WARN newsletter

[Michael Nie]

Greetings from WARN central!

Well, we are rapidly approaching severe weather season.  Our preparations 
are under way for the upcoming spring.
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Sharpen your Skills!

For all the Amateur Radio equipped spotters, which I suspect is most of
the 
readership of this list, we encourage you to attend a National Weather 
Service provided training session to keep your skills up.  For those of
you 
in the Cincinnati area, basically the 19 counties surrounding Cincinnati, 
WARN will be sponsoring just such a course on March 27, 1998 at the Red 
Cross in Blue Ash.  For more information, see our web page at 
http://www.warn.org.  It has a map, directions, talk-in frequencies and 
more.  Or, just direct any questions about the training to me at 
mailto:mnie at fuse.net.  If you can't make this session, additional training

opportunities are listed on the Wilmington NWS page.  A link is provided 
from our training page.  For those not in the Cincinnati area, contact
your 
local National Weather Service office, or your local Emergency Management 
Agency (Civil Defense) office.
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1998's first net

Our first official net occurred last night due to approaching severe 
weather.  As it turned out, the net was cancelled early because the
storms 
lost a lot of intensity before they entered our area of responsibility. 
 Thanks to all who participated.  Another message will be sent out to the 
list shortly explaining how the net is activated, and how it functions.
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What's up at WARN?

We are busy tuning up the equipment and our procedures for nets.  At the 
recent Great Lakes Convention in Cincinnati, we were able to obtain a new 
Yaesu FT-2500 VHF radio for use as our primary net radio.  This was made 
possible by the numerous membership renewals and the sale of an older 
packet radio that was no longer needed.  The Yaesu is installed and 
operational.  This replaces an older Kenwood secondary radio that was
being 
eaten up by intermod in the high RF environment.  The existing primary 
radio was moved to secondary service.  I have been informed that during
the 
net on 3/8/98, there was not a peep of intermod on or crosstalk between
our 
radios.  Looks like we were successful!

The N8NWS APRS packet station/WIDE digipeater has been moved to the new 
144.39 MHz frequency as have most other APRS operations in the Cincinnati 
and Dayton areas.  The goal of many APRSers was to have the new 144.39 
network fully functional before Dayton Hamvention time.

WARN is still looking for a desktop public safety type radio equipment 
console.  If you know of one of these laying around, please let us know. 
 We are also looking for a small functional cable ready television.  When 
we find one of these, we will have access to a direct Doppler radar link 
from WKRC-TV channel 12.  This would be very valuable to our net 
operations.  And, yes, we accept tax deductible corporate or individual 
donations.

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Tornado Safety Awareness Weeks Announced

The Kentucky net will be held on Tuesday, 3/10 at (exactly!) 10:17 am. 
Check-in's will be taken (callsign and county will be all that is
needed) from anywhere in the WARN area on 146.88-, but we will be looking 
mostly for stations in Kentucky.  We will try to monitor 147.255+.

The Indiana net will be held on Wednesday, 3/11 at about 1:30 pm. 
Check-in's will be taken (callsign and county, again) from anywhere in the

WARN area, but we will be looking mostly for stations in Indiana.  For 
stations west of the coverage of 146.88-, please go to 146.805- to check 
in.

The Ohio net will be held on Wednesday, 3/25 at (exactly!) 9:50 am. 
Check-in's will be taken (callsign and county...) from anywhere in the
WARN 
area on 146.88-, but we will be looking mostly for stations in Ohio.  We 
will try to monitor 146.655-.

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That's all for now.  As always, we welcome comments and suggestions. 
 Please direct any correspondence to one of the following:

mailto:mnie at fuse.net		Mike Nie	WARN Public Information
Officer
mailto:wb8mcx at juno.com	Dick Leffler	WARN President

  


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