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According to the ARRL, the plan is to pass control of the June 13-14 operation to each of the net's control stations around the continental U.S., eastern Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America. Each NCS would use WX5HWN as control of the net passed from one station to the next. This is the first time the call sign has been used on the air. Operating frequencies were scheduled to be on or near 14.325 MHz and 7.268 MHz.
Meanwhile, the National
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the parent agency of the
National Weather Service and the National Hurricane Center, predicted a
quieter-than-average Atlantic hurricane season for 2015. The prediction says
it's likely there will be between 6 and 11 named storms and 3-6 hurricanes, of
which 0-2 may become major, during the June 1-November 30 "official"
hurricane season. The agency warned, though, that the risk of damaging storms
remains, noting that there were only seven named storms in 1992, but the first
of them was Hurricane Andrew, which devastated south Florida.
NOAA is also calling for
an above-normal hurricane season in the eastern Pacific.
