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Ham Operator Is New Boss At Hurricane Center Miami

Veteran 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 since August 2007. The NHC has a dedicated amateur station on-site — W4EHW — and has worked closely with hams for decades. In announcing Read’s appointment to head the Center, NOAA Administrator Conrad Lautenbacher cited Read’s three decades of experience with the agency and of his reputation as “a trusted consultant to emergency managers” in the Houston area.

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