January 27, 2008 (.811)
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, or to my E-Mail: wa8llm@yahoo.com. A State Wide DAREN NET is operated every Saturday from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, and lately, before and after those hours. The DAREN Net Announcement, 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'. The DAREN News can also be found on the wc8ec.com website.
The DAREN News is a little late getting out this week. I just finished a two days FEMA NIMS (National Incident Management System) class.
I have noticed the last couple of weeks that my main logging computer for the weekly State Wide DAREN Net has been acting funny. I noticed that it would quit storing the callsigns of the net participants after a few check-ins. I got a message from John Johnston, KF8OM, stating that his call wasn’t on last week's check-in list. What I found was the logging computer was running out of memory space. Somehow I had down loaded a fairly large message, and it had taken up a lot of the space. I went over the back-up logs to make sure that I didn't miss anyone else. But, if anyone else thinks they may not have been logged in let me know.
Roy Humes, N8RH, sent me an E-Mail stating that he had to "force" a disconnect on this week's State Wide DAREN Net. When I checked into it, I noticed that I forgot to set one of the Net Control Station command parameters. The "CMSG" command parameter was set to "ON", when it should have been set to "DISC", so the Terminal NODE Controller wasn't disconnecting the check-in stations after they connected and were given the check-in message. Since I got the message from Roy early enough, I got the problem corrected before most of the net participants noticed the mistake.
That's about all I have for this week, so if anyone has something they wish to pass on to others, let me know so the NEWS won't be this short in the future.
There were 60 check-ins to this week's State Wide DAREN Net. Gladys Gorrell, KC8GIZ, needs only one more check-in to make 550. Francis Fox, K8ATB, needs only one more check-in to make 50. There was one new check-in to the net this week, and that was Jonna Wigal, KD8DLY, from Marietta, Ohio. Jonna checks into the Local ARES District 3 DAREN Packet Net on Sunday evenings which is operated during the Wood County Emergency Communications/ARES Voice Net on the Wood County 147.255 MHz repeater.