"Activation Plan for Net Operations"

The Hurricane Watch Net plans to begin operations on our net
frequency (14.325 MHz) beginning Wednesday, Sept. 17 at 1400 UTC.
According to recent advisory and track information, Hurricane Isabel
will be within 300 miles of projected land fall someplace along the
North Carolina coast at that time.

Our main operational goals for Wednesday will be two fold, as
follows:

1) to make the storm advisory information on a regular basis to those
in the affected area of the forecast path of the storm, and

2) to identify and collect a list of stations in the path of the
storm who may be available throughout this event for the purpose of
reporting local weather measurements and observations to us for
conveyance to the forecasters in the National Hurricane Center.
It is essential to contain our scope of reporting stations along and
closely to the side of the forecast track, and it is important that
you remain silent if not in the specified area.

Please honor our request that you should not check in to the net
unless specifically requested to do so. We will attempt to handle all
communications within the capabilities of our own members, and only
when required assistance is needed will we ask for your help.

While our mission is specifically to provide storm related
information into and out of the storm, please understand we are not
involved in Health and Welfare traffic. That traffic will be handled
by the SATERN net on 14.265 beginning at 1400 UTC on Thursday, and
will be in place throughout the duration of this event. We will
likely be reporting other emergency frequencies to be set up by local
emergency management nets in the affected area. Please monitor 14.325
for that information as it is made available.

As a final reminder, please monitor this web site for storm related
advisory updates, graphics displays, and other data made available
from the National Hurricane Center.

Thanks in advance for your support and cooperation during this
extremely dangerous storm.

Sincerely, Mike Pilgrim, K5MP Manager

From: Hurricane Watch Net, http://www.hwn.org