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December 6, 2026 Net Log

k2dcd.dura@... (K2DCD Dennis) — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:56:14 -0800

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Event: VoIP SKYWARN/Hurricane Prep Net - Saturday, December 6, 2025

@... — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 04:00:00 -0800

Dec

Sat

VoIP SKYWARN/Hurricane Prep Net

By rob macedo kd1cy.rob@...

Date and Time

Saturday, December 6, 2025
7:00pm to 8:00pm
(UTC-05:00) America/New York

Location

*WX_TALK* Echolink Conference Node: 7203/IRLP 9219
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Description

Join us for the VoIP Hurricane Prep Net on the *WX_TALK* Echolink conference node 7203/IRLP 9219 system at a special time, 700 PM ET/600 PM CT/500 PM MT/400 PM PT/0000 UTC as the net rounds out SKYWARN Recognition Day activities for this year.

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Event: VoIP SKYWARN/Hurricane Prep Net - Saturday, December 6, 2025

@... — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:00:01 -0800

Dec

Sat

VoIP SKYWARN/Hurricane Prep Net

By rob macedo kd1cy.rob@...

Date and Time

Saturday, December 6, 2025
7:00pm to 8:00pm
(UTC-05:00) America/New York

Location

*WX_TALK* Echolink Conference Node: 7203/IRLP 9219
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2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season Ending Press Release/NHC Storm Verification Report & VoIP Hurricane Prep Net Reminders

rmacedo@... (Rob Macedo) — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 09:11:52 -0800

Hello to all...

On behalf of the entire VoIP Hurricane Net Management Team, we hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving and are enjoying what is a long weekend holiday period for many people. We wanted to provide the 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season Ending Press Release and storm verification information from NOAA and the National Hurricane Center and a couple net reminders. See links below from NOAA and the National Hurricane Center:

2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season Ending Press Release:

https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/2025-atlantic-hurricane-season-marked-by-striking-contrasts

2025 National Hurricane Center Storm Verification Report Preview:

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/NHC_Verification_Report_2025_Preview.pdf

Also a couple reminders that due to the long holiday weekend for many people, the VoIP Hurricane Prep Net for Saturday 11/28/25 is canceled. Our final net for 2025 as we shift to monthly with the end of Hurricane Season will be Saturday 12/6/25 at 7 PM ET/6 PM CT (1 hour earlier than usual) as while SRD'2025 has been canceled, it is a one off change for this year so we will leave the net at the earlier time. We appreciate everyone's support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!

73,Rob-KD1CY.

Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net

Cancelled Event: VoIP SKYWARN/Hurricane Prep Net - Saturday, November 29, 2025

@... — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 19:17:31 -0800

Nov

Sat

CANCELLED: VoIP SKYWARN/Hurricane Prep Net

By rob macedo kd1cy.rob@...

This event has been cancelled.

Date and Time

Saturday, November 29, 2025
8:00pm to 9:00pm
(UTC-05:00) America/New York

Description

Join us weekly in the June through November Hurricane Season months for the VoIP Hurricane Prep Net on the *WX_TALK* Echolink conference node 7203/IRLP 9219 system at 800 PM ET/700 PM CT/600 PM MT/500 PM PT. This is also 0000 UTC from June through the first weekend in November and 0100 UTC for the rest of the month of November.

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Re: Happy Thanksgiving! - SRD'25 Cancellation - VoIP Hurricane Prep Net Schedule for the Rest of 2025

w1hai@... (joe weisse) — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 13:45:33 -0800

Thanks Rob,

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family also.

Joe

Happy Thanksgiving! - SRD'25 Cancellation - VoIP Hurricane Prep Net Schedule for the Rest of 2025

kd1cy.rob@... (rob macedo) — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 12:17:20 -0800

Hello to all...

On behalf of the VoIP Hurricane Net Management Team, we wish a very Happy Thanksgiving to all US based Amateur Radio Operators! We hope everyone has a great holiday weekend with friends, family and hopefully some time on Amateur Radio.

By now, everyone should be aware that the SKYWARN Recognition Day, SRD'25, has been cancelled at a national level. Some local NWS offices may choose to do a local event for SRD'25 at their discretion. While this is disappointing, its understandable due to the government shutdown and the residual impacts it has on planning and on the staff of the agency. As a member of the national committee for SRD, we are looking at making the event bigger and better than ever for 2026. Please see the ARRL web site post on SRD 2025 cancellation:

Saturday, November 8, 2025
8:00pm to 9:00pm
(UTC-05:00) America/New York

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Reminder: No VoIP Hurricane Prep Net Saturday 11/1/25 - Next VoIP Hurricane Prep Net Saturday 11/8/25 - Final Hurricane Melissa Report To Be Posted This Weekend

rmacedo@... (Rob Macedo) — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 05:04:51 -0700

Hello to all...

With the activation for Major Hurricane Melissa over 5 days this week, the VoIP Hurricane Prep Net for Saturday 11/1/25 is canceled. Our next VoIP Hurricane Prep Net will be Saturday 11/8/25 unless a net activation for a hurricane occurs which is currently not expected. A final Hurricane Melissa report will be posted this weekend. We appreciate everyone's support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!

73,Rob-KD1CY.

Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net

VoIP Hurricane Net Activation Situation Report #3 – Hurricane Melissa Day-1 Through Day-3 Operations & Upcoming Day-4 Thursday 10/30/25 Operations

rmacedo@... (Rob Macedo) — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 03:58:19 -0700

Hello to all...

**VoIP Hurricane Net Activation Secured at 10 PM EDT Wednesday Evening as Hurricane Melissa moved away from the Bahamas. Melissa slammed Eastern Cuba and the Bahamas with hurricane force winds, heavy rainfall and coastal storm surge flooding resulting in tree/power line and structural damage and significant flooding of neighborhoods . While direct Amateur Radio contact with these areas did not occur, report relaying from various online weather station and social media were utilized and the weather station info from the Bahamas was utilized in NHC advisories Wednesday Evening.**
**The VoIP Hurricane Net is likely to activate once again at 5 PM EDT Thursday for Hurricane Melissa and its passage by Bermuda as it is currently close enough where hurricane conditions are expected and a Hurricane Warning is in effect for Bermuda. This will be the final activation for Hurricane Melissa as she will become post tropical after passage by Bermuda late tonight/early Friday Morning.**
**A reminder that the Saturday 11/1/25 VoIP Hurricane Prep Net is Cancelled due to extended VoIP Hurricane Net Activation Operations**

During Wednesday, Melissa slammed Eastern Cuba and the Bahamas with hurricane force winds, heavy rainfall and coastal storm surge flooding resulting in tree/power line and structural damage and significant flooding of neighborhoods . While direct Amateur Radio contact with these areas did not occur, report relaying from various online weather station and social media were utilized and the weather station info from the Bahamas was utilized in NHC advisories Wednesay Evening. Rainfall as high as 15" was recorded in Eastern Cuba as relayed from reports gathered from the Cuban Meteorological office, with trees and power lines down and structural damage to roofs and even some structural collapses. Highest wind gust on Eastern Cuba recorded was 116 MPH. In the Bahamas, a weather station in Pitts Town - Crooked Island Bahamas gusted to 88 MPH. All reports including pictures/videos from social media can be seen at the report viewer at the following link:

https://www.voipwx.net/qilan/nhcwx/list_VOIP_records1?auth=OK

The VoIP Hurricane Net is likely to activate once again at 5 PM EDT Thursday for Hurricane Melissa and its passage by Bermuda as it is currently close enough where hurricane conditions are expected and a Hurricane Warning is in effect for Bermuda. This will be the final activation for Hurricane Melissa as she will become post tropical after passage by Bermuda tonight/early Friday Morning.

The situation reports from Monday and Tuesday are listed below followed by the activation plans for Thursday.

During Tuesday, the full brunt of Category-5 Major Hurricane Melissa was felt over Jamaica. Melissa caused catastrophic damage in Jamaica with roofs off parts of 5 hospitals, hotel roof damage, roof damage to homes and numerous trees and wires down. Significant damage was confirmed at the Montego Bay Jamaica Airport. Storm Surge flooding in Southwest Jamaica was also significant along with significant to catastrophic inland river/stream flooding from heavy rainfall. At least one Amateur Radio Operator lost his antenna tower due to the catastrophic damaging winds of Melissa. Many of the weather stations that were online Tuesday Morning were no longer reporting but some reports were sent in before they went down. We also received one very high-end report confirming category 5 winds that we are working to validate from an Amateur Radio Operator, the same one that lost their tower. We are appreciative to a number of Hams who relayed reports from Jamaican News Radio, Amateur Radio HF and other outlets today. This is a way Amateur Radio Operators that are not in the affected area and can help relay reports from within the affected area. Special thanks to AE4WX-Mark, KC5FM-Lloyd and KK7AHR-George for their robust net control support today. Over 45 webform reports were sent with many of the reports containing multiple reports via social media, direct Amateur Radio Jamaican Station reports and relayed reports from Amateur Radio Operators outside of the affected area with contacts in the affected area.

During Monday, Jamaica experienced lower end tropical storm force conditions due to the slow speed of Melissa to the south and southeast of the island. Wind Gusts of 40-50 MPH were common along with heavy rainfall. These conditions downed trees and power lines and caused flooding with numerous road closures due to flooding, trees and wires down and even a few sinkholes from heavy rainfall. Earlier in the afternoon, Jamaica had 51,000 customers of 700,000 without power but some power was able to be restored due to Melissa's slower movement such that about 21,000 were without power as of approximately 11 PM EDT this evening. Special thanks to K2DCD-Dennis, KC5FM-Lloyd, AE4WX-Mark and KK7AHR-George for their support of Net Control Operations for the net. A total of 40 reports were sent into the National Hurricane Center were sent in via various sources that included online weather stations and social media between Sunday Afternoon through Monday Evening. Our report viewer below shows the reports submitted:

The report viewer can be seen here:

https://www.voipwx.net/qilan/nhcwx/list_VOIP_records1?auth=OK

The rest of this update is from the activation notice with the headline updates above and updates to some of the video streaming services provided by N0VZC-Mike Norrbom:

Here are the VoIP Hurricane Net Plans for Major Hurricane Melissa as of Thursday Morning 650 AM EDT:

The VoIP Hurricane Net is likely to activate once again at 5 PM EDT Thursday for Hurricane Melissa and its passage by Bermuda as it is currently close enough where hurricane conditions are expected and a Hurricane Warning is in effect for Bermuda. This will be the final activation for Hurricane Melissa as she will become post tropical after passage by Bermuda tonight/early Friday Morning.

We ask any and all Amateur Radio Operators who may know of Amateur Radio or non-Amateur Radio Operators in the affected area of Bermuda to give any and all reports from their area. In addition, any folks that can monitor online weather stations, reliable social media sources for reports to get to our net team would be helpful and then our team can discern the data that gets sent to WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center.

Any pictures or videos of wind damage, river/stream/urban/storm surge flooding etc. can be sent to our voipwxnet Facebook and Twitter feeds or the following email address: pics@... and credit will be given to the Amateur Radio Operator, weather spotter or individual that took the photos and media and be shared with the Amateur Radio team at the National Hurricane Center and other agencies and outlets.

Advisories on Melissa can be seen off of the Atlantic Tropical Products menu selection on the voipwxnet web site, via our Facebook and Twitter feeds, and off the National Hurricane Center web site via the following link:
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov

Reports as obtained via the VoIP Hurricane Net from Amateur Radio Operators in the affected area, relays from the affected area or from APRS/CWOP Weather Station feeds and other social media outlets can be found at the following link:
https://www.voipwx.net/qilan/nhcwx/list_VOIP_records1?auth=OK

APRS, Winlink, AllStar, Hams Over IP and other resources that can be monitored are as follows:
APRS kc5fm-9
Winlink KC5FM
Allstar 28848
Echolink KC5FM-R 906281
Hams Over IP 15154
Amateur Wire 30415154
DMR TGIF 31207
P25 31207
DSTAR XLXOKL C
Yaesu Fusion 31207
M17-SUN module A

Stations outside the affected area that do not have relays into the affected area who would like to listen into the VoIP Hurricane Net can use any of the following systems for listen-only purposes and can connect on either Echolink or IRLP:
*NEW-ENG3* Echolink conference node: 9123/IRLP 9123
*SKY_GATE* Echolink conference node: 868981/IRLP 9252
*KC4QLP-C* Echolink conference node: 290251
*ARERT* Echolink conference node: 902723 (Also bridged to Allstar on Node 273660 and on the YCS311 C4FM Server at http://c4fm.mntrbo.net ID:74)
*FLORIDA* Echolink conference node: 3082

These three streaming audio feeds should be available. Those streaming audio feeds are as follows:
Streaming feed 1: http://74.208.24.77:8000 Provided by KC4QLP-Bob Carter
Streaming feed 2: http://radio.arert.net:8000/ARERT -Provided by the ARERT conference owners and sysops
Streaming feed 3: https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/38868 -Provided by the ARERT conference owners and sysops

Video streams will be provided by ARERT if they find video feeds from the affected area and will have audio from the hurricane net on it. Those streams are below:
Video stream feed: https://www.liveweatherusa.com/
Special thanks to N0VZC-Mike Norrbom and the ARERT sysops for their support of these feeds.

Please note that there could be additional listen only nodes and streaming feeds. If time allows, this info will be updated via the voipwxnet web site and social media feeds.

A reminder that the VoIP Hurricane Prep Net for Saturday Evening 11/1/25 has been canceled. The next VoIP Hurricane Prep Net will be Saturday Evening 11/8/25 unless a hurricane net activation is required.

The VoIP Hurricane Net Management team continues to closely watch Hurricane Melissa. Thanks to all for their continued support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!

73,Rob-KD1CY.
Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net

Re: VoIP Hurricane Net Activation Situation Report #2 – Major Hurricane Melissa Day-1/Day-2 Operations & Upcoming Day-3 Wednesday 10/29/25 Operations

kc8cmq@... (Shari Shearer) — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:47:49 -0700

Thank

VoIP Hurricane Net Activation Situation Report #2 – Major Hurricane Melissa Day-1/Day-2 Operations & Upcoming Day-3 Wednesday 10/29/25 Operations

rmacedo@... (Rob Macedo) — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:50:40 -0700

Hello to all...

**VoIP Hurricane Net shifting to a monitor/listen only mode for the overnight hours Tuesday Evening with Major Hurricane Melissa expected to approach Eastern Cuba during the late overnight hours into Wednesday Morning and then into the Bahamas later Wednesday. The VoIP Hurricane Net will reactivate at or before 7 AM EDT Wednesday Morning supporting, WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center Operations.**
**Melissa caused catastrophic damage in Jamaica with roofs off parts of 5 hospitals, hotel roof damage, roof damage to homes and numerous trees and wires down. Significant damage was confirmed at the Montego Bay Jamaica Airport. Storm Surge flooding in Southwest Jamaica was also significant along with significant to catastrophic inland river/stream flooding from heavy rainfall. At least one Amateur Radio Operator lost his antenna tower due to the catastrophic damaging winds of Melissa**
**A reminder that the Saturday 11/1/25 VoIP Hurricane Prep Net is Cancelled due to extended VoIP Hurricane Net Activation Operations**

During Tuesday, the full brunt of Category-5 Major Hurricane Melissa was felt over Jamaica. Melissa caused catastrophic damage in Jamaica with roofs off parts of 5 hospitals, hotel roof damage, roof damage to homes and numerous trees and wires down. Significant damage was confirmed at the Montego Bay Jamaica Airport. Storm Surge flooding in Southwest Jamaica was also significant along with significant to catastrophic inland river/stream flooding from heavy rainfall. At least one Amateur Radio Operator lost his antenna tower due to the catastrophic damaging winds of Melissa. Many of the weather stations that were online Tuesday Morning were no longer reporting but some reports were sent in before they went down. We also received one very high-end report confirming category 5 winds that we are working to validate from an Amateur Radio Operator, the same one that lost their tower. We are appreciative to a number of Hams who relayed reports from Jamaican News Radio, Amateur Radio HF and other outlets today. This is a way Amateur Radio Operators that are not in the affected area and can help relay reports from within the affected area. Special thanks to AE4WX-Mark, KC5FM-Lloyd and KK7AHR-George for their robust net control support today. Over 45 webform reports were sent with many of the reports containing multiple reports via social media, direct Amateur Radio Jamaican Station reports and relayed reports from Amateur Radio Operators outside of the affected area with contacts in the affected area. The report viewer can be seen here:

https://www.voipwx.net/qilan/nhcwx/list_VOIP_records1?auth=OK

The situation report from Monday is listed below followed by the activation plans for Wednesday.

During Monday, Jamaica experienced lower end tropical storm force conditions due to the slow speed of Melissa to the south and southeast of the island. Wind Gusts of 40-50 MPH were common along with heavy rainfall. These conditions downed trees and power lines and caused flooding with numerous road closures due to flooding, trees and wires down and even a few sinkholes from heavy rainfall. Earlier in the afternoon, Jamaica had 51,000 customers of 700,000 without power but some power was able to be restored due to Melissa's slower movement such that about 21,000 were without power as of approximately 11 PM EDT this evening. Special thanks to K2DCD-Dennis, KC5FM-Lloyd, AE4WX-Mark and KK7AHR-George for their support of Net Control Operations for the net. A total of 40 reports were sent into the National Hurricane Center were sent in via various sources that included online weather stations and social media between Sunday Afternoon through Monday Evening. Our report viewer below shows the reports submitted:

The rest of this update is from the activation notice with the headline updates above and updates to some of the video streaming services provided by N0VZC-Mike Norrbom:

Here are the VoIP Hurricane Net Plans for Major Hurricane Melissa as of Tuesday Evening 1140 PM EDT:

VoIP Hurricane Net shifting to a monitor/listen only mode for the overnight hours Tuesday Evening with Major Hurricane Melissa expected to approach Eastern Cuba during the late overnight hours into Wednesday Morning and then into the Bahamas later Wednesday. The VoIP Hurricane Net will reactivate at or before 7 AM EDT Wednesday Morning supporting, WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center Operations.

We ask any and all Amateur Radio Operators who may know of Amateur Radio or non-Amateur Radio Operators in the affected area of Eastern Cuba into the Bahamas and Turks & Caicos Islands to give any and all reports from their area. In addition, any folks that can monitor online weather stations, reliable social media sources for reports to get to our net team would be helpful and then our team can discern the data that gets sent to WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center.

Any pictures or videos of wind damage, river/stream/urban/storm surge flooding etc. can be sent to our voipwxnet Facebook and Twitter feeds or the following email address: pics@... and credit will be given to the Amateur Radio Operator, weather spotter or individual that took the photos and media and be shared with the Amateur Radio team at the National Hurricane Center and other agencies and outlets.

Advisories on Melissa can be seen off of the Atlantic Tropical Products menu selection on the voipwxnet web site, via our Facebook and Twitter feeds, and off the National Hurricane Center web site via the following link:
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov

Reports as obtained via the VoIP Hurricane Net from Amateur Radio Operators in the affected area, relays from the affected area or from APRS/CWOP Weather Station feeds and other social media outlets can be found at the following link:
https://www.voipwx.net/qilan/nhcwx/list_VOIP_records1?auth=OK

APRS, Winlink, AllStar, Hams Over IP and other resources that can be monitored are as follows:
APRS kc5fm-9
Winlink KC5FM
Allstar 28848
Echolink KC5FM-R 906281
Hams Over IP 15154
Amateur Wire 30415154
DMR TGIF 31207
P25 31207
DSTAR XLXOKL C
Yaesu Fusion 31207
M17-SUN module A

Stations outside the affected area that do not have relays into the affected area who would like to listen into the VoIP Hurricane Net can use any of the following systems for listen-only purposes and can connect on either Echolink or IRLP:
*NEW-ENG3* Echolink conference node: 9123/IRLP 9123
*SKY_GATE* Echolink conference node: 868981/IRLP 9252
*KC4QLP-C* Echolink conference node: 290251
*ARERT* Echolink conference node: 902723 (Also bridged to Allstar on Node 273660 and on the YCS311 C4FM Server at http://c4fm.mntrbo.net ID:74)
*FLORIDA* Echolink conference node: 3082

These three streaming audio feeds should be available. Those streaming audio feeds are as follows:
Streaming feed 1: http://74.208.24.77:8000 Provided by KC4QLP-Bob Carter
Streaming feed 2: http://radio.arert.net:8000/ARERT -Provided by the ARERT conference owners and sysops
Streaming feed 3: https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/38868 -Provided by the ARERT conference owners and sysops

Video streams will be provided by ARERT if they find video feeds from the affected area and will have audio from the hurricane net on it. Those streams are below:
Video stream feed: https://www.liveweatherusa.com/
Special thanks to N0VZC-Mike Norrbom and the ARERT sysops for their support of these feeds.

Please note that there could be additional listen only nodes and streaming feeds. If time allows, this info will be updated via the voipwxnet web site and social media feeds.

A reminder that the VoIP Hurricane Prep Net for Saturday Evening 11/1/25 has been canceled. The next VoIP Hurricane Prep Net will be Saturday Evening 11/8/25 unless a hurricane net activation is required.

The VoIP Hurricane Net Management team continues to closely watch Major Hurricane Melissa. Thanks to all for their continued support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!

73,Rob-KD1CY.
Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net

VoIP Hurricane Net Activation Situation Report #1 - Major Hurricane Melissa Day-1 Operations and Upcoming Day-2 Tuesday 10/28/25 Operations

rmacedo@... (Rob Macedo) — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:22:25 -0700

Hello to all...

**VoIP Hurricane Net shifting to a monitor/listen only mode for the overnight hours Monday Evening due to Major Hurricane Melissa's slower movement toward Jamaica. The VoIP Hurricane Net will reactivate at or before 7 AM EDT Tuesday Morning coincident with WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center Operations.**

**Melissa has now made the turn North-Northeast and will be moving toward Jamaica overnight with the worst conditions in Jamaica Tuesday AM through PM and then conditions will worsen in Eastern Cuba Tuesday Night into Wednesday followed by the Turks & Caicos Islands and Central/Southeast Bahamas Wednesday. After that time, a threat to Bermuda will be monitored for Thursday Night into Friday**

**A reminder that the Saturday 11/1/25 VoIP Hurricane Prep Net is Cancelled due to extended VoIP Hurricane Net Activation Operations**

During Monday, Jamaica experienced lower end tropical storm force conditions due to the slow speed of Melissa to the south and southeast of the island. Wind Gusts of 40-50 MPH were common along with heavy rainfall. These conditions downed trees and power lines and caused flooding with numerous road closures due to flooding, trees and wires down and even a few sinkholes from heavy rainfall. Earlier in the afternoon, Jamaica had 51,000 customers of 700,000 without power but some power was able to be restored due to Melissa's slower movement such that about 21,000 were without power as of approximately 11 PM EDT this evening. Special thanks to K2DCD-Dennis, KC5FM-Lloyd, AE4WX-Mark and KK7AHR-George for their support of Net Control Operations for the net. A total of 40 reports were sent into the National Hurricane Center were sent in via various sources that included online weather stations and social media between Sunday Afternoon through Monday Evening. Our report viewer below shows the reports submitted:

https://www.voipwx.net/qilan/nhcwx/list_VOIP_records1?auth=OK

The rest of this update is from the activation notice with the headline updates above and updates to some of the video streaming services provided by N0VZC-Mike Norrbom:

Here are the VoIP Hurricane Net Plans for Major Hurricane Melissa as of Monday Evening at 1115 PM EDT:

VoIP Hurricane Net shifting to a monitor/listen only mode for the overnight hours Monday Evening due to Major Hurricane Melissa's slower movement toward Jamaica. The VoIP Hurricane Net will reactivate at or before 7 AM EDT Tuesday Morning coincident with WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center Operations. Melissa has now made the turn North-Northeast and will be moving toward Jamaica overnight with the worst conditions in Jamaica Tuesday AM through PM and then conditions will worsen in Eastern Cuba Tuesday Night into Wednesday followed by the Turks & Caicos Islands and Central/Southeast Bahamas Wednesday. After that time, a threat to Bermuda will be monitored for Thursday Night into Friday

We ask any and all Amateur Radio Operators who may know of Amateur Radio or non-Amateur Radio Operators in the affected area starting with Jamaica and through Eastern Cuba into the Bahamas and Turks & Caicos Islands to give any and all reports from their area. In addition, any folks that can monitor online weather stations, reliable social media sources for reports to get to our net team would be helpful and then our team can discern the data that gets sent to WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center.

Any pictures or videos of wind damage, river/stream/urban/storm surge flooding etc. can be sent to our voipwxnet Facebook and Twitter feeds or the following email address: pics@... and credit will be given to the Amateur Radio Operator, weather spotter or individual that took the photos and media and be shared with the Amateur Radio team at the National Hurricane Center and other agencies and outlets.

Advisories on Melissa can be seen off of the Atlantic Tropical Products menu selection on the voipwxnet web site, via our Facebook and Twitter feeds, and off the National Hurricane Center web site via the following link:
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov

Reports as obtained via the VoIP Hurricane Net from Amateur Radio Operators in the affected area, relays from the affected area or from APRS/CWOP Weather Station feeds and other social media outlets can be found at the following link:
https://www.voipwx.net/qilan/nhcwx/list_VOIP_records1?auth=OK

APRS, Winlink, AllStar, Hams Over IP and other resources that can be monitored are as follows:
APRS kc5fm-9
Winlink KC5FM
Allstar 28848
Echolink KC5FM-R 906281
Hams Over IP 15154
Amateur Wire 30415154
DMR TGIF 31207
P25 31207
DSTAR XLXOKL C
Yaesu Fusion 31207
M17-SUN module A

Stations outside the affected area that do not have relays into the affected area who would like to listen into the VoIP Hurricane Net can use any of the following systems for listen-only purposes and can connect on either Echolink or IRLP:
*NEW-ENG3* Echolink conference node: 9123/IRLP 9123
*SKY_GATE* Echolink conference node: 868981/IRLP 9252
*KC4QLP-C* Echolink conference node: 290251
*ARERT* Echolink conference node: 902723 (Also bridged to Allstar on Node 273660 and on the YCS311 C4FM Server at http://c4fm.mntrbo.net ID:74)
*FLORIDA* Echolink conference node: 3082

These three streaming audio feeds should be available. Those streaming audio feeds are as follows:
Streaming feed 1: http://74.208.24.77:8000 Provided by KC4QLP-Bob Carter
Streaming feed 2: http://radio.arert.net:8000/ARERT -Provided by the ARERT conference owners and sysops
Streaming feed 3: https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/38868 -Provided by the ARERT conference owners and sysops

Video streams will be provided by ARERT if they find video feeds from the affected area and will have audio from the hurricane net on it. Those streams are below:
Video stream feed: https://www.liveweatherusa.com/
Special thanks to N0VZC-Mike Norrbom and the ARERT sysops for their support of these feeds.

Please note that there could be additional listen only nodes and streaming feeds. If time allows, this info will be updated via the voipwxnet web site and social media feeds.

A reminder that the VoIP Hurricane Prep Net for Saturday Evening 11/1/25 has been canceled. The next VoIP Hurricane Prep Net will be Saturday Evening 11/8/25 unless a hurricane net activation is required.

The VoIP Hurricane Net Management team continues to closely watch Major Hurricane Melissa. Thanks to all for their continued support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!

73,Rob-KD1CY.
Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net

Cancelled Event: VoIP SKYWARN/Hurricane Prep Net - Saturday, November 1, 2025

@... — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 18:12:32 -0700

Nov

Sat

CANCELLED: VoIP SKYWARN/Hurricane Prep Net

By rob macedo kd1cy.rob@...

This event has been cancelled.

Date and Time

Saturday, November 1, 2025
8:00pm to 9:00pm
(UTC-04:00) America/New York

Description

**Web Address: http://www.voipwx.net **
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VoIP Hurricane Net Activation – Major Hurricane Melissa – Monday Morning 10/27/25 – 8 AM EDT through Late Wednesday Evening 10/29/25

rmacedo@... (Rob Macedo) — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:00:00 -0700

Hello to all..

**The VoIP Hurricane Net will activate at 8 AM EDT Monday Morning through at least late Wednesday Evening for Major Hurricane Melissa and impacts on Jamaica, Southwest Haiti, Eastern Cuba, the Turks & Caicos Islands. The net, on *WX_TALK* Echolink conference node: 7203/IRLP 9219 system and other VoIP radio systems via the KC5FM-R node is supporting WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio station at the National Hurricane Center in Miami Florida. Note during overnight hours and at other points in this three day period, we will be in an activation monitoring mode for any stations that call on the system as these areas can be difficult to have direct contact with given their infrastructure etc.**
**WX4NHC will also be active with their Amateur Radio Station as well during this timeframe starting at 7 PM EDT Monday Evening.**
**We ask any and all Amateur Radio Operators who may know of Amateur Radio or non-Amateur Radio Operators in the affected area starting with Jamaica and through Eastern Cuba into the Bahamas and Turks & Caicos Islands to give any and all reports from their area. In addition, any folks that can monitor online weather stations, reliable social media sources for reports to get to our net team would be helpful and then our team can discern the data that gets sent to WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center**
**The VoIP Hurricane Prep Net for Saturday Evening 11/1/25 has been canceled. The next VoIP Hurricane Prep Net will be Saturday Evening 11/8/25 unless a hurricane net activation is required.**

Here are the VoIP Hurricane Net Plans for Major Hurricane Melissa as of Sunday Evening 10/26/25 at 800 PM EDT:

The VoIP Hurricane Net will activate at 8 AM EDT Monday Morning through at least late Wednesday Evening for Major Hurricane Melissa and impacts on Jamaica, Southwest Haiti, Eastern Cuba, the Turks & Caicos Islands. The net, on *WX_TALK* Echolink conference node: 7203/IRLP 9219 system and other VoIP radio systems via the KC5FM-R node is supporting WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio station at the National Hurricane Center in Miami Florida. Note during overnight hours and at other points in this three day period, we will be in an activation monitoring mode for any stations that call on the system as these areas can be difficult to have direct contact with given their infrastructure etc. WX4NHC will also be active with their Amateur Radio Station as well during this timeframe starting at 7 PM EDT Monday Evening.

We ask any and all Amateur Radio Operators who may know of Amateur Radio or non-Amateur Radio Operators in the affected area starting with Jamaica and through Eastern Cuba into the Bahamas and Turks & Caicos Islands to give any and all reports from their area. In addition, any folks that can monitor online weather stations, reliable social media sources for reports to get to our net team would be helpful and then our team can discern the data that gets sent to WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center.

Any pictures or videos of wind damage, river/stream/urban/storm surge flooding etc. can be sent to our voipwxnet Facebook and Twitter feeds or the following email address: pics@... and credit will be given to the Amateur Radio Operator, weather spotter or individual that took the photos and media and be shared with the Amateur Radio team at the National Hurricane Center and other agencies and outlets.

Advisories on Melissa can be seen off of the Atlantic Tropical Products menu selection on the voipwxnet web site, via our Facebook and Twitter feeds, and off the National Hurricane Center web site via the following link:
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov

Reports as obtained via the VoIP Hurricane Net from Amateur Radio Operators in the affected area, relays from the affected area or from APRS/CWOP Weather Station feeds and other social media outlets can be found at the following link:
https://www.voipwx.net/qilan/nhcwx/list_VOIP_records1?auth=OK

APRS, Winlink, AllStar, Hams Over IP and other resources that can be monitored are as follows:
APRS kc5fm-9
Winlink KC5FM
Allstar 28848
Echolink KC5FM-R 906281
Hams Over IP 15154
Amateur Wire 30415154
DMR TGIF 31207
P25 31207
DSTAR XLXOKL C
Yaesu Fusion 31207
M17-SUN module A

Stations outside the affected area that do not have relays into the affected area who would like to listen into the VoIP Hurricane Net can use any of the following systems for listen-only purposes and can connect on either Echolink or IRLP:
*NEW-ENG3* Echolink conference node: 9123/IRLP 9123
*SKY_GATE* Echolink conference node: 868981/IRLP 9252
*KC4QLP-C* Echolink conference node: 290251
*ARERT* Echolink conference node: 902723 (Also bridged to Allstar on Node 273660 and on the YCS311 C4FM Server at http://c4fm.mntrbo.net ID:74)
*FLORIDA* Echolink conference node: 3082

These three streaming audio feeds should be available. Those streaming audio feeds are as follows:
Streaming feed 1: http://74.208.24.77:8000 -Provided by KC4QLP-Bob Carter
Streaming feed 2: http://radio.arert.net:8000/ARERT -Provided by the ARERT conference owners and sysops
Streaming feed 3: https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/38868 -Provided by the ARERT conference owners and sysops

Video streams will be provided by ARERT if they find video feeds from the affected area and will have audio from the hurricane net on it. Those streams are below:
Video stream feed 1: https://www.twitch.tv/pp93news
Video stream feed 2: https://dlive.tv/ARERT
Special thanks to N0VZC-Mike Norrbom and the ARERT sysops for their support of these feeds.

Please note that there could be additional listen only nodes and streaming feeds. If time allows, this info will be updated via the voipwxnet web site and social media feeds.

The VoIP Hurricane Prep Net for Saturday Evening 11/1/25 has been canceled. The next VoIP Hurricane Prep Net will be Saturday Evening 11/8/25 unless a hurricane net activation is required.

The VoIP Hurricane Net Management team continues to closely watch Major Hurricane Melissa. Thanks to all for their continued support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!

73,Rob-KD1CY.
Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net