Wood County
Emergency Communications

Serving Wood County West Virginia and surrounding areas

Who is WCEC?

Wood County Emergency Communications Inc. (WCEC) is an all volunteer Non-Profit organization, created to provide back-up and overload communications to all Public Safety agencies in Wood County, West Virginia and the surrounding counties in WV and OH.  Read more in our Mission Statement to see what we do.

The organization's Bylaws are available in Adobe pdf format by downloading them here. You can also read the WCEC Operation plan.

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Kerosene Recall

Recall Notice

Pittsburgh Terminals Corp, a gas storage company that distributes Kerosene to convenience stores for use in home heaters has issued a RECALL on Kerosene kerosene heaterdistributed between May 1, 2008 and August 19, 2008 to facilities in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, northern West Virginia and southwestern New York.

If you purchased Kerosene in any of these localities between these dates DON’T USE IT!  Got to Pittsburgh Terminals Corp.’s website and see about returning it for a full refund.

Posted 09/18/2008

Field Day 2008 was a Stormy Affair

Wood County Emergency Communications again participated in the annual ARRL Field Day held every year on the fourth full weekend of June. There were approximately thirty members who shuffled in and out of the Hendershot farm on Dallison Laurel Creek Road Saturday and Sunday to get their hands in on the quest to contact as many other Amateur Radio Operators as possible in the 24 hour event.

Used mainly as a practice exercise for disaster communications by WCEC, members spent much of their time building antennas, hooking up batteries and learning how to effectively communicate when there is no commercial power and under the most primitive of conditions. Referring to this scenario Ken Harris, director WCEC, said “If you’re going to make a mistake, now’s the time to fix it.” And fix it they did as strong storms lashed the area Saturday afternoon. Despite the interruptions contacts were made by many of the operators on hand.

Read an article by Rachel Lane of the Parkersburg News and Sentinel. Then check out the pictures on News and Sentinel's CU Galleries.

I.R. Call Home Exercise

I.R. Phone Home CritiqueI.R. Phone Home exercise

Now available is the critique on the December 08, 2007 multi-state exercise held at West Virginia University, Parkersburg.  Titled “I.R. Phone Home” this was a multi-state exercise to test the communication capabilities of various organizations in the WCEC operating area.

You can down load the “After Action Report” in pdf format and read the conclusions arrived at and the questions developed by the observers.

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Notice to WC8EC Members

Finish computing your 'Hours' and 'Miles' calucations and bring them to the next meeting on Nov. 4th.

The ARRL Repeater Directory 2008 - 2009 now available

The ARRL Repeater Directory

When traveling your vehicle should have one. They are extremely handy in an emergency. ARRL Product Catalog

US Amateur Radio Bands

The ARRL has published new Frequency Allocation charts for the Amateur bands.  Available in Color and Black an White, they may be downloaded and printed from their website.  These print nicely on regular 8½ X 11 Paper.
US Amateur Frequency Chart

ARRL Amateru Radio Bands chart