Our current regimen of Skywarn training is shown as follows.
Please be aware that we may vary from this schedule from time to time, including when severe weather comes our way during our weekly, Tuesday night Skywarn training sessions.
If you have questions or suggestions for training, please contact our Skywarn Management Team (skywarn@w4am.net).
Schedule Updated: 2023-11-27
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| 6-Jun | Hurricane effects on SE TN weather |
| 13-Jun | Wildfires and weather effects |
| 20-Jun | Preparation for HOT WEATHER |
| 27-Jun | NWS SkyWarn Quality Spotter Reporting |
| 4-Jul | Free Net- open discussion |
| 11-Jul | Weather Spotter Net Activation- Who and When |
| 18-Jul | The speed of disasters and incidents |
| 25-Jul | Actual stories of disasters and incidents- operator night |
| 1-Aug | What are the Local TAG SkyWarn Frequencies? |
| 8-Aug | What are the NW GA & NE AL Weather Frequencies? |
| 15-Aug | What time is it? What is Time? |
| 22-Aug | Relay and Simplex Training- Repeater failure drill |
| 29-Aug | At the hop- repeater agility training- VHF & GMRS |
| 29-Aug | Relay Simplex After Action Review |
| 5-Sep | Effective Net Control Operator Characteristics |
| 12-Sep | Effective Net Control Station Characteristics |
| 19-Sep | Effective Operator Checkin Characteristics |
| 26-Sep | What3Words- an easy location identifier |
| 3-Oct | What3Words Game- Where Am I? |
| 10-Oct | Cold Weather Preparation |
| 17-Oct | What does my signal sound like? Earl WA4KBT |
| 24-Oct | Guest Trainer- Lessons from HC ESNP Haunted Trails & RC STA |
| 31-Oct | Halloween- What Are You Doing for Halloween? |
| 7-Nov | Weather Station Options and Apps- Christmas presents |
| 14-Nov | Useful Weather Apps for phone or desktop |
| 21-Nov | Free Net- open discussion |
| 28-Nov | What toys do you want Santa to bring to you? |
| 4-Dec | Food preservation in a long term weather outage |
| 12-Dec | ITU Phonetics Game- What Did He say? |
| 19-Dec | open discussion of any topic |
| 26-Dec | What toys did Santa bring to you? |
| 4-Dec | Food preservation in a long-term weather outage |
| 12-Dec | Safe Rooms - Prepare for the Worst - Gary Ownsby AK4ZX |
| 19-Dec | Open Discussion |
| 26-Dec | What Did Santa Bring to Help Skywarn Storm Spotters? |
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| 2-Jan | What topics do you want to hear? Hear again? |
| 9-Jan | Relay and Simplex Training- Repeater failure drill |
| 16-Jan | Aux power operation options- what do you use for backup |
| 23-Jan | 10 meter night 28.375 USB- Get Ready- All Hands on deck |
| 30-Jan | |
| Unscheduled Topics | |
| Suggestions welcome anytime | |
| Lessons To Learn-Mistakes during Nets & Activations | |
| Tactical Call Signs- when, where, how to use | |
| operating a tactical radio net | |
| 10 meter ground wave P2P comms without repeater | |
| Antenna Night- what do you have?-UHF-VHF-10 meters-HF | |
| Why should I have a CB radio? GMRS radio? HF radio? | |
| Q & A about NIMS ICS courses-relevance for Skywarn | |
| Why do we use ICS to plan events? | |
| NIMS ICS 100-200-700-800- "What's My Line" (of work) Game? | |
| Net Managers | |
| Mark Rose KA0YDC/WRWF631, Skywarn Emergency Coordinator | |
| Ronnie Craig WRKJ453, Net Control (GMRS) | |
| Jim Wells KO4MKP/WRKK629, Net Control (GMRS/Ham) | |
| Stuart Neil WRXH279, Net Control (GMRS) | |
| Bill Price K4FLH, Alternate Net Control (Ham) | |
| Robert Berman W4SET/WQVT523, Training Coordinator | |
| Gary Ownsby AK4ZX/WQOF749, Training Publisher and Editor | |
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