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Amateur Radio Repeaters |
2 Meters
146.775
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PL 103.5
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444.675
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| Weekly
Area Amateur Radio Nets |
Saturday
9:00pm
JARS Saturday Night Amateur Radio
Net
ARRL
Newsline 2 meters
146.775 (-)
PL 103.5
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Sunday
9:00pm
N9MAF
Sunday Night Amateur Radio Net
2 meters
146.805 (-)
PL 94.8
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Monday
8:30pm
W9VEY
Amateur Radio Memorial Net
2 meters
146.820 (-)
PL "None"
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Thursday
8:30pm
AB9KT
Thursday
Night Amateur Radio Net
2 meters
146.685 (-)
PL 94.8
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| Skywarn
Program |
 Skywarn
is the National
Weather Service (NWS) program of trained volunteer severe
weather spotters. Skywarn
volunteers support their local community and government by providing
the NWS
with timely and accurate severe weather reports. These reports, when
integrated with modern NWS technology, are used to inform
communities of the proper actions to take as severe weather threatens.
Skywarn, formed in the early 1970's, has historically provided critical
severe weather information to the NWS
in time to get the appropriate warnings issued . Thus the key focus of
the Skywarn program is to save lives and property through the use of
the observations and reports of trained volunteers.
Despite the elaborate radar and forecasting equipment at the National
Weather Service,
they are only able to determine the potential for severe weather. They
rely on reports from the public and law enforcement personnel and the
actual severe weather.
Accurate and reliable information from the general public is difficult
to obtain. Severe weather is complicated and confusing. The NWS
has found that only regular training of weather spotters improves the
quality of information we receive. The National
Weather Service (NWS) collaborates with Amateur Radio
organizations and others to put together training programs. The NWS
brings its weather knowledge, the Amateur Radio Service brings its
expertise in emergency
communications, and together they work with local government
and the Red
Cross.
The Amateur Radio operator's participation in the Skywarn program is formally
acknowledged and encouraged in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
between the American
Radio Relay League (ARRL) and the NWS.
This agreement indicates that ARRL will encourage its local
volunteer groups operating as the Ameteur Radio Emergency Services (ARES)
to provide the NWS with spotters and
communicators as requested by the NWS
during times of severe weather.
Many civil disasters are the direct result of severe weather and/or are
exacerbated by severe weather. Accordingly, the NWS
may utilize the Skywarn
Amateur Radio operators not only to obtain and disseminate severe
weather observations and warnings, but may also use them to maintain
close coordination with the Red Cross and Emergency Managers
from local government entities under ARES or Radio
Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES).
RACES is organization of volunteer
Amateur Radio operators trained in emergency communications and
severe weather spotting. Authorized and regulated by the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), RACES
provides essential communications and warning links for state and local
governments during emergencies. The importance of this additional role
for Skywarn was demonstrated during
the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew in August of 1992. |
| Watch this Amateur Radio
Operator in action while, weather spotting! |
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Macoupin / Christian |
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| Weather
Spotters |
| Severe weather spotters provide
critical information to their communities and NWS forecasters during
hazardous weather events. Anyone with an interest is welcome to attend
a spotter class. There are no fees - only 2 to 3 hours of your time!
For more information
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Americans
live in the most severe weather-prone country on Earth. Each year,
Americans cope with an average of 10,000 thunderstorms, 5,000 floods,
1,000 tornadoes, as well as an average of 6 deadly hurricanes.
Potentially deadly weather impacts every American. Communities can now
rely on the National Weather Service’s StormReady® program to help them
guard against the ravages of Mother Nature.
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