Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (A) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Fri Dec 23 2022 00:40:21 Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2356, for Friday, December 23rd, 2022 Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2356, with a release date of Friday, December 23rd, 2022, to follow in 5-4-3-2-1. The following is a QST. Hams prep for severe winter weather in the US. Make plans for Ham Radio University -- and finally a Santa watch roundup and our annual Christmas card to you. All this and more, as Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2356, comes your way right now. ** BILLBOARD CART ** SKYWARN OPS PREP FOR SEVERE WEATHER SEASON JIM/ANCHOR: We begin this week with a report that acknowledges the severe weather now sweeping through much of the United States. For the radio volunteers of SKYWARN, there is no rest. Randy Sly, W4XJ, explains what comes next. RANDY: For SKYWARN Amateur Radio volunteers, there's no time off now that tornado and hurricane season is over. On December 10th, more than 1900 operators and 38 National Weather Service offices took part in a one-day operation called SKYWARN Recognition Day, or SRD, where stations contact as many of those offices as possible. Now, it's already time for winter weather reporting. In fact, Rob Macedo, KD1CY, one of the coordinators for SRD, didn’t even have time to finish compiling his reports before he was activated for a coastal storm last week that brought over 20" of snow in the Berkshire Mountain region of New England and rainfall of as much as 3 to 4.5" in southern New England. Ken Graham, director of the National Weather Service, who is also a ham radio operator with the callsign WX4KEG, sent a special video message to SKYWARN Recognition Day participants, thanking them for participating and for their involvement in SKYWARN reporting. Those reports, whether snow, tornado damage or other information, he said, have greatly helped the National Weather Service over the years. The link to the video message can be found in the text version of this report at ARNewline.org. This is Randy Sly, W4XJ. [for print only, do not read: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HME-JjlEL8] ** SPACE WEATHER CENTER TO HALT LOCAL MESSAGES JIM/ANCHOR: The United States government's Space Weather Prediction Center has proposed eliminating the recorded WWV geophysical alert message available from its local Colorado phone number, 303-497-3235. Callers to that number have been hearing the announcement about its discontinuation, which takes effect on January 15th, 2023. There are, however, numerous other ways to continue receiving this information. Robert Steenburgh, AD0IU, acting lead of the Space Weather Forecast Office, told Newsline that the messages are available via subscription service on their website under the Forecasts and Summaries category. He said subscribers can get these messages sent automatically every three hours when they are updated. The website appears in the text version of this week's newscast at arnewsline.org Rob also told Newsline that the recording is a duplicate of the message already available from WWV via telephone at (303) 499-7111 for WWV in Colorado, and (808) 335-4363 for WWVH in Hawaii at 18 minutes past every hour. He said the information is also available at the primary website of the center. That link also appears in the text version of this week's newscast. Comments on this change can be submitted to the Space Weather Prediction Center at the website spaceweather.gov under the feedback tab. [TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE MESSAGE: https://pss.swpc.noaa.gov ] [PRIMARY WEBSITE: https://www.spaceweather.gov/products/geophysical-alert-wwv-text ] (ROBERT STEENBURGH, AD0IU) --- SBBSecho 3.15-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (618:250/33) .