DAREN of WV News December 29, 2019(E34)
(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 Statewide 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 received a message from Matt Gregg, WV8MAT, from Point Pleasant. Matt said that he has finally got the Winlink RMS Gateway running correctly at the Mason County Emergency Operations Center in Point Pleasant. The station is only running 5 watts at this time but works very well through the Mason County DAREN Node of MASOWV. He says they have tested it with software connecting to the WV8MAT-10 RMS node as they are not sure Winlink allows for a terminal access to the system. He is hopeful that they can maintain the system at the county EOC for a long time. The system should give free E-Mail access to the Amateurs in Mason County, and anyone who can access the DAREN System. Matt says he is going to make a video of the Winlink software and how it all works. He's planning on making the video over this winter and have it ready for spring release.
I want to wish everyone a safe and Happy New Year. It looks like we are not going to have any snow again this week.
There were 33 check-ins to the Statewide DAREN Net week. Conard Richardson, KE8HLU, needs one more check-in to make 50.