Volume 3 Number 6
June
5, 2006
Editor, Jim Rogers, N4EUX
Published Monthly
Lenoir, North Carolina
"Dedicated to Public Service"
Training!
The next scheduled meeting of the Lenoir ARC is set for
June 8th (Thursday), 7:00 PM
at the EOC (upstairs, Department of Emergency Management) located "catty-corner" from the downtown Lenoir Post Office on Harper Avenue. Visitors welcome!
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BRING A FRIEND TO THE NEXT MEETING!
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Go to home page of our website and click on "Calendar of Events" at top of screen for a grid-type calendar for a more comprehensive listing of upcoming events...or
click here
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The Caldwell Amateur Radio Emergency Services (CARES) Net is called every Sunday night at 8:30 PM on the 147.33 (Hibriten) repeater. This is a formal directed net and is sponsored by the ARES. Its purpose is to train, and keep in readiness, a pool of qualified emergency radio operators in the event of a local and/or regional emergency. Net checkins will be called by alpha groups and, unless you check in & out, you will be called again during the informal portion to offer any comments, etc. The 147.33 repeater has a CTCSS tone of 141.3 mhz.
?? Did you know... ??
Nearly 94% of the volume of the Earth's crust is taken up by oxygen. The "solid" earth is a well-packed set of oxygen anions (negatively charged ions) crowded closely together, with the small cations ( positively charge ions) of the other 7 elements tucked here & there in the interstices. Even the Rock of Gibraltar is a heap of oxygen and little more.
(Reprinted from Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts, 1981 Ed., Pg. 326).
KF4WOD
http://www.lenoir-arc.org
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One of the best ways to sharpen your emergency communications skills is to check into the weekly CARES Net (see column at right).
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EmergencyFest 2006
The 2006 event of Blowing Rock's "EmergencyFest" will be held on June 17th at the park grounds situated on Hwy 321 North (Business), downtown Blowing Rock. The
event will highlight many public-service oriented entities (e.g., Rescue Squads, Fire Departments, Police & Sheriff Departments) and, for the first time, our very own LARC & CERT exhibits. A live Ham Radio station will be in operation from 10AM 'til 5 PM. Last year, over 80 entities were represented. JOIN US!!
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New ARES Website!
We have toyed with the idea of an ARES/RACES website for Caldwell County for quite some time. Now...it is a reality! The new website, dubbed caldwell-ncares.org, was kicked off on May 17th in an "Under Construction" mode. But today, May 26th, it was finalized and given
most
of its functionality. The website is being hosted by Michelle Suddreth, KD4YTU, as is the Lenoir ARC website. A new Calendar Grid (for ARES/RACES events) will be provided by Greg Branch, KI4GZD, and will be independent of the Lenoir ARC Calendar Grid...so you will need to check both grids for upcoming events!
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