DAREN of WV News May 31, 2009 (.881)
Kenneth Harris WA8LLM (304) 679-3470 wa8llm@yahoo.com
WOOD COUNTY EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS
P.O. BOX 3328, PARKERSBURG, WV 26103
http://www.wc8ec.com
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.com website.
With a little computer problems, I'm finally getting the News put together. I don't have much to say this week, but I needed to put out something.
We had a good Technician Class Radio Cram Course yesterday. We had about 28 people show up. A couple of the people just came to the class to take an upgrade test to General, but the rest came to take the course to get licensed. After it was all over 25 out of 26 people passed the test. I never thought a cram course would work, but I was wrong. The course was mostly for any Public Safety agency who wanted some of their people to get their Amateur Radio License. We had people from Fire, Ambulance, Health Department, and Red Cross at the class. There were three from our communications group who had been wanting to get a license, but just never had the time to do it. I'm not for sure where the rest of the people came from, but they came and passed the test.
That's all I have for this week. Maybe I'll find some time to get back to work on some of the DAREN stations that are having problems. I know I have several activities coming up, so my time is going to be limited.
There were 61 check-ins to this week's State Wide DAREN Net. Lee Mairs, KM4YY, who's been participating in the net since March 15, 2008, has 50 check-ins, and will be receiving his certificate.