Hi everyone, I hope this finds everyone doing well. Hopefully you were able to attend the 2013 Birminghamfest this weekend. The hamfest was well attended and we were treated to a great Skywarn forum on Dual-Pol Radar given by NWS Warning Coordination Meteorologist John DeBlock. It was good to see many of our members, and reacquaint with old friends, including one who I haven’t seen since the 9th grade, and good to put faces with the voices I hear on the Sunday Night Net. Revisiting the Sunday Night Net for a second, it’s interesting to remember back in 2001 when I started as net manager and we usually had three check-ins. Now we average 40 to 50 on a consistent basis. Over the years the net has had very few complaints. The most frequent complaint is that the net runs too slowly. “Could you speed it up a little?” Of course I’ve also been told it’s too fast, people use wrong phonetics, no phonetics, “tell folk not to check in if they have weak signals”, so forth and so on. I’ve heard it all. As Net ManagerI Continue reading →