DAREN of WV News August 16, 2009 (.892)
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 West Virginia ARRL State Convention will be this coming Saturday, August 22nd at Jackson's Mill. Be sure to show your support and find out what is happening in the state. I would love to be there, but I'm going to be tied up this whole weekend. If you go to the convention let me know what is happening around the state so that we can pass it on to others. I'm supposed to be presenting a forum about the ARES program in West Virginia, but I won't be able to do it this year. With any luck the state convention and the Parkersburg Homecoming won't fall on the same weekend next year.
I got an E-Mail from Lee Myers, KM4YY, who's been on vacation in New York for about 2 months. A little after Lee left on vacation, the Hampshire County NODE/PBBS of HAMPWV/RMNYWV went off the air. I thought that while Lee was on vacation, he had turned the station off. He said the station is back on the air now. After he had left, there had been a nearby lightening strike, and that it had reset the radio and TNC. He said that i should be okay now. I'll try it after I finish the News by trying to post it there.
That's all I have for this week. I'll be busy all this week getting ready for the Parkersburg Homecoming BINGO, and the Parkersburg Homecoming Parade, and the Parkersburg Half Marathon. After this week things should start slowing down, then I'll start working on something for a State Wide Simulated Emergency Test (SET).
There were 60 check-ins to this week's State Wide DAREN Net. Ray Bodie, N8TWV, needs only one more check-in to make 450. I'm glad that I got the last certificates printed up a couple of weeks ago. My printer went bad a few days ago. I have a new printer back in operation, and I'll try to get the latest certificates printed up and sent out. I had to re-send a couple certificates because the addresses were wrong. If you haven't received any certificates that you've been waiting for, let me know so that I can get them to you.