Volume 2 Number 10
October 5, 2005
Editor, Jim Rogers, N4EUX
Published Monthly
Lenoir, North Carolina
"Dedicated to Public Service"
Training!
The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Lenoir ARC is set fo
r
October
13
th (Thursday), 7PM
, at our regular meeting place, the EOC building.
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The club cookout is scheduled for October 15th at the QTH of Floyd, KF4PJJ
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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... ??
In order to populate the frontier, the U.S. Congress passed the Homestead Act (1862). It offered 160-acre farms to all who would live on them & farm the wilderness. What is little known is that only the poorest-quality land was given away free. Good farms that size cost about $1,000.
(Reprinted from Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts, 1981 Ed., Pg. 174).
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).
Bridge-to-Bridge Bike Ride
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It's over! With over 800 entrants, the Seventeenth Riding of the Bridge-to-Bridge Bike Ride completed without a major hitch! The LARC thanks all who participated!!
For photos - click on bike...
Local ham wins 1st Prize at Shelby Hamfest!
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One of Lenoir's own won the first prize at Shelby. Tom Land, KA4HKK, came away with a brand new Kenwood TS-570S - an HF/6M combo base station with a filter controller. Tom states he could hardly believe his eyes when he came home from work 4-5 days after the hamfest and found the UPS-delivered package waiting on his doorstep! Whoopee!! says he.
CERT Graduates! - On September 8, 2005, the first graduating class of the Community Emergency Response Team received their course certificates. The course spanned 5 weeks with 25 hours of textbook & on-hand (literally) instruction by Kenneth Teague, EMT-P. Shown receiving their certificates:
Elaine Bruner & Scott Livingston, KC4SWL.
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