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District 7 Team

Skywarn Operations Coordinator
Eddie Pike
KD4VYK

Skywarn Advisor
Ed Bradley
W4VGI

ASST Operations Coordinator
Brandon Monroe
KG4QWI

District Coordinator
Bob Brundige
N1UAN

ASST District Coordinator
Todd Malone
KE4CCB

County Coordinators

Carter County
Jerry Lake
KD4NH

Greene County
Justin Brown
AK4BO

Hawkins County
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Johnson County
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Sullivan County
Erik McCord
KJ4ZIT

Unicoi County
Intern
Jason Campbell
KK4HGX

Washington County
Jason McCord
WX4XW

Assistant County Coordinators

Sullivan County
Pat Garrett
WD4PG

Washington County
Eric Stanton
KK4FPB


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Bob Brundige
N1UAN


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06-03-2012 23:53
Thanks for the heads up Erik!

06-03-2012 20:27
Thanks for the reminder on that

06-03-2012 20:24
An early reminder: This is the weekend for time change ! We set our clocks FORWARD 1 hour before going to bed Saturday night.

Welcome

Welcome to the WX4TN NETN District 7 Skywarn Webpage.

I would like to welcome you to the District 7 Skywarn web site and invite you to submit any comments, suggestion, pictures, and web site links related to weather for our site.

Our web site will feature updated information about Skywarn, weather alerts, Ham Radio Nets, training information, weather related picture galleries, and links to local clubs and organizations.

We are still in the process of growing both team wise and site wise. It is our hope that you find this web site both interesting and helpful. We welcome any suggestions you may have.

This is, in addition to being an information site for the Skywarn team, a source of community information. We hope to list any information from other agencies, organizations, and individuals that are approved as being pertinent to the Skywarn and/or community interest.

Please enjoy your visit. Click on the list on the left of any area that interests you for information that our site contains. Once again, thank you for visiting our website, and I would like to remind all spotters to spot safely.


Bob Brundige
District Coordinator
N1UAN

WX4TN Resources

Central Electronics Vintage SSB Meet - June 16th

Central Electronics Vintage SSB Meet in Jonesborough, TN.

When: Saturday, June 16th (8am - 5 pm)

Where: W9DYV QTH; 693 N. Cherokee St; Jonesborough, TN.

Featuring Wes Schum W9DYV Founder of Central Electronics

Here is the flyer: http://www.mccords.us/skywarn/CentralElectronicsVintageSSBMeet.pdf

Newsletter of Tri-Cities

Attn All Hams !

You can now receive the best newsletter in the Tri-Cities and emails of amateur radio news throughout the area each week as a public service. If you want to receive these materials, please email Mike Jackson at ki4ojo1@gmail.com

2012 ARRL Field Day ~ June 23-24

When: June 23-24

Time: 2:00 PM EDT (1800 UTC) Saturday through 4:59 PM EDT (2059 UTC) Sunday.



For more information: http://www.arrl.org/field-day

Summer Repeater Party ~ June 16

Back By Popular Demand !

When: Saturday, June 16, 2012 @ 8:00 PM EDT (2000 UTC)

Where: KE4CCB 442.200 (+) PL 100.0

Electronic QSL's will be sent upon request.
Jason (WX4XW) will be Net control and Erik (KJ4ZIT) will be backup Net Control.

Hope to hear you on 70cm !!!!

Covered Bridge Celebration ~ June 7-9 ~ Elizabethton, TN

This year the Carter Co. Amateur Radio Assoc will have a special event station set up during the Covered Bridge Days events. We (CCARA) plan to operate from 4 PM to 8 PM Thursday and Friday and 12 PM to 8 PM on Saturday. We (CCARA) have obtained the special event call sign W4E to use for this event. Anyone is welcome to come by and do some operating. We'd love to see you there.

May 26 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Johnson County SwapFest

Johnson County Amateur Radio Club SwapFest in Mountain City, TN. Admission $3.00. Saturday, May 26 8AM til 12PM at the National Guary Armory, 1923 S Shady St (Hwy 421), Mountain City, TN. Talk-in 146.610, tone 103.5. Testing session will start at 11:00 AM. For information call Erik Iddings, 423-727-7793 or Frank Liberstein, 423-727-0333.

When registering with WX4TN.org !!!!

Dear Visitor,

Make sure that you use your callsign, if you have one in the username, when you register.

Thanks,
WX4TN District 7 SKYWARN Team

SKYWARN / Weather Files

DownloadsHere are several SKYWARN / Weather Files. (Updated 05/06/2012)

For More Info: http://www.mccords.us/skywarn

WX4TN Resources

NewsAs you can see we are adding a WX4TN Resources not all are working as of yet some will change and some new ones will be added keep checking back more info to follow
Thanks

Carl Robinson (KJ4LRW)

Carl Robinson (KJ4LRW) passed away Thursday, February 23, 2012 morning. He was a great, dedicated, storm spotter & a figure to the amateur radio community. We will miss him dearly.




Spotter Reporting

Reporting Criteria:

1. Wall Cloud
2. Tornado
3. Funnel Clouds
4. Cloud Rotation
5. Damaging Winds (58 MPH or greater measured)
6. Hail 1" or larger
7. Flooding - Any stream out of its banks or water covering a roadway (do not report minor stream flooding & overflowing ditches)
8. Rainfall 1 inch or more per hour

What NOT to report:

1. Anything not seen personally.
2. Information from Internet, TV, or radar, or traffic from scanners or media broadcasting to the Net Control Station while a formal net is in progress.
3. Frivolously Reports such as "It's getting really windy cloudy here", "We are experiencing a lot of lightning and heavy rain", or "We still have sunshine at my location" are not valid reports.


Common Hail Sizes:

Pea - 0.25"
Penny - 0.75"
Nickel - 0.88"
Quarter - 1.00"
Golfball - 1.75"
Tennis - 2.50"
Baseball - 2.75"
Softball - 4.25"

Wind Speed Estimator: MPH

39-54: Twigs break off of trees; wind impedes walking.
55-72: (Severe) Damage to chimneys, pushes over shallow rooted trees.
73-112: Peals surface off roofs, Pushes autos off the road.
113-157: Roofs torn off houses, weak buildings destroyed. Large trees snapped and uprooted.
158+: Severe Damage. Cars lifted off ground.

Hazardous Weather Outlook

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