter? Consider completing the MetEd Spotter Course - it's online and FREE! ([ http://ow.ly/XTeA50CjY37](http://ow.ly/XTeA50CjY37)) * Interested in Amateur Radio? Visit the ARRL webpage to find out more! ([ http://ow.ly/4FJy50CjY33](http://ow.ly/4FJy50CjY33)) Please be sure to register - this will give us a complete list of who is participating this year. -- Lloyd Colston KC5FM Hamshack Hotline 50052 From colstonl at gmail.com Sun Nov 15 17:08:44 2020 From: colstonl at gmail.com (Lloyd Colston) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2020 16:08:44 -0600 Subject: [Skywarn] Skywarn recognition day Message-ID: The links in my previous email regarding the subject are not working Please search Facebook for the resource there. Lloyd -- Lloyd Colston KC5FM Hamshack Hotline 50052 From colstonl at gmail.com Mon Nov 16 23:44:02 2020 From: colstonl at gmail.com (Lloyd Colston) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 22:44:02 -0600 Subject: [Skywarn] SRD Message-ID: https://www.facebook.com/groups/skywarnrecognitionday/?ref=share is the Facebook page for SRD. -- Lloyd Colston KC5FM Hamshack Hotline 50052 From kc5fm at juno.com Mon Nov 23 12:45:46 2020 From: kc5fm at juno.com (Lloyd Colston) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 11:45:46 -0600 Subject: [Skywarn] Fwd: Skywarn Recognition Day Email List - Subscription In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Michael Lewis - NOAA Federal Date: Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 11:43 Subject: Skywarn Recognition Day Email List - Subscription To: To Register for SRD email notifications, send an e-mail to the following: SRD+subscribe at groups.io *==* *Michael S. Lewis* Warning Coordination Meteorologist NWS Northern Indiana *Currently Teleworking M-F* *Google Hangout/Meet Office Hours* : *Daily*: 10:30 to Noon and 1:30 to 3:00 (EDT) *Cell*: (574) 376-5804 [image: https://www.weather.gov/iwx] [image: https://www.weather.gov/wrn/ambassadors] [image: https://www.weather.gov/StormReady] Proudly Serving 37 Counties in Northern Indiana, Southwest Lower Michigan and Northwest Ohio -- Lloyd Colston KC5FM Hamshack Hotline 50052 From wx0net1 at gmail.com Thu Nov 26 09:06:38 2020 From: wx0net1 at gmail.com (Billy Fanska) Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 08:06:38 -0600 Subject: [Skywarn] Introduction Message-ID: Hello, This is WX0NET, aka Billy Fanska. My history in spotting began in 1958 as being involved in the tornado that struck El Dorado, Kansas. At only 2 years old, I still have memories of this event. My father was a police officer in El Dorado for over 30 years. I used to go spotting with him on the bridge over Highway 54 on Highway 196 just to the West of El Dorado. This was before Skywarn was conceived. My travels around the world as a US Marine have put me in the middle of sand storms in the Middle East, hurricanes on the East Coast, earthquakes on the West Coast and super typhoons in the Far East. I've been involved in fighting prairie fires and mitigating actions for tsunami's. My current employment as an oil worker has allowed me to be trained as a Hazmat first responder, a Board Certified Industrial Firefighter, and keeps my CPR/First Aid training current. Additionally, I have completed several Skywarn seminars, MetEd courses, FEMA Courses, ARRL Courses, Skywarn Spotter.org courses, and several other FEMA, NIMS, and weather related courses. I am a General Class Amateur Radio Operator (HAM) and run mobile all the time. My latest initiative as a Weather Ready Ambassador is to establish a seamless communication network between Kansas and Oklahoma where we share an abundance of severe weather. The network is currently known as the Kan-Okla ARES and Weather Net.This radio net also strives to improve emergency communications in rural areas between Tulsa, Oklahoma City, and Wichita, Kansas, and to recruit Skywarn Spotters and ARES members. We welcome any Amateur Radio Operator who shares the vision of helping our rural communities, and anyone who would like to become a HAM Emergency Radio Operator (HERO!!!). Billy Fanska Fanska Farms 3873 NE 4th El Dorado, Ks 67042 Tel: 316-323-9326 Email: WX0NET1 at gmail.com Call Sign: WX0NET/VE NWS Spotter #: BU 103 Spotter Network #:92487 https://www.weather.gov/skywarn/ https://www.weather.gov/wrn/ From colstonl at gmail.com Fri Nov 27 09:51:22 2020 From: colstonl at gmail.com (Lloyd Colston) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 08:51:22 -0600 Subject: [Skywarn] Fwd: SKYWARN Recognition Day (SRD) 2020 and VoIP Operations on EchoLink Node: 7203 *WX-TALK*/IRLP 9219 Update #1 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: rob macedo - Apologies for those that have received this email multiple times. Its hard to believe but another SKYWARN Recognition Day is upon us. My sincerest apologies that this note is coming so late. With the changes in SRD due to the inability of volunteers being able to go into NWS offices due to COVID causing a revamp of this year's event with NWS along with several critical work projects, this first note has been delayed but I'm confident we can get the schedule pulled together for this year. The following is the first in the series of updates on SKYWARN Recognition Day (SRD) 2020 and Echolink/IRLP operations. For 2020 SRD, understanding any NWS offices that are on the air will most likely be via NWS employees, we wanted to give everyone on this distribution first choice on the various time slots. You can operate with your personal call-sign as NWS coordinator or some may elect to use the NWS Call-Sign and state they are portable. WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio station at the National Hurricane Center, did that this year with their operations during hurricane activations. EchoLink and IRLP are just a couple of modes people can utilize to contact NWS offices during SKYWARN Recognition Day. Many NWS offices will be on 2 Meters, 440 MHz, HF and other VHF/UHF bands. Additional details on SKYWARN Recognition Day including a registration link opened up to all Amateurs given the new SRD format can be found via the following link: https://www.weather.gov/crh/skywarnrecognition Also, there is a SRD Facebook group created. Those with Facebook can join it at the following link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/skywarnrecognitionday For 2020, the EchoLink *WX_TALK* Node: 7203/IRLP reflector 9219 system will be scheduling time for NWS offices or SKYWARN Coordinators with specific NWS office time slots to act as a net control to make contacts with spotters that are on the system. If a NWS office/SKYWARN Coordinator runs out of contacts and there are other NWS offices/SKYWARN Coordinators on the system, the NWS office acting as net control can turn it over to a different NWS office or SKYWARN Coordinator to act as a net control on the system at their discretion. We'd like to ask NWS offices/SKYWARN Coordinators to do their best to adhere to the schedule. Sometimes this is difficult due to the number of contacts received by NWS offices/SKYWARN Coordinators. We ask for everyone's patience and work cooperatively to respect the time slot schedule. Below is the 2019 SRD Schedule with the time slots from last year along with one confirmation for 2020. We would like to know if the remaining NWS offices or SKYWARN Coordinators with that office would like to keep their time slot or change time slots and then what call-sign should be listed on the schedule. See the list below: Time in UTC NWS Office Call-Sign 0000-0100: N0NWS 0100-0200: WX1GYX 0200-0300: WX7SLC 0300-0400: WX9GRB 0400-0500: WX1BOX 0500-0600: WX9LOT 0600-0700: WX4HUN (Confirmed time slot from last year) 0700-0800: WX8APX 0800-0900: WX8APX 0900-1000: WX7SLC 1000-1100: WX4HUN 1100-1200: WX7SLC 1200-1300: W7NWS 1300-1400: Open 1400-1500: WX1AW 1500-1600: WX1BOX 1600-1700: WX4NC 1700-1800: Open 1800-1900: WX6LOX 1900-2000: K0MPX 2000-2100: Open 2100-2300: WX4NHC 2300-2400: WX6NWS There will be other conference systems utilized for SKYWARN Recognition Day. They are as follows: The New England Reflector Gateway System will be utilized by SKYWARN Coordinators from New England from 0000-0500 UTC and 1200-2400 UTC. The New England Gateway system is on EchoLink Conference server *NEW-ENG3* Node: 9123, IRLP reflector 9123. If other SKYWARN Coordinators and NWS offices would like to join the system, they are welcome to do so and participants in SKYWARN Recognition Day can also use that system to make contact with various NWS offices. This is a great place to move off the *WX_TALK* Node: 7203/IRLP 9219 system after your scheduled time if other Amateurs or NWS offices wish to make contact with you. Also, the Western Reflector will be having NWS offices calling CQ as in past years and have multiple reflector channels and Echolink conferences available. There is reflector 9250/Echolink Conference *HI-GATE* node: 357564, IRLP 9251 and the *WORLD* Echolink Conference node: 479886, IRLP 9257/*DCF-ARC* Echolink Conference node: 336037 and IRLP 9258/EchoLink Conference *NV-GATE* Node: 152566 open for NWS offices. Please contact Kent-W7AOR for additional information on the Western Reflector. A few technical reminders for folks interested in making contacts with the NWS Forecast Offices on the *WX-TALK* Node: 7203/IRLP 9219 and New England Reflector Gateway IRLP 9123/*NEW-ENG3* Echolink Node: 9123 systems: -The system allows both EchoLink and IRLP connections. For EchoLink users, you connect to the *WX-TALK* Node: 7203 conference system. For IRLP users, you would connect to IRLP reflector 9219. It is possible we will have DMR/D-STAR and other modes directly linked on the system. This will be updated in the next few days regarding that aspect. -If you are using EchoLink, the RF node or PC that you?re using must have EchoLink conferencing disabled. If it is not disabled, the system will automatically kick the node or PC off of the system. The reason this occurs is to prevent unintentional interference from a conferencing station that may not know the node is connected somewhere else. This will keep traffic moving on the net and reduce interference considerably. For more information on VoIP Technical Configuration Tips, please go to our web site at http://www.voipwx.net where we have a link to that information on the main menu of the web site. This announcement will also be on the web site. We are looking forward to another fun SKYWARN Recognition Day on the *WX-TALK* Node: 7203/IRLP reflector 9219 system, New England Reflector Gateway system and Western Reflector system. Thanks to all for their support! 73,Rob-KD1CY. Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net ARES SKYWARN Coordinator for NWS Boston/Norton Massachusetts Eastern Massachusetts ARES Section Emergency Coordinator -- Lloyd Colston KC5FM Hamshack Hotline 50052