Jack Painter wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
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Jack Painter wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
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Jack Painter wrote:

"Dale Parfitt" wrote
"dxAce" wrote
The HWN is currently active on 14325 per http://www.hwn.org/

dxAce

Sure is. Using the 756PRO and dual watch to monitor it and the
MARS on
13.927 - activity picking up.

Dale W4OP

As usual, they gear up way too soon, for the last 8 hours "looking
for
weather from the affected areas"...when there are no affected areas,
and
won't be for 20 hours from their initial activation.

That is not exactly true... The Hurricane Watch Net will activate
anytime
a
hurricane is within 300 miles of land.

Earlier today Hurricane Frances was near the Turks and Caicos Islands,
and
approaching the Bahamas, so there certainly are affected areas.

dxAce


You're right, but miss my point! 300 miles is a ridiculous distance as
the
weather reports are meaningless until the barometer starts plumetting
and
the edge of the tropical front approaches. All day and night...it isn't,
nor
even forecast to! Heard one net control ask a guy who had measured 1
thousandth of an inch of rain all day - "so how are you holding up in
this"?
Hmmm.

Well, the Turks and Caicos Islands were certainly a lot closer than 300
miles
from the hurricane last night...

No effects were noted from the stations reporting all day and into the
night.


And... here is a report from this morning:

AT 5 AM AST...0900Z...
I'm still trying to grasp your point. :-)

My point is that the Hurricane Watch Net can/will activate when a
hurricane is
within 300 miles of land... that may seem ridiculous to you, but that's
the way
it is.

dxAce


Let me try this again.

That's all I'm saying, it's a waste of time to follow 14325 the day before
the hurricane approaches.

Why is that? As I've said before the hurricane was already at Turks and Caicos.
Whether or not you follow it, or I follow it is immaterial. What is material is
that the HWN exists to disseminate NHC reports and to collect weather data for
NHC from the affected area. As far as HWN is concerned the 'affected area' is
anywhere there is land within 300 miles of the hurricane.

Stations in the soon to be affected areas get the
NHC reports read to them, and that may be useful to some of those stations,
not to disaffected listeners.

HWN doesn't give a hoot about 'disaffected listeners', nor should they.

I'm still trying to decipher your original post where you stated "As usual,
they gear up way too soon, for the last 8 hours "looking for weather from the
affected areas"...when there are no affected areas, andwon't be for 20 hours
from their initial activation".

That is the statement I disagree with, as indeed there were 'affected areas',
and I can't figure out where you came up with the 20 hour figure.

Over to you...

dxAce