Amateur Radio Preparations Ramp Up as Irma Strengthens to Category 5

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Hurricane Irma, making its way through the Caribbean with the possibility of affecting South Florida by week’s end, has, in the words of the National Hurricane Center (NHC), become “an extremely dangerous category 5 hurricane.” The NHC urged that hurricane preparations be rushed to completion in areas now under hurricane warnings.

As of 1800 UTC, Hurricane Irma was some 180 miles east of Antigua...

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