[ - WC4AR - ] 2006 April archive

Wed Jan 23 14:25:49 CST 2008

 From K4IDC at comcast.net  Sat Apr 15 21:02:23 2006
From: K4IDC at comcast.net (Robin Midgett)
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 21:02:23 -0500
Subject: [-WC4AR-] K4IDC/b On The Air...finally
Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.2.20060415210140.07dadb30 at mail.comcast.net>

Hello everyone,
I'm pleased to be able to say the K4IDC beacons are on the air..hopefully
for a long time.
Grid: EM76ma (Crossville, TN), at ~2100 feet above sea level

Freqs: (+/-)
50.068 MHz.
144.300 MHz.
222.068 MHz.
432.298 MHz.

I extend my gratitude to KQ4TV, N5KI, N4GER, KE4PJW, K4AL, K4AR, WA4ADG &
KB4LHU for their kind assistance in this project over the last two years.
Please send signal reports (or loss of signal reports) to me via email.

Thanks,
Robin Midgett K4IDC
VHF+ Glutton EM66se

 From k4ko at charter.net  Mon Apr 17 06:27:08 2006
From: k4ko at charter.net (Greg Tomerlin - K4KO)
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 06:27:08 -0500
Subject: [-WC4AR-] more ink for amateur radio
Message-ID: <44437B8C.10503 at charter.net>

Front page of the Monday, 17 April 2006 edition of the Tennessean shows our
beloved Emergency Coordinator, Pete "the ink bandit" Navarra -K4IWX, in action
during the storms ten days ago.  It's a good article, with several references to
amateur radio.  Nice job Pete.  Keep up the great work.

73  Greg  K4KO

 From sillgen at comcast.net  Mon Apr 17 06:43:39 2006
From: sillgen at comcast.net (Steve Illgen)
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 06:43:39 -0500
Subject: [-WC4AR-] more ink for amateur radio
In-Reply-To: <44437B8C.10503 at charter.net>
References: <44437B8C.10503 at charter.net>
Message-ID: <44437F6B.20807 at comcast.net>

I think Pete has a future in Hollywood lined up! :-)

Nice work, Pete!

73,

Steve Illgen - K4GF

Greg Tomerlin - K4KO wrote:
 > Front page of the Monday, 17 April 2006 edition of the Tennessean shows our
 > beloved Emergency Coordinator, Pete "the ink bandit" Navarra -K4IWX, in action
 > during the storms ten days ago.  It's a good article, with several references to
 > amateur radio.  Nice job Pete.  Keep up the great work.
 >
 >
 > 73  Greg  K4KO
 >
 > _______________________________________________
 > WC4AR mailing list
 > WC4AR at wilsonarc.org
 > http://wilsonarc.org/mailman/listinfo/wc4ar_wilsonarc.org
 >
 >
 >

 From k4ko at charter.net  Mon Apr 17 08:31:09 2006
From: k4ko at charter.net (Greg Tomerlin - K4KO)
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:31:09 -0500
Subject: [-WC4AR-] email list archive failure
Message-ID: <4443989D.1010302 at charter.net>

Here's the deal... the archive of email messages for this email reflector was
lost at some point in the last few months.  Those archived messages are gone and
will not return.  In addition, the archiving feature of this reflector no longer
works.  Tech support from our web hosting company informs me that in order for
the email reflector to begin archiving its messages again, this reflector will
have to be completely deleted, then recreated.  I can do it all from this end,
but it will take me an hour or so to accomplish.  However, deleting and
recreating WC4AR at wilsonarc.org might generate email messages to each of you
stating that: 1) you have been unsubscribed, and then 2) you have subscribed to
the WC4AR at wilsonarc.org reflector.  Also, your password will change, but of
course, you can change it back if you like.

Please forgive me for this inconvenience.  I'm sure some of you are growing
tired of the problems encountered here and the changes to our two main email
lists, but hopefully this will get us back to where we belong.

If you send email to this list today, and it does not appear in your own inbox
within an hour or so, you'll probably need to resend it.

Thanks for your patience.

73  Greg Tomerlin, K4KO
.

 From pete at weruniq.com  Mon Apr 17 09:32:38 2006
From: pete at weruniq.com (Pete Navarra)
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:32:38 -0500
Subject: [-WC4AR-] more ink for amateur radio
In-Reply-To: <44437F6B.20807 at comcast.net>
Message-ID:

Ha!  Hollywood...  Hmm...  =)

It is a good article.  Touches on a lot of different stuff.  Though, for
some reason, the article has a different tone then the title of the article.
Maybe it's just me.

Good props for amateur radio though.

-Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Illgen [mailto:sillgen at comcast.net]
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 6:44 AM
To: Wilson Amateur Radio Club email list
Subject: Re: [-WC4AR-] more ink for amateur radio

I think Pete has a future in Hollywood lined up! :-)

Nice work, Pete!

73,

Steve Illgen - K4GF

Greg Tomerlin - K4KO wrote:
 > Front page of the Monday, 17 April 2006 edition of the Tennessean shows our
 > beloved Emergency Coordinator, Pete "the ink bandit" Navarra -K4IWX, in action
 > during the storms ten days ago.  It's a good article, with several references
 > to amateur radio.  Nice job Pete.  Keep up the great work.
 >
 >
 > 73  Greg  K4KO
 >

 From k4ko at charter.net  Tue Apr 18 08:21:22 2006
From: k4ko at charter.net (Greg Tomerlin - K4KO)
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:21:22 -0500
Subject: [-WC4AR-] info regarding FEMA Independent Study for ARES volunteers
Message-ID: <4444E7D2.2090204 at charter.net>

GM all,

At the last Wilson ARC meeting, several of you grabbed
a CD containing study material for the FEMA Independent
Study courses.  Since then, I have discovered that the
best way to study any of those courses is to use the
FREE Interactive Web-based Course provided by FEMA.

  From what I have read, the Dept. of Homeland Security
will soon require (by 2007) all first responders,
including ARES volunteers, to complete training in
the National Incident Management System (NIMS).
Fortunately, FEMA offers a free, self-study course
and online exam for NIMS which, when passed, leads
to certification.  The online course is entitled:
An Introduction to the National Incident Management
System (IS-700).  The IS-700 Web-based course is
divided into seven sections which are said to take
approximately 15 to 30 minutes each.  It took me
a little longer than that, but I completed the
entire course in about five hours total, spread
out over three days.  Once you begin a section,
you must complete it, but you can get through
even the longest section in an hour or less.

It's possible that IS-100 (Introduction to the
Incident Command System) will also be required
of ARES volunteers, but that's not confirmed.
Nevertheless, I took IS-100 first and it made
the first half of IS-700 a breeze... almost a
review, so you might consider doing the same.

For a link to the Interactive Web-based courses,
visit the ARES page at www.wilsonarc.org

73  Greg Tomerlin K4KO
      Wilson County ARES
.

 From k4ko at charter.net  Tue Apr 18 13:29:46 2006
From: k4ko at charter.net (Greg Tomerlin - K4KO)
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:29:46 -0500
Subject: [-WC4AR-] Long-Delayed-QSL
Message-ID: <4445301A.8030506 at charter.net>

  From FOX news "Out There" 4/16/06:

DELAND, Fla. (AP) ? Talk about lost in the mail. A postcard sent from a
Stetson home to a man in Riverside, Calif., was returned this week with
a "return to sender" stamp ? and its 1956 postmark.

Mack McCormick, 59, did not send the postcard, but he lives in the home
where the postcard originated. It was delivered to his mailbox Monday.
"The card apparently has been in the twilight zone for 50 years,"
McCormick said. "It's not wrinkled or anything." He used the Internet to
track down the author of the note, George Hitz, 64, who now lives in
Sudbury, Mass.

"I had to keep asking questions and pull it out of Mack," Hitz said. "It
wasn't obvious to me that he lived in our house."
Hitz, a former *ham radio operator* included his age on the postcard and
information about a radio contact he made in February 1956 with someone
he called "Chief Operator Dave." No street address was included for
Dave, which may explain why the postcard was not delivered, postal
officials said.

It is unlikely the postcard spent the last 50 years in a DeLand post
office, said Joseph Breckenridge, U.S. Postal Service spokesman for
Central and North Florida. The local post office has not been in the
same location that long, and maintenance workers would have found it if
it was trapped in a sorting machine, Breckenridge said.

The card may have been sent to California and was rediscovered recently
by someone who dropped it back in the mail, Breckenridge said.

Hitz said he is not interested in getting his old postcard back.
McCormick plans to frame it.

 From K4IDC at Comcast.net  Tue Apr 18 15:09:26 2006
From: K4IDC at Comcast.net (Robin Midgett)
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:09:26 -0600
Subject: [-WC4AR-] Repeater Off Air Tonight Until..
Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20060418140210.03172b08 at m.mail.vanderbilt.edu>

Hello everyone,
We will be taking the 147.105 repeater off the air tonight at
approximately 6:30 PM in order to repair the distorted audio problem.
I can not say at this time when it will be back on the air, but I
will have a better idea in a day or two, maybe less. It is my hope
that it will be back in proper condition before Monday...but that is
my hope, not a promise.
In the interim, we have been welcomed to use either or both the
146.64 or 146.73 machines in Wilson County for our needs. The weekly
Information/ARES net will be held on 146.64/r Thursday night at 7:00 PM.
I'll keep you posted on the progress of the repeater repair.

Thanks,
Robin Midgett K4IDC
615-322-5836 office - rolls to pager
615-835-7699 pager
615-301-1642 home
K4IDC at comcast.net
http://www.people.vanderbilt.edu/~robin.midgett/index.htm

 From N1IJinTN at aol.com  Thu Apr 20 19:06:54 2006
From: N1IJinTN at aol.com (N1IJinTN at aol.com)
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:06:54 EDT
Subject: [-WC4AR-] Spotter Training Class in White House
Message-ID: <1ba.311f799.31797c1e at aol.com>

Hello everyone,

I have arranged with Jerry Orchanian with the National Weather Service to
hold a beginner and advanced spotter class in White House at the White House
police station conference/training room.

The class is scheduled for May 18th and will start at 6:00pm and will last
around 2.5 hours.

White House Police Department is located on the corner of hwy 258 (tyree
springs) and North Palmers Chapel Rd. (303 North Palmers Chapel Road)

If anyone needs specific directions I can be reached at 615-310-7382

This will be a refresher for some while at the same time will be  presented
at the beginner level as well so everyone can benefit from the  training.

I look forward to seeing everyone there.......

Thanks

Paul  Suggs
N1IJ
615-310-7382
147.300/147.345  repeaters
http://members.aol.com/RSCSWP/PageA.htm
Robertson -  Sumner SKYWARN

 From pete at weruniq.com  Sun Apr 23 15:40:37 2006
From: pete at weruniq.com (Pete Navarra)
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:40:37 -0500
Subject: [-WC4AR-] Your EC will be out of Pocket
Message-ID: <000801c66716$30b3d0b0$27f0fea9 at PETE2>

Good Afternoon All,

Just a quick note to everyone on the Wilson ARES mailing list regarding the
next few weeks.  I will be out of pocket the next two weeks as I will be in
Dallas, Texas on personal business.  I have left Greg K4KO, Robin K4IDC, and
Steve K4GF in charge of the group in the event that severe weather or other
ARES activations should need to be initiated.

I have given them both a copy of the NEW ARES roster.  There are only 11
names on it.   If you have not filled out a NEW Wilson County ARES
application, see the attached file and send it to Greg K4KO, our Member
Coordinator, if you are interested in being apart of the newly reorganized
Wilson County ARES.

Until then, have a great two weeks.

73,

Pete Navarra
Emergency Coordinator
Wilson County ARES