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Weather Spotter Training

Weather Spotter Training
Curious about severe weather? Want to help the National Weather Service by submitting severe weather reports? Come to the Skywarn Weather Spotter training Feb. 1 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Kyle Fire Station at 210 W. Monroe St. Classes are free and …
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Want to be a spotter for the weather service? Skywarn class offered in CNY
A tornado destroyed three homes and killed four people last July in Madison County. The National Weather Service is offering classes for weather spotters to report severe weather such as tornadoes. (Lauren Long | llong@syracuse.com). Print Email.
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Watch Out Storms Ahead! Owlie Skywarn’s Weather Book

Watch Out Storms Ahead! Owlie Skywarn’s Weather Book

Watch Out Storms Ahead! Owlie Skywarn's Weather Book

used book, childrens reference, storms, weather

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National Weather Service asks for your storm photos and Tweets

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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Midland WR-120 Weather Radio With Custom Antenna Instructions

This video is a brief review of the Midland WR-120 weather radio. It also contains instructions on how to build an antenna for it that is custom tuned for the NOAA weather frequencies using household items.

The Gray-Hoverman is a fantastic DTV antenna design that is easily made in less than an hour with materials around the house. Two elementary school kids show how easy and fun! it is to learn a little about radio by making a DTV antenna at home.

Learning through Making!

Naomi and Noah Miller make a new antenna for their grandmother to replace a store-bought antenna that wasn’t working so well. The project demonstrates how a simple antenna project can be a vehicle for learning alot about the basics of wireless engineering through discussions of the kinds of problems some viewers have faced transitioning to DTV. In a companion video, Naomi and Noah’s dad talk about some of the engineering basics that help us understand how to solve some of Grandma’s DTV reception problems. Projects like this one can introduce otherwise daunting technical discussions in a simple and easy to understand way.
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The SkyWarn Network- Severe Weather Talk

Discussions about an active Severe Thunderstorm Warning (indicated by the active SVR scroll).
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The Old Man: Rotten Weather Relays

In the early years of the ARRL, co-founder and first President Hiram Percy Maxim occasionally penned editorials in QST magazine using the pseudonym “The Old Man.” These “rants” became legendary. As part of the ARRL Centennial celebration, we have been re-publishing a number of The Old Man’s observations.

Rotten Weather Relays (originally published in the April 1920 QST)

By The Old Man

It certainly…

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SKYWARN Volunteers Muster as Severe Weather, Tornado Hit Southern New England

When severe weather erupted in Southern New England on July 27 and 28, SKYWARN volunteers went on alert to help forecasters track conditions and, afterward, to assist authorities with assessing the damage. A super-cell storm system organized over northern Norfolk County, Massachusetts, on the morning of July 28 and raced through portions of northeastern Massachusetts, causing wind damage in sec…

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ICOM M802 Weather Fax download with Airmail

Downloading weather fax data with my Icom IC-M802 SSB radio underway.
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Stormy Weather May Force Retreat of Mellish Reef VK9MT DXpedition Team

Update from VK9MT @ 1130 UTC 2014-04-04:

1. The winds continue to be very strong.
2. We experienced antenna damage and are reassessing the antenna situation, we have alternatives.
3. We are running 4 stations tonight due to antenna damage.
4. The generators and radios are doing well.
5. The KPA-500 power amplifiers are doing well.
6. The operating tents are holding up well, but the break tent is dama…

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NOAA 19 weather satellite october 5th 2012

NOAA 19 weather satellite october 5th 2012

NOAA 19 weather satellite heard on october 5th 2012 on 137.100 Mhz with Icom IC R8500 using computer control and ham radio deluxe software.
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How to get and print your Ham Radio Nation member certificate.

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Ham radio club to host severe weather seminar – In-Forum

Ham radio club to host severe weather seminar
In-Forum
Ham radio club to host severe weather seminar. FARGO – The Red River Amateur Radio Club will host a Skywarn seminar from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. April 1 at the Fargo Public Safety Building, 4630 15th Ave. N. By: Forum staff reports, INFORUM. FARGO – The …

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Gqrx receiving NOAA-15 weather satellite

Check out these RTL-SDR images:

Gqrx receiving NOAA-15 weather satellite

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Gqrx SDR receiving NOAA-15 APT transmission using the EzCAP eztv666 RTL-SDR and a handheld ArrowII antenna.

Gqrx 2.2 RC on Mac OS X

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Testing Gqrx 2.2 release candidate on Mac OS X using an RTL-SDR dongle

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ARRL Headquarters Closing Early on Thursday Due to Weather

ARRL Headquarters in Newington, Connecticut will close at 12:30 PM on Thursday, February 13 due to weather conditions.

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Skywarn Weather Training

A program by the National Weather Service allows community members to use their passion for the good of the public. Katelyn Baer reporting.

Just a quick note, I took a lot of what I said from the SKYWARN website to give an idea of how much of an impact you can have but from personal experience it…
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Special Weather Statement: The NWS in Sterling, VA Activated Skywarn Amateur Radio Network 9-8-12

Special Weather Statement for the Sterling, VA CWA. The National Weather Service in Sterling, Virginia has Activated the Skywarn Amateur Weather Radio Networ…

Skywarn spotter class for 2010. Part 5. IMPORTANT: Watching this video does not certify you as a Skywarn spotter! You must attend a class in person.
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NWS Lubbock SKYWARN Training (Part 1 of 5) – Severe Weather Climatology

In this first module, we discuss severe weather climatology on both a national and local scale.

The ATT guy parked behind me to use my Sprint 4g internet because there sites went down lmao!!!!!!

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NOAA 18 Weather Satellite Reception With Homemade QFH Antenna In Scotland

NOAA 18 Weather Satellite Reception With Homemade QFH Antenna In Scotland Received on 21st June 2011.
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The Weather Channel to Begin Naming Winter Storms

Beginning this winter, The Weather Channel will begin naming what it calls “noteworthy winter storms.” As The Weather Channel explained on its website, “[a] storm with a name is easier to follow, which will mean fewer surprises and more preparation. In addition to providing information about significant winter storms by referring to them by name, the name itself will make communication and info…

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Homemade Ham Radio and Weather Satellite Antenna

Homemade satellite radio amateur and weather tracking antenna. Satellite antenna uses a PC with the Satcom application to track satellites as they pass. System took about 7 months to build and was made totally from discrete parts and supplies. Frame was welded from 1″ raw steel tube stock.
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Tropical Storm Ernesto Heads Toward Yucatán; WX4NHC, VoIP Weather Net and Hurricane Watch Net Activated

As Tropical Storm Ernesto barrels toward Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, forecasters have issued a hurricane warning for the entire coast of Belize and from Chetumal to Punta Allen on the East Coast of the Yucatán Peninsula. Ernesto is expected to reach hurricane strength before it reaches the Yucatan sometime later tonight. Radio amateurs with WX4NHC — the Amateur Radio station at the National Hu…

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Surfin’: Getting Weather Better

By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor

This week, Surfin’ finds out which way the wind blows — and which way the propagation flows — at the revamped National Weather Service website.

As hams, we seem to be more interested in the weather than average people. Besides wanting to know what’s falling out of the sky and when, we follow the weather because it affects radio propagation in both a n…

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