NOTIFICATION OF A SPECIAL AMATEUR RADIO INFORMATION/TRAINING NET

The 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, has agreed to provide an training presentation entitled "Hurricane Season 2003" for the benefit of amateur radio operators involved in providing emergency communications. Jeff is an experienced meteorologist that has served in eastern NC and has a talent for presenting scientific information in a way that non-meteorologists can understand.

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 as many operators and listeners across the state to participate in this training net. The effort to coordinate the repeater linking includes several repeater systems across the state. 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. If there are any questions or comments please send email or call Tom or myself, our contact information is listed below.

John Guerriero KG4HDT
ARES EC for NCEM
919 605 0629 Cell
919 266 7687 Home
919 231 8000 Work

Tom Brown N4TAB
ARES EC for Wake Co.
919-528-3104 Home
919-556-8477 Work
919-971-3100 Cellular

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