Join Rob Macedo, KD1CY, as he presents “Advanced Topics in SKYWARN – Doppler Radar Fundamentals & How You Can Help with Severe Weather Reporting Situational Awareness” at the 2026 Northeast HamXposition. (Time, date, room T.B.A.)
Have you wanted to get more involved in supporting SKYWARN but have rarely seen criteria to report on SKYWARN Nets? Have you wanted to learn more about Doppler Radar analysis during the summer severe weather season? This class will cover both these topics with new content from events since the last HamXpo! Very often, particularly for severe thunderstorms and localized flood events along with other weather scenarios, damage can be very localized but significant where the damage or flooding occurs. This seminar is intended to give Amateur Radio operators a way to contribute further by supporting proper public safety radio monitoring via personal scanners and online public safety feeds, proper social media monitoring techniques and monitoring local weather stations in your city or town or a local range of cities and towns to help support reporting into the National Weather Service to protect life and property. We will cover the need for net controls and monitoring of local area repeaters during severe weather situations. We will also cover Doppler Radar fundamentals and go through a few radar scenarios from past severe weather events.
Rob Macedo, KD1CY, was born and raised in Saratoga Springs, NY, and moved to New Bedford, MA, for college in 1991, where he attended UMass-Dartmouth and graduated with an Electrical Engineering degree. He works at Dell Technologies where he has been for over 30 years. Rob is a senior principal hardware engineer on Technical Staff and former Director of System Integration in the Device Engineering (DE) department where he previously managed a global team of engineers working on disk drive and Solid State Drive evaluation in Dell-EMC products and now is a technical lead in this area working with the same global team of system integration engineers. Rob has always had a very strong interest in technology, meteorology, emergency management, emergency and public service event communications. Rob has been the Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ARES) SKYWARN Coordinator for NWS Boston/Norton (previously Taunton) for 30 years and is the Eastern Massachusetts ARES Section Emergency Coordinator. When he is not at work or doing Amateur Radio public service, emergency communications and weather spotting volunteer work, Rob enjoys movies, shows, time with family and friends, as well as sporting events.