Subj : Special Ham Radio Event
To   : Daryl Stout
From : Frank
Date : Thu Jul 07 2005 07:33 pm

  Re: Special Ham Radio Event
  By: Daryl Stout to All on Wed Jul 06 2005 06:20 pm

 >   The following information is from the Hurricane Watch Net (www.hwn.org)
 > website, as of 4pm Central Time (2100 UTC) July 6, 2005. While Dennis is
 > a tropical storm at this typing, it is expected to become a hurricane
 > later tonight or Thursday...and a category 3 hurricane by Friday, if not
 > sooner, with winds of 115 mph or higher.
 > 
 >   It is expected to hit somewhere along the Gulf Coast early next week,
 > but it is too soon at this time to make a precise forecast of where Dennis
 > will eventually make final landfall. The latest advisories on Dennis can
 > be found at the Tropical Prediction Center website (www.nhc.noaa.gov).
 > 
 > Daryl, N5VLZ
 > 
 > ***
 > 
 >   The Hurricane Watch Net plans to activate beginning at 9am EDT (1300 UTC)
 > Thursday morning for Hurricane Dennis, which is currently forecast to be a
 > Category 3 Hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale at landfall on Friday.
 > 
 >   Please help to spread the word to people in the affected area, while also
 > requesting any available reporting stations in the area to please come to
 > net frequency (14.325mhz) with their observed and/or measured weather data.
 > 
 >   During our net activation, Dennis should be skirting the northeast coast
 > of Jamaica, the southeast coast of Cuba, and the Cayman Islands. During
 > our activation on Friday, Dennis should be passing the Isle of Youth and
 > then make landfall somewhere along the southwest coast of Cuba.
 > 
 >   We will be requesting measured/observed ground truth data from the
 > affected area. Under direction of the National Hurricane Center, those may
 > be solicited from specific locations and/or with specific criterion
 > attached (such as people experiencing sustained winds in excess of 35
 > knots, or those with rapidly degrading conditions, etc.). Temperature and
 > dew point information is not needed.
 > 
 >   We remind those reporting stations to "please" do not report to us the
 > weather information reported on your local media. We are interested ONLY
 > in your personal observations, preferably measured by calibrated
 > instrumentation.
 > 
 >   Note: The above criteria may be changed without notice.
 > 
 >   Throughout this event, we remind everyone that we are also available to
 > provide backup communications facilities to official agencies such as
 > Emergency Operations Centers and Red Cross officials in the affected area.
 > We will also be interested to collect and report significant damage
 > assessment data back to FEMA officials stationed in the National Hurricane
 > Center.
 > 
 >   Please honor our request that you should not check in to the net, unless
 > specifically requested to do so. We will attempt to handle all
 > communications within the capabilities of our own members, and only when
 > required assistance is needed will we ask for your help.
 > 
 >   While our mission is specifically to provide storm related information
 > into and out of the storm, please understand we are not involved in Health
 > and Welfare traffic. That traffic will be handled by the SATERN net on
 > 14.265.00 MHz, whenever activated, as well as on their website of
 > www.satern.org.
 > 
 >   On the SATERN homepage, you will find a link for Health and Welfare
 > Information. Fill out that form, and they will get back with you as soon
 > as possible. We will likely be reporting other emergency frequencies to be
 > set up by local emergency management nets in the affected area. Please
 > monitor 14.325.00 MHz for that information as it is made available.
 > 
 >   As a final reminder, please monitor the hurricane watch net web site
 > (www.hwn.org) for storm related advisory updates, graphics displays, and
 > other data made available from the National Hurricane Center.
 > 
 >   Thanks in advance for your support and cooperation during this extremely
 > dangerous storm.
 > 
 > Sincerely,
 > Bobby Graves, KB5HAV
 > Assistant Net Manager
 > Hurricane Watch Net
 > 
 > 
 > 
   Interesting post...

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