DAREN of WV News August 7, 2016 (.C57)
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.
I got an E-Mail from Bob Sellars, KB2FEL, about the Hampshire County NODE/PBBS. Bob has been communicating with Hank, K1DOS, about putting a DAREN NODE/PBBS at a tower site that he has in Hampshire County. His tower site location is about 1800 feet. If Hank puts a station on the air, then Bob won't have to work with the Red Cross about getting rack and tower space at their tower site. Bob says Hank is very active in many forms of digital radio, and also produces some great YouTube videos, under the name of "commsprepper". I hope Hank takes Bob's suggestion about installing a station in Hampshire County.
There were 35 check-ins to the net this week. My daughter Cathy Wotring, KC8DJJ, who has been participating in the net since March 15, 1997, has completed 1050 check-ins, and will be receiving her certificate. Brad Carabine, KC8TYU, needs only one more check-in to make 650. There was one new check-in to the net this week and that was Billie Hammonds III, KA8YES, from Colliers, WV. I want to welcome Billie to the DAREN system, and hope he can check into the net as often as possible. There was one station that checked into the net with the callsign of "NOCALL". The station checked into the net on Saturday evening at around 8:52 pm. If you don't see your callsign on this week’s Net Announcement, and think it may have been you, let me know so I can update your net participation records.
That's all I have this week. Hope to have more next week.