By Jim Moehring, KB9WWM
The Fort Wayne Radio Club will be provide a special event station at the Northern Indiana National Weather Service (NWS) Office (KIWX), near North Webster, Ind. for SKYWARN Recognition Day.
The goal of the activation is to contact as many of the other NWS Offices as possible between the times of 1900 Local, December 4, 2015 (0000 UTC. December 5) and 1900 Local, Dec 5, 2015 (2400 UTC, December 5, 2015).
The FWRC is inviting all amateurs in the KIWX County Warning Area (lightly shaded counties on map at right) to participate in this event.
Please share this information with your teams and the radio clubs in your county and adjacent counties.
It is important to note that all amateurs who wish to participate in the event must pre-register with their desired times to operate.
Although it might have been possible in past years to “drop in” unexpected at the NWS office during the SKYWARN Recognition Day operations, current NWS policy prohibits access to the NWS facility by any operator who has not pre-registered. This is NWS policy over which FWRC has no control.
More information is available in a PDF file, a link to which appears below.
Any operator can pre-register by contacting me at KB9WWM@arrl.net. Please put “SRD” or “SKYWARN Recognition Day” in the subject line of your message.