10/23/2003
SKYWARN Orientation/Net Control Class held on October 23rd at the Seven Mile Post Road Church just west of Athens.
08/27/2003
Updated links page.
08/16/2003
Alabama SKYWARN tags are now being presold, click on the Alabama SKYWARN foundation link on the links page for more info!
08/16/2003
SKYWARN Forum at Hunstsville Hamfest... Brian Peters talked About Alabama SKYWARN Foundation... Tim Troutman talked about new counties in coverage area... Updates from participating counties...
08/14/2003
Updated links page.
08/13/2003
HUN News: Franlin, Moore and Lincoln Counties in TN being moved to HUN coverage area.
07/21/2003
New format for local nets page that includes links to maps of highways and cities for each county.
07/18/2003
Updated links page.
06/17/2003
Updated links page.
01/12/2003
Website updated for transfer of SKYWARN ops to Huntsville Office(HUN).
12/10/2002
NALWARN granted callsign WX4HUN for operating at the Huntsville Office.
11/18/2002
Net control class held at the Colbert County Annex.
08-17-02
SKYWARN Forum at Huntsville Hamfest - Updates from the participating counties and presentations by Doug Childs, Bill Cleveland, and Tim Troutman.
08-12-02
Harlie Henson KB4CRG and Rex Free traveled to Eva,Alabama in southern Morgan county to put the replacement UHF link transmitter in. Eva link is 100% Operational again.
07-02-02
Net Control Class held at Jackson County EOC.
07-02-02
New versions of the SOP and preambles available for review.
06-24-02
The Eva link is back on line....The new antenna and feed line workedgreat..Birmingham is hearing the Eva site very well now..... BUT anothersmall problem has come up!
On June 11th a team of hams went down and repaired the link problem..aftermany of you donated equipment and money.
When we hooked everything up, we discovered another problem.During the time we first discovered the problem down there back in April,they (the radio station at Eva) were knocked with yet another tremendouslightning hit! This last one took out thousands of dollars worth of theradio stations equipment. They told us a large lightning fireball driftedthrough the studio during the hit!! Fuse panels, and other equipment wereblown off the walls! Unfortunately, it got us again as well but on a MUCH smaller scale.
The UHF link frequency radio's output that all of us (on the repeaters innorth Alabama) hear Eva on, is down from 20 watts to about a half to 1 wattoutput. All of the Eva link is working after we recently replaced the feedline and antenna link to the Birmingham 442.075 repeater, but if you bringup Eva up from any of our 3 repeaters right now, it will sound noisy COMINGBACK UP THIS WAY because of the links low power output. The link toBirmingham that we worked with new feed line and an antenna is working fine.That part is in great shape! The guys on 442.075 down there hear the Evasite great now.
Jamie Wright, KD4SIY, a ham who lives less than 5 miles from the Eva sightcame down and helped us on the 11th of June. When we told him about theproblem, he donated a Motorola Moxy UHF radio for the Eva Link (Currently weare using two commercial Johnson radios donated by the Lauderdale countyEMA). Harlie checked the Motorola Moxy radio out and it is in goodshape...He has ordered crystals for the radio using the funds we havecollected. As soon as that gets changed out, we should be back up to fullpower and ready! So for the time being, it works, but it is very weak.
A many thanks to all across central and north Alabama who contributed time,money and equipment.
As soon as the link radio is changed out and we are back up to full power, Iwill let everyone know.
05-28-02
The NWS office in Calera/Birmingham purchased a new Maxrad UHF beam antenna to replace the bad one in Eva. Ernie Blair has the feed line that was donated by a ham in Birmingham - Mark Parmley. The beam antenna is at Rex Free's house waiting to be put up within the next 2 weeks. Ed Weatherford-N3EW is going to send a check for past due and current/future power bills at the sight to the radio station at Eva. Thanks for everyone's donations
05-09-02
New versions of the SOP and preambles available for review.
05-06-02
Net Control Class held at Guntersville Fire Hall #1.
05-03-02
More data added to the Weather Data page.
03-30-02
Net Control Class held at Lauderdale County EOC.
03-09-02
Net Control Class held at Huntsville Public Services Building.
02-16-02
Net Control class to be held March 9th, 9:00-12:00, at the Huntsville Public Services Building
01-09-02
New Website Officially online
11-18-01
H.R. 2500, the billthat contained the $3 million for the WFO in Huntsville, was signed by President Bushon Wednesday, Nov. 28th. It became public law 107-77.
11-09-01
Press release from Bud Cramer concerning new WFO in Huntsville
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