Storm chasers

[CDX197]

Hello all. This is my first post on this forum. I have been into CBing for about 2 years and decided to give it up for a while. Now im moving on to scanners. What im wanting to know is does anyone have freq. for the storm chasers around the Lincoln area. Had a tornado close to beatrice and i would of liked to have the scanner with me so i could have seen it come down. Any info would help out greatly. Thanks CDX197

 

[scannernut59]

In Lancaster County, the hams are on 146.760.

In Gage they are on UHF, I think but maybe someone in Lincoln area could shed light on this.

Be safe.

SN 59

 

[CDX197]

hams are really talking on that channel. But isnt their a freq were the storm chasers are on?

 

[stewart00311]

Skywarn

Sometimes Stormchasers and Skywarn(NWS) Volunteers get thrown into the same bucket.
Skywarn Volunteers are just that, and report weather activity via a radio net.
Try the 145-148 Mhz search range or try 146.760 for the Lincoln repeater. Also reports can also be phoned if no net is available or the Skywarn person may not be a Ham.

The Stormchasers are more hobbist or someone who may be out to make a quick buck and sell Photo or Videos. As a prime example of what happend here in Middle Tn last week.

Skywarn volunteers are a valuable asset to the NWS (National Weather Serv.) The are the eyes on the ground to verify what the radar see's.

Here in Tn the higher populated counties will have a net during serious storms in each affected county.

Hope this sheds some light on the diffences between the 2 definitions.

Be safe out that way.

Stewart00311
Smyrna, Tn

 

[SCPD]

146.760 Is a ham repeater in Lincoln. They use it for storm spotting. If there is some bad weather coming into Lancaster County tune it in. If you don't care about hams don't listen until then.
Also try
145.310-Ashland
146.940-Omaha
145.235?-Papillion
Those are all ham repeaters used for storm spotting that I know of.

 

[NeFire242]

http://www.radioreference.com/modules.php?name=RR&aid=3306

Many fire departments also serve as spotters, you should also monitor the state-wide mutual aid low band freqs like 39.98, 39.9, etc.

 

[CDX197]

Thanks fire. Thats what i was looking for. CDX197

 

[Pro92]

Storm chaser

Hello all. This is my first post on this forum. I have been into CBing for about 2 years and decided to give it up for a while. Now im moving on to scanners. What im wanting to know is does anyone have freq. for the storm chasers around the Lincoln area. Had a tornado close to beatrice and i would of liked to have the scanner with me so i could have seen it come down. Any info would help out greatly. Thanks CDX197

Our CD uses 39.900 here in Madison. I belive Norfolk uses 39.98 ?

 

[Thunderbolt]

145.235?-Papillion
Those are all ham repeaters used for storm spotting that I know of.

145.230 MHz would be the correct frequency to program into your scanner.

73's

Ron

 

[NeFire242]

145.2350 is correct. And 145.1150 is the back-up according to the Sarpy Co page here on RR, I've heard them in use before in my scanner.

 

[SCPD]

I might want to change that in my radios.

 

[scannernut59]

Nebraska is mostly 15Khz on 2 meters now. There are some that are not but those are few compared to the ones on the 15Khz channels.

Here is a link for a Ham radio repeaters.

http://www.artscipub.com/repeaters/states/Nebraska.asp

SN 59

 

[mikeoz]

http://www.beatricene.com/react/about.html

Attached is a link to the Gage Co React for the Beatrice Area. It looks like they use 462.7000 in the GMRS range. That should be GMRS channel 21 for the little radios if you do not have a scanner. 462.6750 (GMRS channel 20) is used by Dodge County in Nebraska also.

 

[NeFire242]

Most likely because they cannot get into the Hall County 146.9400 machine, which works much better than the Douglas county one. =p

 

[wechri01]

Madison County Spotters

I caught some storm spotters on my portable scanner during a severe thunderstorm that went through North East Nebraska this weekend. They followed the storm from Madison to Wayne County looking for severe weather and possible rotation. The three spotters could be heard on 147.030, is this a Ham radio frequency?

 

[W0JJK]

Yes, that is a repeater in Wayne, NE. I believe the callsign on it is N0ZQR.

KC0LOD

 

[Pro92]

I caught some storm spotters on my portable scanner during a severe thunderstorm that went through North East Nebraska this weekend. They followed the storm from Madison to Wayne County looking for severe weather and possible rotation. The three spotters could be heard on 147.030, is this a Ham radio frequency?

Yes that one of two HAM radios but the main one for Madison/Norfolk is 146.7300 . I was listing to Norfolk FD spotters on 854.9875 if you can get 800Mhz band they where active i belive the also use the 146.7300 too.

 

[CDX197]

Was listning to the scanner when the storm went through lincoln. Had a spotter say they had rotation on the ground about 12 north of sterling. And a little rotation but nothing coming down after that. Thought it was pretty cool to listen to them.

 

[wechri01]

Which frequency did you hear the Lincoln spotters on? I've been looking up info on Skywarn and it seems that Heartland REACT plays a big role in stom spotting here in Nebraska.

www.heartlandreact.com

 

[NeFire242]

The Lincoln Amateur Radio Club does Lancaster County, http://www.146760.net/index.html
They use the 146.7600MHz KØKKV repeater.