Everything Ham Radio Podcast

Hello everybody and welcome back to the Everything Ham Radio Podcast! In this episode we are going to be talking about Skywarn, we talk about the Sioux Empire Amateur Radio Club in our amateur radio club spotlight, we talk about some upcoming events/contests and Hamfests for the next two weeks and wrap it up with some news from around the hobby!     Tech Corner - Skywarn Skywarn is a little different from ARES and RACES in that it is not as much of a club type organization like ARES and RACES is. With Skywarn yopu don't even have to be an amateur radio operator to be a skywarn spotter. Skywarn was started by the National Weather Service in the late 1960's, but it didn't really take off until the mid 1970's. Since then it has grown to between 350,000 and 400,000 trained spotters and it continues to grow every year. Skywarn spotters are the general public's first line of defense when it comes to the wrath of mother nature. On an average year, there are over 10,000 severe thunderstorms, 5,000 floods an