Volume 3 Number 11 November 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
November 9th (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... ??
Man, in comparison with the animals he once hunted has changed dramatically through the ages. Jacob Bronowski observed that "the ancestor of man that hunted its ancestor two million years ago would at once recognize the Topi antelope today. But he would not recognize the hunter today, black or white, as his own decendant."
(Reprinted from Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts, 1981 Ed., Pg. 330).
KF4WOD
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).
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NVIS (or "Near Vertical Incident Skywave") is not a new antenna, nor is it a "new" concept or method exactly! It is taking a tried-and-true antenna design (the dipole) and using it in a not-well-known configuration. Dave, WA9OTP, states: "Normally, when we think of putting up a dipole, we want to get it up as high as possible. With NVIS, you want to put it as low as possible (say 20 ft or less)!" Why?!!! "With the low orientation,
we diminish the low angle of radiation (horizon to horizon) and enhance the sky- wave reflection. Our HF signal now goes straight up, strikes the F2 layer...and comes straight back down within about a 200-mile cone of coverage! The benefit?
Coverage in the mountains
" (where other means [VHF/UHF simplex or repeaters] may fail). This concept was introduced on the CARES website as a "scenario" in the Editorial Section. See "Cares-News" at
http://www.caldwell-ncares.org
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The NVIS Antenna Method
ELECTION NIGHT
Elections for the nominated club officers is sheduled (according to the Constitution & ByLaws) to occur during the November meeting.
COME TO THE NOVEMBER MEETING TO CAST YOUR VOTE!! NIMS 100 TRAINING WILL BEGIN SOON THEREAFTER AS THE PROGRAM.
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