Ham Operator Is New Boss At Hurricane Center Miami
Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in SKYWARN, SHARES, M.A.R.S., RACES, SPARCS | Comments OffVeteran meteorologist Bill Read, KB5FYA, was named the new director of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Tropical Prediction Center, which includes the National Hurricane Center (NHC) earlier this month. Read had served as the Center's acting deputy director ...
CHARRO COOKOUT & WINLINK SHOW A GREAT SUCCESS!
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in SPARCS | Comments OffAt least 100 were in attendance at the CHARRO Amateur Radio Club semi-annual cook-out and WinLink Seminar on Saturday January 26th with 37 hams attending the WinLink Seminar after everyone else finished lunch. Just before the WinLink Seminar there was ...
THE WEATHER IN TEXAS IS DRIVING US BATS!
Saturday, January 12th, 2008 Posted in SPARCS | Comments OffI thought you might enjoy this special link of "cool images: interesting, beautiful, educational, and/or unusual radar, satellite, or analytical imagery dealing with any weather subject" that is published routinely by Roger Edwards of the Storm Prediction Center Natioinal Weather Service ...
NIMS/ICS COURSES AVAILABLE PROFESSIONALLY ONLINE
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 Posted in SPARCS | Comments OffSPARCS members have been working on the Incident Command System and the National Incident Management System (ICS and NIMS) since 2006 and many have already completed the four major online courses recommended and approved by FEMA on the FEMA web site. ...
EXPERTS SAY NEW SOLAR CYCLE HAS JUST BEGUN!!!
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 Posted in SPARCS | Comments OffWith the appearance of Sunspot 981 -- a high-latitude, reversed polarity sunspot -- on Friday, January 4, experts at NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that Cycle 24 is now here. "This sunspot is like the ...
New EmComm Software Now Available for Beta Testing
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 Posted in SPARCS | Comments OffARRL LINK TO STORY. The NarrowBand Emergency Messaging System (NBEMS) development team announced earlier this week that a Windows NBEMS software suite for beta testing is now available. NBEMS for Windows is a suite of software programs designed for point-to-point, ...
Oregon Governor Allocates $250,000 for Digital Network
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 Posted in SPARCS | Comments OffThe State of Oregon's Office of Emergency Management (OEM) received $250,000 from Governor Ted Kulongoski's Strategic Reserve Fund to further develop and enhance a statewide Amateur Radio digital communications network, announced ARRL Oregon Section Manager Bonnie Altus, AB7ZQ. "This network, the ...
