Want to get involved with SKYWARN? Join Rob Macedo, KD1CY, as he leads a SKYWARN class in the Marlborough Room / W9 on Friday, August 14, 2026 at 3 p.m.
This is the traditional SKYWARN training class offered by the WX1BOX Amateur Radio team on behalf of NWS Boston/Norton. There is new content for the 2026 SKYWARN class on NWS product and services but it also incorporates prior content from previous years. This SKYWARN training will go through the traditional SKYWARN reporting criteria for all weather hazards meaning winter storms, hurricanes and all weather hazards with the usual enhanced focus on severe thunderstorm and tornadic development.
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.