Hi folks -

Just one last reminder of our meeting tonight at 7 p.m. at Van's Pig Stand!

Please see the information below regarding NWCARC/OUARC ops for Skywarn Recognition Day this Friday and Saturday. Any of you are welcome to stop by at any time! Should be a fun event and I can't wait to fire up the SteppIR!

Robin Tanamachi, KC0BSC
Graduate Research Assistant
OU School of Meteorology
National Weather Center
120 David L. Boren Blvd., Suite 5355
Norman, OK 73072-7307
405-325-1935

"The reward of the young scientist is the emotional thrill of being the first person in the history of the world to see something or to understand something... The reward of the old scientist is the sense of having seen a vague sketch grow into a masterly landscape." -- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
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From: Ken Brown [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: Skywarn Recognition Day Dec 6, 2008

Hello all,

Our status as of 4 Dec.  WX5NWC is registered and shows up on
http://hamradio.noaa.gov web page.  This is the 10th year for
the event.

The vertical antenna with auto tuner that we used for the
weather festival has been relocated and is wired to the wall
jack on the south wall of the observatory where we worked
last year.

The SteppIR antenna has been rotated east-west and set for
bi-directional operation on 20 meters. It is wired to the
wall jack on the west wall of the observatory.  It shows a
SWR of 1.5 to 1 in the range from 14.170 to 14.300 and the
operation should be limited to this range only.

We plan to put a radio at each operating position. Peter is
working on getting the computer and headsets organized. The
NWC web page has a current temperature display so that should
provide that info for the exchange.

The QSO exchange is the same as past years. I have printed
log sheets for this event with spaces for the needed entires.
Please, everyone use UTC time in the log, indicate when you
change frequency, and put the control op callsign on each
page to help us out if we need resolve an entry. A sharp
pencil or pen would be nice so the pages can be photo copied.
After the event I'll collect the data to make our entry to
NWS.

Doug has been working on an informal schedule of operators.
We plan to move equipment to the observatory in the
afternoon Friday.

It would be nice to have at least one manual for the IC-7000
available but all I have is a .pdf file.

Anything that I left off the list above please let me or the
group know so we can arrange it.

Ken Brown