DAREN of WV News September 8 2031(.B05)
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.
Last week after I had written the DAREN News I received messages from Tom White, W3JTW, and Gene Roy, N8ER that the Pendleton County NODE/PBBS of PENDWV/FKLNWV was off the air. Gene said that he made a half a day trip over to Franklin and back, and picked up the station. He said the power supply and TNC were okay, but he had to repair the transceiver since it had no RF Output. Gene thinks the station antenna may be having a problem. Gene was going to contact Bob Tuckerman, W3RUA, who is the SYSOP for the station about getting it back up to the tower site. Tom said that he has a Yeasu 2600 transceiver they could use, if the other one still has a problem. Today I got a couple of E-Mails, one from Bob Sellars, KB2FEL, and one from Doug Haines, W8DEH, about the Mineral County NODE/PBBS of MINEWV/KEYSWV. They said the station is back on the air as of today. I don't know what the problem was, but I'm glad it's back. With the Mineral County NODE/PBBS back on the air, those who usually use the Pendleton County station may be able to get back into the DAREN system, or at least into the State Wide DAREN Net.
Eleven Amateurs from the Wood County area were busy yesterday providing the communications for High School and Middle School Cross County foot races. Over 1600 students from over 95 schools were registered. With the weather hot there were several students that had problems. That kept the medical people hopping, and the communications people busy dispatching them. There were no severe problems but it made for an eventful day.
I'm making plans to go to the Roane County site of ROANWV/SPNCWV and the Jackson County site of JACKWV/RPLYWV on September 18th. I have a meeting in Ripley at 11:00am, and a Skywarn class in Elizabeth in the evening, so I thought I would make a day of it. Maybe I can get both stations back on the air. We think the Roane County problem is the power supply since it powers both the DAREN station and the Joint Emergency Management Network (JEMNet) station since they went off the air about the same time.
Even with the Pendleton County NODE of PENDWV down, there were 46 check-ins to the State Wide DAREN Net this week. MY wife Dot, KC8HAI, who has been checking into the net since May 3, 1997, has completed 850 check-in. Also my son Kevin, KC8OXY, who's been participating in the net since July 1, 2000, has completed 650 check-ins. Both of these operators will be receiving their certificates as soon as I start getting them printed. I just don't seem to have the time to work on the certificates, but I need to get them done.
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