November 11, 2007 (.800)
Kenneth Harris WA8LLM (304) 679-3470 wa8llm@yahoo.com
WOOD COUNTY EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS, P.O. BOX 3328, PARKERSBURG, WV 26103 http://www.wc8ec.com
DAREN News, are articles and information about the Digital Amateur Radio "Emergency" Network of WV, which operates on 145.69 Mhz. Anyone having any information about DAREN, or Amateur Radio in general, and would like to share it with others, may send it to WA8LLM @ PKBGWV on 145.69 MHz A State Wide DAREN NET is operated every Saturday from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. DAREN Net Announcements, showing the MAIN NCS, ALTERNATE NCS, NODEs accessible to both, and the previous week's check-ins, are posted by Thursday on most of the Main county DAREN PBBS'.
For the past couple of weeks I've noticed a problem with the Wetzel
County NODE/PBBS of WETZWV/NMARWV. I thought that it may have been
hit by lightening since it seemed to be off the air the day after a
storm came through the area. The station seems to be okay early in the
morning, but during the day, it's not operational. We had a
problem like that awhile back, but it seemed to have cleared itself, but
it looks like it's back.
The Pendleton County NODE/PBBS of PENDWV/FKLNWV had a problem last week.
I tried to connect to it, but it didn't answer. Gene Roy, N8ER,
sent me a message about the station. He didn't know what the
problem was, but at the same time, the Two Meter Voice repeater, at the
same site was off the air. I got another message from Gene
yesterday that said both the voice repeater and the DAREN NODE/PBBS was
back in operation. Gene thinks it may have been the power line up
the mountain that may have tripped a breaker. He says there needs
to be some sort of warning device when the power fails so we can get
them up there quicker. He says the government radios, at that
site, will run off of a generator until someone reports the power
outage. The only ones that usually report a power outage are Rick
Gilsipy, N8HON, or himself.
Last week I talked about a communications exercise that will be held
here in Wood County on Saturday, December 8th. I'm getting a
little more information about the exercise. The exercise will be
operated from 8 am to 4 pm. Here is a list, so far, of groups
and/or organizations that said they were going to participate by
bringing their communications vehicle: The WV and OH Offices of
Emergency Services, the Kanawha County Emergency Services, the
Washington County, OH, Emergency Management Agency, the National Guard
35th Civil Support Team, out of Charleston, the 52nd Civil Support Team
out of Columbus, OH, and one another Military Team that I'm not for sure
of. I was told the National Weather Service is also going to
participate. I've forwarded E-Mails from Jim Rose, the organizer
of the event, to as many E-Mail addresses that I could come up with.
We need to get as much Amateur Radio participation as possible.
(The rest of this information will be continued next week)
There were 53 check-ins to this week's State Wide DAREN Net. Joe
Peterson, N8DSN, who's been participating in the net since March 26,
1994, has completed 650 check-ins and will be receiving his certificate.
There was one station that checked into the net with the Callsign of
(CALL-15). On my back-up log that station also tried to connect to
"OHIOWV" while already connect to the NCS. If you don't see your
Callsign on this coming week's Net Announcement, and think it may have
been you, let me know so that I can correct your check-in records.
I won't tell anyone who it was, we all make mistakes. I finally
got the certificates printed up for those have been waiting for them.
I plan on putting them in the mail on Tuesday, since tomorrow is
Veterans Day Holiday, and the mail won't be going out. I also want
to thank all of the Veterans who have served our country.