[TVARC] Emergency Communications: Other Ham Nets Being Activated For Hurricane Florence

[Anthony Hackenberg]

Hi  Members of TVARC's Maillist,

Other amateur radio networks are also gearing up to activate as Hurricane
Florence makes its dangerous approach to the North & South Carolina
coastlines.  Thanks to Ken/AG6SV, Net Manager for The Salvation Army's Team
Emergency Network (SATERN), for compiling this brief overview of those
other nets which I am passing onto you.

You are welcome to MONITOR (*listen only* mode) any of the following
nets. However,
do *NOT* check into any of them, without first consulting their
rules/protocols (see their website URLs below).

Hurricane Watch Net (HWN):
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HWN is at a Level 3 Alert status. HWN plans to activate their Net at 1100
(ET) on Wednesday, 12 September using both 14.325 MHz and 7.268 MHz
simultaneously due to the Class 2 Geomagnetic storm forecasted to begin on
Monday.  [Reference/URL: http://www.hwn.org/]

Voice Over IP Weather / Hurricane Net (VoIPWX.net):
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The VoIP Hurricane Net will activate sometime late Wednesday evening or
early Thursday morning. [Reference/URL: http://voipwx.net/]

National Hurricane Center (WX4NHC):
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WX4NHC currently plans to activate from 1800 Hrs (Eastern) on Wednesday, 12
September through 1800 Hrs Friday, 14 September. That may change as
conditions warrant. [Reference/URL: http://w4ehw.fiu.edu/]

Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS):
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U.S. Army MARS in Region 4 (southeast U.S.) continues their internal
readiness and are monitoring the preparedness actions and activations of
the Hurricane Watch Net and SATERN. Regions 3 and 6 are in support of
Region 4 and prepared to monitor HWN and SATERN as well.
USAF MARS is doing the same as U.S. Army MARS. Additionally, they are
currently exercising their capabilities in Regions 1-4 to collect real-time
data (WXBOS, County or METAR and TAF reports).
There are no DoD requests for support at this time.

*CAVEAT: *Again, please remember you are welcome to *LISTEN* in on the
above ham emergency nets.  You are NOT to check-in (or interfere in any
way) with their operation.  ONLY check-in (or contribute to these nets) IF
your communication meets the net's standards and protocols as laid out in
the above references (websites/URLs).
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