DAREN of WV News June 9, 2013(.A92)
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.
It's bad when I don't have anything to write about. I did get an E-Mail about the SV2AGW callsign that checked into the State Wide DAREN Net last week. It looks like it was a default callsign for the SV2AGW software Packet Radio program. Those things happen from time-to-time. All we can do is grin a bare it. The MFJ Terminal Node Controllers do the same thing, except their default callsign is "NOCALL". Anytime that it happens, and you catch it, let me know so that I can change the callsign and give you the credit you deserve. I've had Navy MARS and Army MARS operators forget to change the callsign in their TNC, and check into the net with their MARS callsigns. Most of the time I knew who they were and just changed it on the list.
Our Wood County Emergency Communications group set up a couple of our 24 foot by 40 foot canopies on Friday for use yesterday. After the event was over Saturday, we went back and took them down. Two years ago when we set the canopies up, a hard wind storm came along and damaged both of them. We were able to repair them good enough to use and replace the canopy tops later in the year for use at our BINGO games.
That's pretty much all I have for this week. I'm sure that someone has activities they are involved in they would like to talk about. Field Day will be coming up on the 22nd and 23rd, maybe I will get reports on that event.
There were 45 check-ins again to the State Wide DAREN Net this week. Robert Sellars, KB2FEL, needs only one more check-in to make 300. And, Melvin Shiflett, KD8OWG, needs only one check-in to make 100.