The Birmingham Alabama, National Weather Service Forecast Office will be participating in the 2007 SKYWARN Recognition Day. This event started by the National Weather Service and the American Radio Relay League, celebrates contributions to public safety made by volunteer SKYWARN participants. NWS offices frequently acquire real time information from radio equipped weather spotters — especially during periods of severe or adverse weather. These spotters provide valuable ground truth reports for phenomena such as hail, high winds, tornadoes, flash flooding, and snow fall reports. Those reports are used by our staff to prepare and verify statements and warnings
During this event, SKYWARN operators at NWS offices around the nation make contact with amateur radio operators nationally and around the world. Contact will be attempted with as many participating NWS offices as possible via amateur radio. We will operate under our call sign – K4NWS.
This event takes place the first Saturday of December for 24 hours from 0000-2400Z (Universal Coordinated Time). Locally, this will be from 6 PM CST Friday evening through 6 PM CST Saturday evening December 1st. A majority of the contacts are made via the High Frequency (aka. Short Wave) bands 80-10 meters (~3.500-29.7 MHz). Contacts will also be made via the VHF amateur frequencies on the 6 meter band (~50 MHz) and 2 meter band (~144-148 MHz). Most contacts in this event are made by phone mode (voice).Other modes such as Continuous Wave (Morse Code) and digital modes such as RTTY and PSK31, along with the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) like IRLP, EchoLink and “D-STAR, KI4PPF C” may be used too.The North Alabama SKYWARN repeater system will be activated during this event.
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CALERA – Darone Jones spends most of his time at work playing on the computer.But it’s not what you think. There’s no shopping on eBay or trying to beat solitaire.
No, his goofing around is pretty serious, and it might just save your life someday.
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No, his goofing around is pretty serious, and it might just save your life someday.
Full Story:
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Full Story:
http://www.shelbycountyreporter.com/articles/2007/11/13/news/news818.txtCALERA – Darone Jones spends most of his time at work playing on the computer.But it’s not what you think. There’s no shopping on eBay or trying to beat solitaire.
No, his goofing around is pretty serious, and it might just save your life someday.
Full Story:
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From Jason Wright at the NWS….
To Our Media Family,“
The National Weather Service (NWS) Birmingham Office, along with the Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency, will be hosting a Fall Severe Weather Awareness Day Press Conference at the Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency’s EMA Training Room on Wednesday, October 17th at 11 am.“ John James, Acting Director, Alabama Emergency Management Agency, Allen Kniphfer, Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency Director, and Kevin Pence, NWS Birmingham’s Science and Operations Officer, will speak.“ For background information concerning the Fall Severe Weather Awareness Day, please visit the NWS Birmingham’s Website at: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/aware/fall_severe_awareness.php.
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For questions, please contact Jason Wright, NWS Birmingham’s Warning Coordination Meteorologist at 205-664-7954 or cell: 205-287-1652.
From Jason Wright at the NWS….To Our Media Family,“
The National Weather Service (NWS) Birmingham Office, along with the Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency, will be hosting a Fall Severe Weather Awareness Day Press Conference at the Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency’s EMA Training Room on Wednesday, October 17th at 11 am.“ John James, Acting Director, Alabama Emergency Management Agency, Allen Kniphfer, Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency Director, and Kevin Pence, NWS Birmingham’s Science and Operations Officer, will speak.“ For background information concerning the Fall Severe Weather Awareness Day, please visit the NWS Birmingham’s Website at: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/aware/fall_severe_awareness.php.
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