South East Michigan Skywarn

[mbook87]

I was trying to do some searching on this and got a bit confused.

I am a Skywarn spotter for my county on the West Side of Michigan. However, I visit family and friends often on the south east side of the state. Currently all I have is an analog radio. In West, MI our NWS office delegates Skywarn to the county level. That being said it is the counties that create the Skywarn teams.

So in my readings Gaylord and Detroit office instead have a regional coordinator that will run the Skywarn teams and nets. I'm pretty sure if I'm out that way during a storm event I can relay ground truth data but how? I see that Detroit NWS uses the DMR system through MI5 and I think on event 1. As stated I don't have a DMR radio just plain ole analog.

I noticed many counties such as Genesee, Oakland, Monroe, Macomb, and a few others are listed to have an analog repeaters designated for Skywarn for that county.

So if I'm tuned in to that repeater am I going to hear the active NET from the NWS. I was reading that the analog is patched through to the DMR.

If there is any SE, MI Skywarn HAMs out there willing to give insight and how it works out that way it would be greatly appreciated.

 

[smithken]

The DMR system on MI5 is for key stations ONLY. There is one key station per county, the key station listens to the county net (usually on 2 meters) and relays any pertinent information to the MICON net on the DMR system. At most there should be 18 stations on the MICON net, one for each of the 17 counties MICON covers and a net control station.