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Due to an error on my part we were unable to secure a location at Walmart for Field Day. At last night’s meeting the club voted to cancel our Field Day activities for 2019. I apologize for the inconvenience. I can assure you things will get moving much earlier next year. 73 Brian AB3RW

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Monday June 17 is our regularly schedule club meeting. We at 1900 will meet in the social hall at the Independent Hose Fire Station on a Baughmans Ln. We will also be testing at 1800 so any available VEs should plan on being there a few minutes early.

73 Brian AB3RW

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The National Hurricane Center Communications Test is today!!!!!

The National Hurricane Communications test will be Today Saturday June 1,2019. The VOIP portion will be 3-4 pm. on June 1. The 146.82 repeater in New Orleans will be link to them. The purpose of this test is to make sure their radio equipment and your radio equipment are working properly for the 2019 Hurricane season.
See Below for more information:

Announcement from WX4NHC

Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center, Miami Florida

WX4NHC will be On-The-Air for the Annual Station Test

Saturday, June 1st , 2019 from 9AM- 5 PM EDT ( 1300z- 2100z)

This will be our 39th year of public service at NHC.

The purpose of this event is to test Amateur Radio Station equipment, antennas and computers prior to this year’s Hurricane Season, which starts June 1st and runs through November 30th.

This event is good practice for Ham Radio Operators world-wide as well as NWS Staff to become familiar with Amateur Radio communications available during times of severe weather.

We will be making brief contacts on many frequencies and modes, exchanging signal reports and basic weather data exchange (“Sunny”, or “Rain”, etc.) with any station in any location.

WX4NHC will be On-The-Air on HF, VHF, UHF , 2 & 30 meter APRS and WinLink wx4nhc@winlink.org subject must contain “//WL2K”.

We will try to stay on the Hurricane Watch Net frequency 14.325 MHz most of the time.

Due to space and equipment limitations, we will have 2 operators per shift, we cannot be on all frequencies or on every mode at the same time.
You may be able to find us on HF by using one of the DX Spotting Networks,

Such as the DX Summit Web Site: http://www.dxsummit.fi/Search.aspx

We will also be on VoIP Hurricane Net 4pm-5pm EDT (2000-2100z)

(IRLP node 9219 / EchoLink WX-TALK Conference node 7203). http://www.voipwx.net/

Florida Statewide SARNET and local VHF & UHF Repeaters will be contacted.

QSL Cards are available via WD4R.
Please send your card with a S.A.S.E.

Please do NOT send QSLs directly to the Hurricane Center address, as it will get delayed.

Due to security measures:

NO VISITORS will be allowed entry to NHC without prior clearance from NHC PIO and Security.

Only WX4NHC Operators on the pre-approved operating schedule will be allowed entry.

For more information about WX4NHC, please visit our website

www.wx4nhc.org

Thank you for your participation in the WX4NHC Annual Station Test event.

73, Julio – WD4R
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Julio Ripoll Architect WD4R
WX4NHC Amateur Radio Asst. Coordinator
www.wx4nhc.org
Celebrating 39 years at the
National Hurricane Center
www.nhc.noaa.gov
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This Monday May 20 is our regularly scheduled club meeting. We will meet in the social hall at the Independent Hose Fire Station on Baughmans Ln at 1900. It’s time to finalize plans for Field Day. Hope to see you there.

Brian AB3RW

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