DAREN of WV News June 8, 2014 (.B44)
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.
Not much to report this week. The weather has been great. I did get an E-Mail from Tom White, W3JTW. Tom said that he thinks the Mineral County NODE/PBBS of MINEWV/KEYSWV is out of service. He said there was lightening in that area, and may be the reason it's down. I tried to connect to the station a few hours later myself, and was not able to connect to it either.
I found out last week that a DAREN operator has passed away. I don't know when it happened, but Max (Lee) Kramer, N8TMF, passed away. Lee used to check into the State Wide DAREN Net from March 6, 1993 to February 3, 2007, before he quit checking in. I never heard why he quit checking in. I just found out that he has passed away within the past couple of weeks.
The State DAREN Net was down a lot this week, there were only 42 check-ins. It may have been lower because the Mineral County NODE/PBBS is out of service. Tom White, W3JTW, who has been participating in the net since November 7, 1998, has completed 700 check-ins and will be receiving his certificate.