Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of Tom Low K5TKL  SK. Tom was our Treasurer for a while and was always ready with a volunteering hand, no matter what the event was.

RACES members: SKYWARN School will be 20 Jan 01 at the Richland High School auditorium, located at 5201 Holiday Lane, North Richland Hills, TX. The entrance to the auditorium is located on the west side of the school, and class will begin around 8 A.M.

SKYWARN net guidelines are listed here and will remain listed here for the benefit of new RACES members and as a refresher for those who need it. Just a reminder, these guidelines can easily be adapted to any type of net. There won't always be the three conditions. But making reports as brief and to the point as possible and giving your location if necessary will greatly contribute to the net running smoothly. Before checking in to a SKYWARN net, LISTEN to see what condition it is in. There are 3. GREEN , YELLOW, RED. Condition GREEN means there is nothing severe in Tarrant County at the moment. While "blue-sky reports are not really necessary this is when you can make them. What is a "blue-sky report"? That is when the net controller asks if there is anyone experiencing any severe weather in Tarrant County and someone replies with something on the order of: "XX5XXX I'm in Mapsco XXX and we don't have anything going on right now." This is not what net control was looking for. Listen to what net control is saying. Condition YELLOW means that there has been heavy rain, small hail reported. In other words, severe weather is occurring in Tarrant County. NO BLUE-SKY REPORTS. Condition RED means that a wall cloud/tornado has been spotted, a tornado warning has been issued for Tarrant County, large hail, damaging winds, etc. In short, weather that has an immediate threat to life and property is occurring in Tarrant County. Again, LISTEN to net control. When the 146.940 repeater is in RACES mode, it will have a courtesy tone of the letter 'R' in Morse code .-. Also, by helping to keep the net free of unnecessary traffic you will be helping the guys at the weather service office. Remember, they are monitoring several radios up there. If they hear a bunch of nonsense, they are more likely to "tune us out". (No pun intended) They are usually monitoring several counties at once so the less radio traffic they have to listen to, the better off we all are. A SKYWARN net is not the place to say "Hello how are you doing. I haven't talked to you in a long time" etc.
 
 

Last Updated 23 Sep 00

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