DAREN of WV News July 22, 2012(.A46)
WA8LLM (304) 679-3470 wa8llm@yahoo.com
WOOD COUNTY EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS
P.O. BOX 3328, PARKERSBURG, WV 26103
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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.
Not much news this week. Everything seems to be quiet. I have plans on going to the Ritchie County tower site where the RITCWV/HRVLWV NODE/PBBS is located, but I need to squeeze it in between the meetings that I will be attending. I have two meetings in Pleasants County, one in Ritchie County, and one in Roane County. I am also supposed to help my daughter Jennifer Greene, KC8UYB, and her family move this coming Thursday and Friday, so that takes up a couple of days. If I don't get to the site during the week, I will try to get there early Saturday morning so that I can get the station back on the air before the State Wide DAREN Net this week.
That's all I have for now, if there are any experiences that you had during the June 29th storm that you would like to pass on to others, send me the information and I'll put it in the News. I did get a telephone call from Ken Butler, WA8TOX, telling me about a problem he had with a generator that he had purchased from Harbor Fright. It was one of the little 800 Watt ones that you can purchase when they are on sale for about $90. I have six of them and had three of them loaned out during the storm. Ken said that his generator would run for about half an hour, and then shut down. He would take the plug out, clean it up, put it back in, and it would run for another half hour. To make a long story short, he found that the plug had a loose electrode, and it was slipping up and down causing the plug to lose it's spark. He put a new plug in, and solved the problem. It's just a thought to check the plug on any gasoline engine when you are having problems.
There were only 41 check-ins to the State Wide DAREN Net this week. Jim Woodford, KC8MLK, who has been participating in the net since February 7, 2004, has completed 400 check-ins and will be receiving his certificate. Frank Hughes, WD8DEP, needs only one more check-in to make 350.