2018 ARRL Field Day is June 23-24
Submitted by wd5m on Wed, 2018-06-20 14:23
The Fort Worth NWS SKYWARN Radio Desk team will be active on several bands and modes during Field Day, Saturday-Sunday, June 23-24, from the Fort Worth National Weather Service Forecast Office. Our special event call sign is W5T. We hope to contact you, and add your call sign and information to our log. We'll publish the bands, frequencies, and other information periodically during the event on the wx5fwd.org web site and social media WX5FWD Twitter account and FaceBook.
ARRL Field Day is the most popular on-the-air event held annually in the US and Canada. On the fourth weekend of June, more than 40,000 radio amateurs gather with their clubs, groups or simply with friends to operate from remote locations.
Facebook support for API postings by Weather Message may end August 1, 2018
Submitted by wd5m on Sat, 2018-04-28 08:49Periodically, when the embedded "SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT" section references "spotter activation" we have published the NWS Hazardous Weather Outlook (HWO) product on Facebook, including links to the full text and other related information. We do this hoping to provide wider visibility to spotters, and others, that may need to check their severe weather forecasts plans. We automated this HWO posting using the Weather Message software package.
Recently, Facebook posted a notice on their blog about changes to their API that will prevent Weather Message, and similar software, from publishing messages on Facebook. This change by Facebook is schedule to occur August 1, 2018.
2017 SKYWARN Recognition Day QSL Log
Submitted by wd5m on Sun, 2017-12-10 12:02
Thank you! Everyone who participates in SKYWARN storm spotting makes SKYWARN Recognition Day a wonderful event. We hope everyone enjoyed themselves.
The W5W/WX5FWD station logged 280 contacts in total.
We have created a log of contacts with a link to display a QSL card for printing. Click on the Read More to display the QSL Log page.
ARRL Field Day 2017 QSL Log
Submitted by wd5m on Sat, 2017-07-15 13:26
We have published a preliminary log of Field Day contacts with a feature to display a QSL card for possible printing. We will be reviewing and updating as necessary over the next several days.
Click on Read More to display the QSL Log page.
Preliminary WX5FWD/W5T's Contest Summary Report for ARRL-FIELD-DAY
Total Contacts = 283 Operating Period: 2017/06/24 18:00 - 2017/06/25 18:00 Total Contacts by Band and Mode: Band CW Phone Dig Total % ---- -- ----- --- ----- --- 80 0 1 0 1 0 40 0 107 0 107 38 20 0 29 1 30 11 15 0 11 0 11 4 10 0 3 0 3 1 6 0 131 0 131 46 -- ----- --- ----- --- Total 0 282 1 283 100 Here is a summary of the last few years for comparison: 2017 - QSOs 283 QSO points 568 Bonus points 1050 2016 - QSOs 652 QSO points 1318 Bonus points 850 2015 - QSOs 954 QSO points 1908 Bonus points 970 2014 - QSOs 202 QSO points 408 Bonus points 650
