EARS Skywarn Participation

Through the cooperation of Illiana Skywarn, EARS is proud to announce its partnership with Central Indiana SKYWARN. The 146.925 and 443.925 repeaters in Vincennes (with a remote receiver in Farmersburg) are now being used to save even more lives.

During times of severe weather, 146.925 and 443.925 will be linked through the W9SKI 444.350 repeater in Terre Haute to the W9ICE 146.97 repeater (and others) in Indianapolis so that local SKYWARN nets can relay weather information directly to the National Weather Service office in Indianapolis.

When the repeaters are linked, we ask that all local traffic be halted. If you have severe weather to report, please report it to your LOCAL Skywarn net as soon as possible. The net control of each local Skywarn net will designate a liason to forward only the information requested by the National Weather Service on to Indianapolis.

Clay County 146.685 - (CTCSS 151.4) / 145.230 - (CTCSS 151.4)
Daviess County 146.670 - / 147.315 +
Greene County 147.240 + (CTCSS 103.5)
Knox County 146.670 -
Lawrence County 146.730 - (CTCSS 107.2)
Martin County 145.210 -
Owen County 146.985 -
Parke County 146.715 - / 146.745 -
Putnam County 147.330 +
Sullivan County 146.685 - (CTCSS 151.4) / backup 145.230 - (CTCSS 151.4)
Vigo County 146.685 - (CTCSS 151.4) / 145.230 - (CTCSS 151.4)
Vermillion County 146.715 - / 146.745 -

ALL hams are encouraged to check into the Central Indiana Skywarn TEST net, which is held on the first Monday of the month at 8:00 pm Eastern time (except holidays and times severe weather threatens).

The Evansville metro area is NOT covered by the Indianapolis National Weather Service office, but rather the Paducah office. Therefore, this link should not be used for passing information from Evansville area nets to National Weather Service unless no other means are possible. Because of this, the Evansville 145.15 repeater will NOT be linked to Vincennes while Central Indiana Skywarn nets are in progress.

Although we pursued this link to provide a way for Knox and Daviess counties to check into the SKYWARN system, ALL counties served by the EARS network are invited to make use of this link. Codes will be provided to any local SKYWARN net control operators to activate the link to 444.35.

** 444.35 is having problems with their link to 146.97, which is going to require some tower work. Once that work is completed in Terre Haute, everything should be linked in and working quite well. In the mean time, WA9DRO and others have agreed to relay information to Indianapolis while their link is down.

** After extensive testing, we are getting a signal to Terre Haute just fine. We are, however, losing the signal back from Terre Haute for a few hours in the afternoon when band conditions are at their worst. Most of the day, however, it works just great. The Terre Haute group is looking at increasing their transmitter power soon, which will rectify that problem. Be assured that if the link is on, you will be heard in Terre Haute... even if you don't hear anything back!

Local Radar	Local Conditions at Area Schools AWS WeatherNet	NWS Regional NexRad
WFIE-TV 14 Evansville, IN	WFIE (Evansville Area)	Indianapolis, IN NexRad
WEHT-TV 25 Henderson, KY	WISH (Indianapolis)	Gibson Co., IN NexRad
WEHT-TV 25 Henderson, KY	WISH (Indianapolis)	Lincoln, IL NexRad
WTWO-TV 2 Terre Haute, IN	WTWO (Terre Haute Area)	Paducah, KY NexRad
WTWO-TV 2 Terre Haute, IN	WTWO (Terre Haute Area)	St. Louis, MO NexRad

Indianapolis Carmel Experimenters - W9ICE - Owners of the 146.970 - and 442.650 + repeaters, and 147.435 simplex link used for Central Indiana Skywarn (CTCSS 77.0)

Illiana SKYWARN - W9SKI - Terre Haute Area SKYWARN group, owners of the 444.350 + repeater

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