• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

ZELLO APP FOR STORM CHASING

I Love Zello. It's made quite a bit of upgrades over the last year and now with the Network Radios gaining popularity especially. My Zello app always stays connected without any issues, the last update fixed any of those. I use the Zello app for communications with my Spotters/Skywarn group to communicate with the public to get info out and take storm damage reports. If you are a devoted Zello user i suggest the Inrico T320 network radio. Looks and feels like a walkie talkie with the added bonus of supporting any networks like EchoLink, Internet Radio Network, etc. Ham radio works great but not everyone is a ham operator but anyone can use Zello... It's greatly improved over the past year and recommend it for the people that may have had bad experience with it before to try it again. In the settings you can also set it to periodically wake up every so often to keep it alive and not sign out or lose connection. The ONLY gripe I have with Zello is after the January 6 incident at the Capitol they removed the search function so you have to know the exact channel name/link to find it. However channels also have their own QR code by default so you can also post those for others to quickly find the channel...
 
Was just wondering if anyone uses the ZELLO app to communicate during storm chases. When I had watched Barry Gray in some of his videos, I noticed that he was communicating to other chasers with his phone, but I didn't know what app he was using. I found out it is ZELLO. Does anyone have any positives/negatives about this program. @Warren Faidley we might want to download this app if it's pretty decent to use.
It's all I have used for about 7 years....works like a charm (data-dependent, of course).
 
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