Volume 4 Number 3 March 5, 2007 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 for
March 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!
*********************
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
.
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... ??
Dinosaurs were mostly vegetarians, despite their enormous size and decidedly carnivorous appearance. One exception was the mammoth
Tyrannosaurus rex
, which ate other dinosaurs. The food making up a single bite for a tyrannosaur, it was speculated, would feed a human family of four for an entire month.
(Reprinted from Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts, 1981 Ed., Pg. 136).
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).
Pg 1
To Website
New Public Relations Campaign
Annual Club Dues Are Due!
March 31st marks the last day that a member who is "in arrears" may pay his/her yearly club dues before being dropped from the membership roster. Dues have been "due & payable" since Jan 1, 2007. Dues may be paid at a meeting or by mail.
Next
Driving While Distracted
"Ham Radio . . . Getting the message through for your family and community" is the theme of the League's 2007 public relations campaign. The "Emergency Radio" Web site <
http://www.emergency-radio.org
> has debuted.
The new Web site is a partner to the "Ham Radio . . . Getting the message through for your family and community" brochure now available.
"If an emergency or disaster should happen, the new 'Ham Radio . . . Getting the message through' site has the capability to quickly upload current information, providing PIOs with words and pictures to circulate to the media while the event is still news," ARRL Media Manager Allen Pitts, W1AGP reports.
Bills aimed at thwarting "driving while cellular" and "driving while distracted" behavior have been introduced in several states, and most are worded broadly enough to potentially proscribe some Amateur Radio mobile operation"devices" & "distractions".
One Georgia Bill (HB 5)
defines "device" to cover not only cellular or mobile telephones -- whether or not they're hands-free, but any "wireless communication device, personal digital assistant, radio or citizens band radio." HB 5 thus appears to include such routine activities as changing the station on your car radio! (See Pg. 7)
Next
