MADELEINE BRAND, host: Joining me now is my colleague Noah Adams who is not on the show today but is working on something for Friday and Noah what is it?</s>MADELEINE BRAND, host: NOAH ADAMS reporting:</s>MADELEINE BRAND, host: Madeleine this is a story about getting set for the hurricane season.</s>BOB: My name is Bob, I'm located southwest of Austin, Texas, about fourteen miles out of town in the hills and we function as a net control with the National Hurricane Center Cooperation out of Miami we're part of the hurricane watch net that functions on this frequency.</s>ADAMS: Madeleine that is Bob as he said. He's in Texas checking in with the National Hurricane Center in Miami. He's part of a big volunteer Ham Radio network that operates when the hurricanes come close to land. The weather data comes in and the warnings go out.</s>MADELEINE BRAND, host: And Friday, we'll go inside the National Hurricane Center with you, thank you Noah.</s>ADAMS: You're welcome.</s>BOB: (Unintelligible) national hurricane center K5 sugar, (unintelligible), Victor, Bob and Austin always a pleasure Julio. Seventy-three.
Noah Adams recently visited the National Hurricane Center in Florida, where he learned that amateur ham-radio operators play an important part in weather forecasting. Adams talks with Madeleine Brand about his story, set to air on Thursday's program.