Volume 3 Number 7
July
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
July 13th (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... ??
To view the wonders of the undersea world that no other man had probably seen, Admiral R.J. Galanson, chief of the U.S. Naval Materials, peered through the portholes of a U.S. Navy deep-submersible craft nearly half a mile below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. The first thing he saw on the ocean floor was an empty beer can
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(Reprinted from Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts, 1981 Ed., Pg. 332).
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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Skywarn Spotter Class
On June 22nd, a Basic Skywarn Spotter training class was conducted by NOAA at the Caldwell County Public Library. With over 22 present, Lenoir ARC and Caldwell ARES comprised over half of the class.
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Field Day 2006 underway!!
Above, Robert, WR4UNC, operates one of 4 HF rigs as KF4WOD. Below, Tim Slay, N4IB, SM for NC, honored us with a brief visit to our field day site!
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A Uni-Four Emergency Management test/event is scheduled for August 2006, involving four connecting counties (Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, & Catawba). More details later.
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