Southeastern Weather Net

Net Status - Offline

 

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The Southeastern Weather Net is focused on significant weather events in the Gulf Coast area of the United States. This is an area that hurricanes love to visit.

When there are no imminent training events, the Southeastern Weather Net focuses on training and creation of procedures for large scale events utilizing D-STAR as the communications medium.

The Southeastern Weather Net operates a little differently from other nets. The net is called by repeaters, with repeaters being called immediately before the net begins. Users are asked to check in by the "quick key" method. A "quick key" is unique to D-STAR in that as a station transmits, their call sign is sent. Taking advantage of that, all a user needs to do is to key down for about a second. The net controls are watching the transmission logs and can see each user as they key down. After all of the "quick keys," users are then asked to provide their name and position by voice.

Connected Repeaters

The following is a list of repeaters commonly connected to the Southeastern Weather Net

WD4STR-B Lawrenceville	KI4SBA-C Cumming	W4DOC-C Atlanta
KJ4BDF-B Buford	KI4PPF-C Huntsville	KJ4ACN-B Lakeland
W5SHV-C Shreveport	KI4WXS-C Charlotte	W4BUG-B Ft Lauderdale
K4WAK-B Tallahassee	K4DSO C Birmingham

Click on a repeater to get the D-STAR Calculator Programming for your radio.

Discussions lists for users in the Southeast

Georgia D-STAR User Group	D-STAR Digital - General D-STAR
Alabama D-STAR User Group	DVDongle User Group
Louisiana D-STAR Users Group
West Central Florida D-STAR Users Group
South Florida D-STAR Users Group
North Florida D-STAR Users Group	Southeastern US D-STAR Administrators

Operation Hints

• Make sure to leave enough time after the last transmission before you transmit
• Program your radios as if you were talking to someone local on your repeater, make sure gateway is in RPT2
• Do not key down on your local repeater unless it is your turn. If you quickly hit your PTT you can interrupt communications for the entire net.
• Check-in when your repeater is called. Don't check in when other repeaters are called. Net Control will come back around and ask for other check-ins.
• During Quick-Key check-Ins, it is okay if all stations on a repeater quickly key-down one right after another. This accelerates the net operation.

Net Controls

We are looking for a number of Net Control stations to spread the load around. Please contact info@DSTARINFO.com if you are thinking about being a net control.

Net Script

Southeastern Weather Net Script Word Format, PDF