I was wondering...

Have any Auxiliary units been asked to assist with Gustov?

Just curious...

yes,

The auxmon stations are directly supporting HF guard in d8, there is a national hf net currently operational, and we are guarding dsc, 2182, and the air to ground hf flight safety frequencies by direction of CAMSLANT.

We have been up Since 0100z Sep 01 08 and have intersepted at least two distress relaies.

there is a national hf net currently operational

Is the net running on the Aux HF frequencies or some other frequency?

Now all we have to worry about is Hanna, Ike and TD 10Josephine

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Sorry, should have written in the past tence. Yes they are ran on the Auxiliary frequencies, as well as some camslant assigned frequencies. Mostly it is hourly check ins as mostly our tasking was keep guard on dsc, and other mgdss channels and report any traffic to the communications watch officer.

I know, I wonder if we will get to "z" as we still have three more months and then that is if they end on Nov 1st...

I know, I wonder if we will get to "z" as we still have three more months and then that is if they end on Nov 1st...

Now don't quit early. Hurricane season officially ends on 30 Nov.

wow, I always believed it was from Jun 1 to Nov 1... Aprentice, you are a source of wisdem.

Hmmm a storm named KB5UJM... has a nice ring to it don't you think???

Your name sorta made the list. Robert does not appear in the list of hurricane names. However, Bob got retired from the list after the 1991 Hurricane Bob severly damaged New England.

How about Duane? or Harriet the first my middle name, the second, the name of my first seeing eye dog. I don't think "Snickers" who is my current guide is on the list.

Oh well, How is the General testing going? have you passed? maybe we can qso on hf.

No Duane or Harriet.

Here is the official list of Worldwide Tropical Cyclone Names.

Here is the list of Retired Hurricane Names Since 1954.

Tropical cyclones did not have official names prior to 1954. They were often unnamed or named for the month and/or year they occured. Sometimes they were named for the day they made landfall, such as the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 which destroyed Flager's Overseas Railroad . The Cubans, under the Spanish, were among the earliest hurricane forecasters. They named hurricanes after the saint whose feast day the hurricane was first reported on. At times the US would use the same name.

Some historic hurricane names were assigned after the fact - for example:

New England Hurricane of 1938 (or Great New England Hurricane or Long Island Express or simply The Great Hurricane of 1938) was only named after landfall. The name LI Express comes from not only where it made landfall but also for the fact that it had the highest forward speed (70 mph) of any Atlantic hurricane.

Galveston Hurricane of 1900 aka Isaac's Storm. Named for where it made landfall. The latter name is a fairly new name for the hurricane - it comes from a book about the hurricane.

A famous hurricane that shows the old Cuban method of naming hurricanes and the older Amercian method is the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane aka Hurricane San Felipe Segundo. That is the hurricane that destoyed the second Lake Okeechobee Dike and killed several thousand people. The current Herbert Hoover Dike is the third dike on the lake.

The first dike on the lake was destroyed by another hurricane under the old naming convention 1926 Miami Hurricane (or Great Miami Hurricane).

Holy crap, I remember "Hurricane Bob". Lived in Wareham Mass a stones throw from the Cape Cod Canal. Which is right at the top of Buzzards Bay.

Matter of fact, I spent BOB on Buzzards Bay on a 110' "Mega yacht", trying to get to New Bedford before they closed the hurricane barriers, which we didn't. A LOVELY time was had by all aboard.

Course Bob weren't nothing compared to what happened a couple months later. The "No Name" storm of Oct 91 was the darndest storm I ever saw. You folks not from New England know it as "The Perfect Storm".

During that storm I sat on a hill not far from where I live now(Hull Mass.,I didn't live here then)and watched about 300 yards of a concrete rock solid seawall that had been withstanding the North Atlantic for about 50 years disintergrate in about 5 minutes.

After the storm down Mattapoisett Mass(also on Buzzards Bay)one of guys whose boat I took care of called me frantically asking me to come help find his pride and joy, a 32' Chris Craft cruiser I had repowered for him earlier that year. I went and looked with him and we didn't find it. Couple days later local PD called him and told him they had found it- almost a quarter mile from the water about 6 feet off the ground impaled on a couple trees. Guy had owned the thing for 2 years and had been renovating and restoring it the whole time. He was crying on the phone when he called to tell me it had been found-JRC

quote:

"The Perfect Storm".

Two hurricane factoids about that storm. One of the three weather events that fed the Perfect Storm was Hurricane Grace.

After the Perfect Storm, aka Halloween Storm, wrecked New England it wandered out to sea. After crossing the Gulf Stream it gained tropical characteristics and became a tropical storm and then a hurricane. Unofficially the new hurricane was called the Unnamed Hurricane of 1991. Long after the storm it was officially named Hurricane 8 of 1991.

Right, around here I ain't never heard it called anything but the "No Name" storm-JRC