Month: November 2019

THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF SKYWARN RECOGNITION DAY THIS DECEMBER

The National Weather Service office in Ruskin, which covers the Tampa Bay Area and all of the ARRL West Central Florida Section, will be participating in SKYWARN Recognition Day this year.  They will be operating Saturday, December 7th between 0800 and 1900.  SKYWARN Recognition Day was developed in 1999 by the National Weather Service and the American Radio Relay League to celebrate the contributions that volunteer SKYWARN radio operators make to the NWS mission: the protection of life and property. During the event, SKYWARN operators visit NWS offices and contact other stations across the nation and world.  All amateur radio operators are invited to drop in and help made contact with as many other stations as possible. If you have any questions please contact either:  Daniel Noah WX4DAN at daniel.noah@noaa.gov or by telephone at (813) 645-2323 extension 223 or Richard Rudy KE4EXL by email at richard.rude@noaa.gov or (813) 645-2323 extension 329.  The address of the National Weather Service is 2525 14th Ave. SE, Ruskin, FL 33570.

The following are links with additional information:  NWS Skywarn Recognition Day Page:  https://www.weather.gov/crh/skywarnrecognition, ARRL SKYWARN Recogintion Day Page: http://www.arrl.org/skywarn-recognition-day, and NWS Ruskin WX4TOR Page:  http://www.weather.gov/tbw/wx4tor

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WCF EXPERIMENTER FALL 2019 ISSUE IS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD

After somewhat of a delay, the WCF EXPERIMENTER Fall 2019 issue is now available for download. To download the Fall 2019 issue and any other previous issues please go to the WCF EXPERIMENTER webpage at http://arrlwcf.org/home/the-wcf-experimenter-technical-newsletter/.  The WCF EXPERIMENTER is published quarterly, and on occasion a supplemental issue as needed.

We are looking for articles for future editions of THE WCF EXPERIMENTER.  If you would like to submit an article, please send those submissions to Jim Weslager K3WR via email at weslager@gmail.com.

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WCF SECTION TECHNICAL NET CANCELLED FOR THANKSGIVING

The ARRL West Central Florida Section Technical Net, normally held on the NI4CE Repeater System every Thursday evening at 2100, scheduled for Thursday November 28th has been cancelled in observance of Thanksgiving.  Just a reminder that the ARRL WCF Section ARES and Information Net scheduled for Saturday November 30th on 3940 KHz at 0730 is also cancelled in observance of Thanksgiving.  Both of these nets will resume normal operation, albeit briefly, in the first week of December.

The ARRL West Central Florida Section wishes to extend to everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving Day and weekend.

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THE WCF PRESSER ISSUE #43 NOVEMBER 2019 IS NOW PUBLISHED

The WCF PRESSER Issue #43 November 2019, has been published on the Section website.  An announcement of the publication of the WCF PRESSER will be disseminated on the ARRL remailer shortly. If anyone has any information that is amateur radio related that you would like to go into the next issue of THE WCF PRESSER, please send that to our newsletter editor, Jim Weslager K3WR via email at weslager@gmail.com.

For the PDF version of this newsletter and past issues in PDF format go to http://arrlwcf.org/home/the-wcf-section-presser-arrl-west-central-florida-section-news/.

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