{"id":70,"date":"2008-10-28T22:17:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T03:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2016-04-10T06:47:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T11:47:33","slug":"skywarn-recognition-day-december-6-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Skywarn Recognition Day &#8211; December 6, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2008 National Weather Service<br \/>\nSkywarn Recognition  Day<br \/>\nDecember 6, 2008<br \/>\n0000-2400 UTC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SKYWARN Recognition  Day was developed in 1999 by the National Weather Service and the American Radio  Relay League. It celebrates the contributions that volunteer SKYWARN radio  operators make to the National Weather Service. During the day SKYWARN operators  visit NWS offices and contact other radio operators across the world.<\/p>\n<p>Check with  your local National Weather Service\u00a0office to see if they are participating  in this event or having an &#8220;open house&#8221;. It is not a contest, but rather an  operating event. Amateur radio operators will be on the air from National  Weather Service\u00a0offices and from their home stations as well. Depending  upon how many NWS stations a ham operator contacts they will be given  certificates of varying levels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/skywarn_2006_w2ik.jpg\" title=\"Skywarn Recognition Cert from 2006\"><!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/skywarn_2006_w2ik.thumbnail.jpg\" title=\"Skywarn Recognition Cert from 2006\" alt=\"Skywarn Recognition Cert from 2006\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/a>The certificate (show to the left) was given to W2IK in  2006\u00a0for contacting over\u00a040 different NWS stations all across the US.  Be a part of this fun event by either visiting your local NWS or by making  contacts with as many stations as you can.<\/p>\n<p>For\u00a0updated information  concerning this event, just go to:<\/p>\n<p><strong>http:\/\/www.crh.noaa.gov\/hamradio\/<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At this  site,\u00a0you can get a list of participating NWS offices, their call signs, and  other useful information. Check\u00a0this  site\u00a0often as additional participating offices will\u00a0be listed\u00a0as  the day approaches. I hope you&#8217;ll join in on the fun and learn more about the  National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>Bob\u00a0W2IK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2008 National Weather Service Skywarn Recognition Day December 6, 2008 0000-2400 UTC SKYWARN Recognition Day was developed in 1999 by the National Weather Service and the American Radio Relay League. It celebrates the contributions that volunteer SKYWARN radio operators make to the National Weather Service. During the day SKYWARN operators visit NWS offices and contact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7605,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/7605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}