March 5th 2026 KYW ***Severe Weather Preparedness Exercise, see special note***

[Kentucky Winlink Net]

***Special Note:  This week in Kentucky, most of us will be participating in the statewide Tornado Drill on Wednesday, March 4th at 10:04 EST.  I want to ask those who are willing to use the Severe WX Report form built into Winlink this week.  You will find the template by starting a new message, then selecting the template button at the top of your message window.  Then navigate to Standard Forms and expand it.  Towards the bottom, you will see Weather Forms; expand it.  Then you will double-click the Severe WX Report.txt form.   For this exercise, let's all pretend like there is a tornado at our location and power lines are down.  This form does not auto-populate the TO: field, so remember to add AF4Y to that line and mark your message as Peer-to-Peer if sending as VARA HF P2P.   If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.  Please note the P2P schedule changes below.  If you do not want to participate, send in a regular check-in like a normal week. ***

***NOTE 1:  Use JS8CALL to check if your signal is being received by AF4Y.  I suggest adding @KYWN to your call groups and then sending a "SNR?" to the group. 

All check-ins should be addressed to AF4Y

***RMS Gateway or Telnet Schedule***

Please feel free to check in anytime during the week, after the notice is published.  You may use a standard Winlink check-in form or the Kentucky Winlink custom form found by clicking here. 

***VARA P2P Frequency Schedule***: 

03/04 10:00 EST to 03/04 21:00 EST Center Frequency **7093** KHz USB, Dial Frequency **7091.5** KHz USB

03/04 21:00 EST to 03/05 09:00 EDT Center Frequency **3586.5** KHz USB, Dial Frequency **3585** KHz USB

03/05 09:00 EDT to 03/05 19:00 EDT Center Frequency **7093** KHz USB, Dial Frequency **7091.5** KHz USB

03/05 19::00 EDT to 03/05 23:59:00 EDT Center Frequency **3586.5** KHz USB, Dial Frequency **3585** KHz USB

Last Week's Trivia Answer: Warren G. Harding 
Check-in Map For Last Week:  Map

Trivia:  What is the highest recorded wind speed in an actual tornado?  

[Kentucky Winlink Net]

If you tried to check in today via VARA HF P2P before now, I had an antenna issue.  Luckily and easily fixable one.  My flag had blown onto ty antenna line and was causing it not to be efficient or radiate pretty much at all.  The issue is fixed and working as it should now.

73 de AF4Y