The 2025 National Hurricane Conference will be held next month, April 14–17, at the Hilton Riverside Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana. The event’s long-running Amateur Radio Workshop will be conducted on Tuesday, April 15, from 1:30 to 5 PM. Watch a video of the amateur radio workshops at the 2024 National Hurricane Conference, courtesy of Jim Palmer, KB1KQW.
Hurricane Watch Net founder Gerald E. “Gerry” Murphy, K8UYW, passed away on February 25, 2025, at age 88. In 1965, Murphy, then 28 years old, was stationed at the U.S. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Center in Davisville, Rhode Island. During his time off, he handled countless phone patches and messages to and from military-deployed personnel as a member of the Intercontinental Amateur Radio Net (IARN) on 14.320 MHz.—Hurricane Watch Net manager Bobby Graves, KB5HAV