DAREN of WV News May 1, 2016 (.C43)
WA8LLM (304) 679-3470 wa8llm@yahoo.com
WOOD COUNTY EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS, 319 COMMUNICATIONS DR, WAVERLY, WV 26184
www.wc8ec.com or 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 www.wc8ec.com and www.wc8ec.org websites.
Things sure have been slow the last few weeks. I've been monitoring the DAREN frequency, and there's been very little activity. I just got back home from the Jackson County Hamfest in Ripley. I picked up a Kantronics KAM Plus TNC from an operator who hasn't been on Packet in over 10 years. I don't know if the unit is any good, but it also came with an old laptop computer. The price was just too good to pass up. On the way back from the Hamfest my wife Dot, KC8HAI, and Sammy, N8SVX, and I stopped by the Wirt County tower site to look at a problem on the Remote Receiver of the 147.255 MHz voice repeater. While we were there, I took some measurements of the tower so that I can make a new antenna outrigger for both the remote receiver, and DAREN Packet station. When the weather gets a little bit better, we'll make another trip to the tower site, and change out the antenna outrigger and the antennas. I still need to make a trip back to the Jackson County tower site and change out the DAREN antenna. Another site that I need to go to is the Wetzel County DAREN station of NMARWV/WETZWV. That station has been off the air for over a year.
That's all I have for now. If you have any activities going on in your area, I'd like to know about them.
There were 38 check-ins to the State Wide DAREN Net this week.