Santa Net 2025

 

Share the magic of Ham Radio and Santa Claus with your children, grandchildren, and neighborhood kids.Youngsters can talk to "Santa at The North Pole" via strategically placed operators who relay the voice of Santa. 

The Santa Net is held every evening between Thanksgiving and Christmas on 3.916 MHz at 7:00PM Central Time (check-ins open 1/2 hour before).

more info at: https://www.cqsanta.com/

Need help identifying a connector?

We recently stumbled across this very interesting Connector reference guide web site and book. Do you need help identifying a connector? If so, then you really should check out this resource. 

link to on-line utility: https://connectorbook.com/identification.html?Q=

If you like a hard copy reference, you can also buy their over 600 page exhasutive book. 

link to the book: https://connectorbook.com/

Skywarn Training - Fall 2025

 Scheduling of NWS Binghamton Fall-Winter Skywarn Trainings are currently on hold due to a lapse in appropriations.  Sessions (virtual and/or in person) will get scheduled when and if possible. (11/2/25)

All-Season Skywarn Training - Cayuga County 

NWS Binghamton office is conducting an All-Season Skywarn training hosted by the Owasco Fire Dept., 7174 Owasco Rd, Auburn, NY, from 6-8 PM on Wednesday November 19th, 6-8 PM.

UPDATE: 11/20/25: With the ending of the Lapse of Appropriations, we will still be able to offer a few NWS Binghamton Winter Skywarn Trainings - virtual and/or in-person - though less than prior seasons. As they are scheduled, they will be placed here - check back for additional registrations.

Tuesday 12/9/25  6:30-8:00 PM:  Virtual Winter Skywarn - online

Thursday 12/11/25  6:30-8:00 PM: Tompkins Co Winter Skywarn, Airport Administration/CFR Building, 72 Brown Road, Ithaca NY   **registration limited to the first 30 due to space constraints**

Tue 12/16 630-800 PM: Virtual Winter Skywarn - online

Mon 12/22 630-800 PM: Bradford Co Winter Skywarn, 29 VanKuren Drive, Towanda PA

Sat 1/3 10-11:30AM: Virtual Winter Skywarn - online

Sign-up for the classes here: https://www.weather.gov/bgm/outreachSKYWARNtraining

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Fall training Buffalo:

https://www.weather.gov/buf/Skywarn

What is SKYWARN?

The effects of severe weather are felt every year by many Americans. To obtain critical weather information, NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS), part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, established SKYWARN® with partner organizations. SKYWARN® is a volunteer program with nearly 290,000 trained severe weather spotters. These volunteers help keep their local communities safe by providing timely and accurate reports of severe weather to the National Weather Service.

Although SKYWARN® spotters provide essential information for all types of weather hazards, the main responsibility of a SKYWARN® spotter is to identify and describe severe local storms. In the average year, 10,000 severe thunderstorms, 5,000 floods and more than 1,000 tornadoes occur across the United States. These events threatened lives and property.

Since the program started in the 1970s, the information provided by SKYWARN® spotters, coupled with Doppler radar technology, improved satellite and other data, has enabled NWS to issue more timely and accurate warnings for tornadoes, severe thunderstorms and flash floods.

Learn more at the National SKYWARN web site: https://www.weather.gov/SKYWARN