SKYWARN Recognition Day 2009 will be held at the Wichita, KS NWS on December 5, 2009. SRD will begin at 8 AM and last through 5 PM. The SKYWARN Coordinators and Chance Hayes will have a short program to discuss SKYWARN in 2009 and 2010 at about 10 AM. If you can only make it for an hour - shoot for 10 AM...

Tentative setup includes:

1. ICOM 756 PRO III HF radio (SSB) with 800 watt amplifier to a horizontal dipole.

2. Yaesu 857 on PSK-31 to a vertical HF antenna.

3. Echolink (through the NWS Laptop) on WX0ICT.

4. Contacts through the SKYWARN repeater networks we normally use: State-Line Linked Repeaters, K-Link Linked Repeaters, 145.130- (156.7 hz tone).

If you cannot attend SRD, that is fine, please take the time to make a contact with the NWS through one at least one of the above methods.

More information as it develops. If you could send Sherry and I an RSVP, that would be nice. We'd like to have an idea how many are coming - we had a bunch last year - we might break the program into two sessions if we get more than 20 people signed up. (we did last year!)

Sherry Weir-Tuggle, KBØSQQ - Wichita NWS Coordinator
Randy Wing, N0LD, Asst. Wichita Skywarn Coordinator


SKYWARN® Recognition Day 2008 Is History
Modes of operation in Wichita were HF, IRLP, Echolink and PSK-31

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