Solar Storm online exercise

The Exercise Design Team has reported that this event will disrupt communications.

The exercise is an online tabletop and FREE during National Preparedness Month.

To register your ARES/RACES/Skywarn group in the event click the link below


Formidable Footprint - A Neighborhood Tabletop Exercise - Solar Storm | ONX System

2012 Hurricane Season Webinar

The ARRL will host a webinar from 8-9:30 PM EDT Tuesday, July 17 (0000-0130 UTC Wednesday, July 18) to present information about the 2012 hurricane season and the Amateur Radio response. The program will offer presentations from representatives from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) and WX4NHC (the Amateur Radio station at the NHC), the VoIP Hurricane Net, the Hurricane Watch Net (HWN) and the ARRL. Webinar registration is open to all, but this informative web session will be of particular interest to those amateurs in hurricane-prone areas. If you are interested in emergency communications and hurricane preparedness and response, you are invited to attend this online presentation.

The following items will be included in the webinar:

• Opening remarks and introduction of presenters.
• Meteorological Overview of the Upcoming Season, presented by VoIP Hurricane Net Director of Operations and ARRL Eastern Massachusetts Section Emergency Coordinator Rob Macedo, KD1CY.
• Amateur Radio WX4NHC at the National Hurricane Center: Who We Are and What We Do and How to Contact WX4NHC and Submit Surface Reports During a Hurricane, presented by WX4NHC Assistant Coordinator Julio Ripoll, WD4R
• WX4NHC Weather Initiatives: APRS, ON-NHC, CARMEN and CWOP Programs and Equipment, presented by WX4NHC Coordinator John McHugh, K4AG
• ARRL Coordination and Interface, presented by ARRL Emergency Preparedness Manager Mike Corey, KI1U
• VoIP Hurricane Net, presented by Rob Macedo, KD1CY
• Hurricane Watch Net, presented by Hurricane Watch Net Assistant Net Manager Tom Gerard, KB3ONZ
• Q&A Session and Closing Remarks

To register for this webinar, please click https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/472855454




Mike Corey, KI1U
Emergency Preparedness Manager

ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio™
225 Main Street
Newington, CT 06111

Field Day pictures from the Tulsa Area with @K5RAV

How would you like to do Field Day in this?

Dan Threlkeld, KF5FSL, left, and Doug Lee, KC5ZQM add to the Field Day tally.

Even K5RAV got into the Field Day mode.

Ed, K5CRQ, took his turn adding contacts to the log.

Any other clubs have Field Day shots to share?  Pass them along through your club Public Information Officer.  Thanks to the Tulsa group for sharing these.