The following information was received from the ARRL Emergency
Management Director.
Good Morning everyone,
We are tracking Hurricane Hilary this morning along with you all in the
Southwest US.
For all: Please pass along to all your active hams this morning the
following from the National Hurricane Center and the Hurricane Watch
Net. The VOIP Hurricane net will be active this morning.
https://voipwx.net/ also supporting the National Hurricane Center.
This could be very important and the information received and passed to
the NHC helps them in their forecasting as well as painting a real
picture of the real time activity of the storm.
WX4NHC Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center –
Announcement
WX4NHC will be activated this Sunday at 8am EDT for Hurricane Hilary’s
possible landfall along the Mexican Baja peninsula and southern
California.
WX4NHC will be On-The-Air on the Hurricane Watch Net frequency 14.325
MHz and 7.268 MHz depending on propagation.
We will also be on VoIP Hurricane Net
(IRLP node 9219 / EchoLink WX-TALK Conference node 7203).
http://www.voipwx.net/
We will also be monitoring WinLink reports.
wx4nhc@winlink.org (subject line must contain //WL2K.)
WX4NHC On-line Hurricane report Form
Hurricane On-line Report Form (fiu.edu)
We also received the following from Bobby Graves with the hurricane
watch net in support of activity in southern California.
The information contained in this email is going to numerous amateur
radio nets, government and non-government agencies, as well as various
amateur radio news outlets.
Hello Everyone,
The Hurricane Watch Net will activate Sunday at 9:00 AM EDT (1300 UTC)
on both 14.325.00 MHz and 7.268.00 MHz for Hurricane Hilary. As of
Advisory #13 issued at 1500 UTC, Hilary is expected to make landfall
near Bahía Tortugas, Cedros Island, and El Rosario. We will remain
active until our services are no longer required. This system does have
a good chance of crossing into California as a Tropical Storm. If so, it
will be the first Tropical Storm to hit California since 1939.
During any Net activation, we have operators who speak both English and
Spanish and we look for reporting stations who can provide us with any
measured or estimated weather information that we can relay directly to
the forecasters at National Hurricane Center in Miami. Such weather
information we look for is maximum sustained winds, winds gusts, wind
direction, barometric pressure, rainfall amount – how much over
x-amount of time, storm surge, and damage. Should you have any outgoing
Health and Welfare Traffic before, during, or after this event, we are
happy to assist as we work closely with the Salvation Army Team
Emergency Radio Network (SATERN).
As always, we are available to provide backup communications to official
agencies such as Emergency Operations Centers, Red Cross officials, and
Storm Shelters in the affected area. We also collect and forward
significant damage assessment data to government and non-government
officials requesting such.
We greatly appreciate the daily users and various nets who use 14.325.00
MHz and 7.268.00 MHz for allowing us a clear frequency. It certainly
makes our job easier and I know those in the affected area appreciate it
as well.
73 & God Bless,
Bobby
ARRL Western Washington Section
Section Manager: Monte L Simpson, W7FF
w7ff@arrl.org