DAREN of WV News June 10, 2012(.A40)
WA8LLM (304) 679-3470 wa8llm@yahoo.com
WOOD COUNTY EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS
P.O. BOX 3328, PARKERSBURG, WV 26103
http://www.wc8ec.org
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.org website.
Ron Wilson, K8RWW, sent me a message saying that he is installing another NODE in Barbour County. The equipment is the ones he used on Packet when he was in Army MARS. The NODE/PBBS will be located at his home. The station will be on the air 24/7. The call on the station will be K8RWW, The NODE will be K8RWW-7, and the PBBS will be K8RWW-1.
Nothing much has been happening here on the DAREN system, and I haven't received anything about any activities except the report from Ron Wilson, K8RWW. I've been reading my notes from last years Field Day activities. I've found some things that I should have already been working on, but I let them slip by me. I have a Packet station ready to be operational as soon as we get the main canopy set up at the Field Day site. The State Wide DAREN Net will be operational during the whole Field Day weekend, so you'll have plenty of time to get checked into the net, and go back to your Field Day activities. Field Day is only two weekends away. If you have anything to pass on about your Field Day activity, let me know, and I'll get it in the DAREN News.
There were 55 check-ins to the State Wide DAREN Net again this week. No one needs only one more check-in to make any multiple of 50, or has completed any multiple of 50.