Tri-State Amateur
Radio Society News

NWS RADAR Training
 Attention Emergency Management Personnel, Weather Spotters & Meteorologists,
The National Weather Service in Paducah will give Radar Training to Emergency Management personnel, Advanced Weather Spotters, and other persons in weather related positions.
  This is NOT open to the general public.  The training will be held on Saturday, May 10 from 9AM until 1PM. at the Hopkins County Fairgrounds off of Arch Street in Madisonville, Ky. For directions you may contact Hopkins County Emergency Management Director Frank Wright at 270-825-5024 or via e-mail at ema@newwavecomm.net . The training will be given by Pat Spoden from the Paducah NWS Office. Anyone interested in attending should register your intentions via e-mail to davidpowell@bellsouth.net so we can get an accurate head count. We will need this in order to provide adequate amounts of training material. We need you to register no later than Friday May 2nd. This is a rare opportunity to get valuable training from an expert. Our thanks to Hopkins County Emergency Management for agreeing to host this event.

David Powell
Weather Coordinator
Christian County Emergency Management

FOX HUNT (Transmitter Hunt)

May 3rd,  We will be starting from the North Park Radio Shack parking lot at 9:00 am. Check in on the 146.79 repeater or 146.52 for instructions.
Contact Chris, KE9YK for more information.

ARRL VE Testing Evansville Red Cross
May 31, June 28 and July 26
All testing will be administered at 9:00AM local time at the Evansville Red Cross, located at 29 S. Stockwell Rd.
For further information contact
Terry Brooks – AA9MM
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812-401-9632
[Find more info here!]

Space Shuttle Audio
The AA9MM 444.150 pl 167.9 repeater has been retransmitting NASA Space Shuttle audio.  Listen in and see what is going on.
For more info contact Terry AA9MM.

Amateur Radio Volunteers Respond
in Vanderburgh and Warrick Counties
As many of you know, early Sunday morning November 6, 2005 a Deadly Tornado swept through the Vanderburgh and Warrick Counties in South-Western Indiana leaving 24 people dead and hundreds injured.  Approximately 700 home were damaged with over 300 destroyed.    Click HERE for all the information.

Hazardous Weather Outlook
WWV Geophysical Alert Message

Emergency Communications
Interested in helping with emergency communications in the Evansville Vanderburgh County and surrounding area.  Join the Emergency Comms group on Yahoo.  It's free, easy and open to everyone.  
Click here to JOIN EMERGENCY COMMS
or Click Here to join via e-mail just click send on the blank message.

Scientists Predict Big Solar Cycle
Dec. 21, 2006: Evidence is mounting: the next solar cycle is going to be a big one.
Solar cycle 24, due to peak in 2010 or 2011 "looks like its going to be one of the most intense cycles since record-keeping began almost 400 years ago," says solar physicist David Hathaway of the Marshall Space Flight Center. He and colleague Robert Wilson presented this conclusion last week at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.

Amateur Radio News on the web
The RAIN report.  mp3
Amateur Radio Newsline  mp3  text

LST-325 IN PORT Evansville !
TARS is ask to help support radio operations on the LST. 

TARS Board members with Perry W8AU
Click here for LST-325 Radio room pictures.

Get more LST 325 information online.
LST Memorial
Evansville Courier & Press

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