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

Attn All Hams !

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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

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 !!!!

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.

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.

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

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

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

As 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) 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.

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.