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National Weather Service asks for your storm photos and Tweets
For people interested in learning the finer points of storm reporting, Beaman said they are encouraged to take part in annual SKYWARN Spotter Training courses. SKYWARN is a voluntary program developed by each individual NWS office, during which …
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HAM Radio: The unseen eyes and ears of emergency services
“We also encourage everybody to get involved in the Sky Warn program and the HAM radio club and the Tarleton Planetarium co-sponsor the training for that program that's held in the planetarium each year. Somebody from the Fort Worth office of the …
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Weather alerts have come a long way in 50 years
The Howard County/Kokomo Emergency Management Agency also helps keep people in the loop when it comes to bad weather by hosting a SkyWarn class every March. SkyWarn is a volunteer program with nearly 290,000 trained severe-weather spotters.
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Before spring storm season, Skywarn joins forecasters to host severe weather …
The National Weather Service, including the Skywarn organization of Kent and Ottawa counties, are scheduled to conduct the first weather spotter training session of the year on Thursday, Feb. 19. It is slated to begin at 7 p.m. at the Jenison Center …
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In comments filed November 5, the ARRL has recommended that the FCC continue to provide paper license documents to Amateur Radio licensees who want them. The League’s remarks were in response to an FCC Public Notice (in WT Docket 14-161) that proposed to cease the routine issuance of hard-copy license documents to all Wireless Service licensees, including radio amateurs. While having a paper li…
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In comments filed in response to an AT&T Mobility Petition for Rule Making seeking a new air-to-ground communications system on 2.3 GHz Wireless Communications Service (WCS) spectrum, the ARRL has once again asked the FCC to elevate the Amateur Service allocation at 2300 to 2305 MHz from secondary to primary. The Petition (RM-11731) asked the Commission to authorize an LTE-based in-flight conne…
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The ARRL has told the FCC that a Petition for Rule Making (RM-11715) from Mimosa Networks to permit unlicensed Part 15 wireless broadband services in the 10.0-10.5 GHz band is “fatally flawed” and should be dismissed. Mimosa filed the Petition in May 2013, and the FCC invited public comments last month. The Petition includes a band plan for 10.0 to 10.5 GHz that would cede Amateur Radio and Ama…
American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources