Volume 2   Number 7                                    July 5, 2005                                                        Published Monthly
Lenoir, North Carolina
"Dedicated to Public Service" Training!
The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Lenoir ARC is set for July 14 th (Thursday), 7PM , at our regular meeting place, the EOC building.
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CERT Training begins Friday, July 15th, 6:30 PM, at the EOC!!
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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 simply
click here .
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...  ?? About 25 percent of all male Americans between the ages of ten and fifteen were "gainfully employed" at the turn of the century.  By 1970, so few in that age bracket were employed that the U.S. Census Bureau did not bother to make inquiries about them.
(Reprinted from Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts, 1981 Ed., Pg. 176). KF4WOD - 147.195 (N4NIN) http://www.lenoir-arc.org
One of the best ways to sharpen your emergency communications skills is to check into the weekly CARES Net (see column at right).

"CQ Field Day", "CQ FD" de KF4WOD!
Sound familiar?  It should... after hearing it a few hundred times.   At 2pm Saturday...the race was on!
The LARC was operating 5 stations (most of the time) simultaneously on emergency power,  for the full 24-hour period. Many operators operated one station or the other for the entire contest.  Click on the camera to see photos-->
Pg 1    CODE CLASS UNDERWAY!
The code class, held at the Caldwell County Public Library, was begun on schedule on June 13th.  While more students would have been nice, the six that did sign up for the class are determined to get their 5 wpm certificate to qualify them to either upgrade to General -or- to begin their trek toward a ham ticket!
Through the diligent efforts of a dedicated repeater work detail crew, the new repeater enclosure is coming along quiet nicely. See page 2 for more... Next