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Special Tar Heel Emergency Net, Tuesday July 22 Hurricane Season 2003 - Special Tar Heel Emergency NetThe ARES Section Emergency Coordinator Bernie Nobles, WA4MOK, and the TAR HEEL EMERGENCY NET (THEN) Manager Claude Chaffin, K4CWZ, have granted permission to conduct a special THEN session on Tuesday, July 22nd at 1930 EDT. Jeff Orrock, the Warning Coordination Meteorologist for the National Weather Service (NWS) in Raleigh, will present a training presentation entitled "Hurricane Season 2003" for the benefit of amateur radio operators involved in providing emergency communications. Jeff is an experienced meteorologist who has served in eastern NC and has a talent for presenting scientific information in a way that non-meteorologists can understand. Also on linked repeaters... Danny Hampton, K4ITL, has approved the use of the Piedmont Coastal Repeater Network 146.88 repeater for this presentation. Use of the 146.88 repeater will allow us to originate the presentation form the North Carolina Emergency Management (NCEM) Emergency Operations Center (EOC) amateur radio station, NC4EO, and Tom Brown, N4TAB will provide a relay to the THEN on 3923 LSB. There are plans to link repeaters to enable many operators and listeners across the state to participate in this training net. The effort to coordinate the repeater linking includes several repeater systems. A coordinated effort will be made to account for individual operators checking into local repeaters before they are linked for the presentation. If there are any questions about the repeater linking please contact Tom or myself. This special THEN is designed to provide training information from the NWS and an exercise in linking repeaters. I would like to thank you in advance for your support and cooperation for this net. I am looking forward to see just how many people we can reach using amateur radio. Any additional details or information will be sent to this list as they becomes available. John Guerriero KG4HDT ARES EC for NCEM Tom Brown N4TAB ARES EC for Wake Co. |