Record Number Watch McCain

McCain Attracts Record TV Audience, Tops Obama, Palin
John McCain speech draws record TV ratings

• Nielsen Media Research reported a record 38.9 million U.S. TV viewers -- more than one in 10 people -- watched McCain's acceptance speech

• 38.3 million people watched Obama's acceptance speech the week before

• Palin drew 37.2 million viewers.

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Gustav on ARRL

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The Hurricane Watch Net is using these frequencies during the Hurricane Gustav emergency:

• 20 meters: 14.325 MHz USB
• Main frequency during Hurricanes -- 40 meters: 7.268 MHz LSB
• Water Way Net (secondary frequency) Maritime Mobiles Net -- 80 meters: 3.815 MHz
• Caribbean Net (alternates: 3.950 North Florida / 3.940 South Florida)

Amateur Radio EchoLink/IRLP

• EchoLink Conference "WX-TALK" Node 7203
• IRLP Node 9219
• West Gulf Emergency Health and Welfare Net: 7.290 LSB Day, 3.395 LSB Night

Please respect the Nets and do not transmit if you have nothing truly important to contribute. There is a 72 hour moratorium on inbound Health and Welfare (H&W) traffic.

As of 10:00 AM CDT August 30, the Louisiana, Mississippi, South Texas Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) relating to emergency nets has been evoked. The West Gulf emergency net (WGEN) was activated at 6:00 AM CDT on Sunday, August 31. Operating frequencies are:

• Emergency/tactical:
  daytime 7285 kKz
  nighttime 3873 kHz

• H&W
  daytime 7290 kHz (Net Manager: Jo Anne Keith, KA5AZK)
  nighttime 3935 kHz (Net Manager: John Mussey, K5FJ)

Net Manager for WGEN is Lanny Prichard, K5WLP, of Inverness, Mississippi. For H&W traffic, there will be a 72 hour moratorium on traffic inbound to the affected area. Outbound H&W traffic will be handled routinely. There will be NTS representation on the H&W net.

We ask that those frequencies, and nearby frequencies, be kept clear for emergency traffic.