Monthly Archives: February 2009

National Weather Service Open House

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Sorry for the late post busy Friday and Saturday with all the stormy weather.

The National Weather Service is hosting an open house today from 10am – 5pm CST.
ALERT will be at the Birmingham office answering questions about us and our Amateur Radio Station that is setup in their office. Come by and say hello!!

ALERT Meeting – February 10th, 2009

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The next ALERT meeting will be at the National Weather Service at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009.

If you are not able to make the meeting in person try the teleconference.

Every effort will be made to have teleconferencing available for each meeting, to participate:
Please call: (877) 951-0997 and enter participants code 741083.

Spotter Chat Update

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Special Note: as of February 2, 2009

Please add bmxspotterchat@muc.appriss.com as a buddy for continued access to the chat room.

Adding chat to your buddy list.

  • Click Buddies
  • Click Add Buddy
  • Enter this in Buddy username: bmxspotterchat@muc.appriss.com
  • Click Buddies
  • Click Add Chat
  • Account be sure your XMPP acct from above shows here
  • Room: bmxspotterchat
  • Server: muc.appriss.com
  • Check to ensure that your handle is as above (e.g. brown-west_alabaster, porter-jasper, david-livingston)
  • Alias: Arbitrary. You can change this if you want to see something other than bmxspotterchat@muc.appriss.com for the name (try “bmxspotterchat”).
  • Select Add
  • Group: You might see this if the chat client lets you add room links to your list. In this case, this is the buddy group it will be listed under.
  • double-click the link your buddy list to the room. You should see iembot as one of the people in the room, and, if your chat client supports it, backlogged reports from the iembot.