[d-star] Fwd: National Hurricane Net Test Saturday Morning Using D-STAR & D-RATS

[Mark Thompson via d-star]

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From: "wb4qdx at arrl.net [ga_dstar]" <ga_dstar at yahoogroups.com>
To: ga_dstar at yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 1:13 PM
Subject: [ga_dstar] National Hurricane Net test saturday morning

Just a reminder that the annual test of the National Hurricane Net will be conducted this Saturday.  
This is the first year that D-STAR and D-RATS will be a part of the reporting for the test.  

Our Georgia D-STAR repeaters that are normally linked to REF030B will be linked to REF002A between 10:00a and 12:00 noon on Saturday for the test.  
Other repeaters around the southeast coast will also be linked to REF002A for the test.  
Any D-STAR repeaters in Georgia that can be linked manually to REF002A for the test is appreciated.

There will be a Net Control Station during the voice net.  As we do with the Southeast D-STAR Weather Net on Sunday evenings, we will call for Quick Key check-ins by state.  
Each station will then be contacted to provide their report.  
For the test, we are looking for actual local conditions at your location.  
Please use the reporting format found in the document in the Files section, WX4NHC Reporting Form.

For those wishing to submit a report by D-RATS, a special ratflector has been setup for this net, drat.seweather.net.  
Reports can be submitted in D-RATS via Messaging addressed to Net Control as the Destination Callsign using a special form, NHC_surfacewx.  

To use this form, copy the two files, nhcsurfacewx.xml and nhc_surfacewx.xsl into the Forms folder in your D-RATS application on your computer. 
Alternately, you can import the xml file as a new message template.  The files are also found in Files section of this group.

We appreciate all stations who participate in this net test to demonstrate the value and flexibility of D-STAR.

Thanks,
John WB4QDX