Volume 4 Number 4 April 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
April 12th (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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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... ??
A single lightning bolt may give off 3,750 million kilowatts of electrical energy. About 75 percent of this energy is dissipated as heat, raising the temperature of the surrounding air to around 27,000 degrees fahrenheit and causing rapid air expansion which leads to sound waves-thunder-that can be heard up to eighteen miles away.
(Reprinted from Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts, 1981 Ed., Pg. 107).
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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NEW VE APPOINTMENT
Jerry Gragg, KF4PJL, a member of the Lenoir ARC, has received his appointment to the WCARS VE Team...bringing the total to 5 members of the club to hold VE credentials. Congrats Jerry!
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SPRING HAS SPRUNG
Do not follow instructions in bogus e-mails: The ARRL is alerting members
--and especially users of the ARRL E-Mail Forwarding Service:
http://www.arrl.org/members-only/emailfwd.html
> -- about bogus e-mails that claim to be from the "arrl.net user support team." There is no such entity, and the messages do not originate with ARRL but appear to be coming from outside the US. Recipients should not follow the instructions in the e-mail, which reads, "We have received reports that your e-mail account has been used to send a large amount of unsolicited commercial email messages during this week. We suspect that your computer had been infected by a recent virus and now contains a hidden proxy server. We recommend you to follow our instructions in order to keep your computer safe." Following the instructions will have the opposite effect, however, infecting your computer with the MyDoom Trojan worm and making it part of a spamming network. The League urges all members to invest in and use anti-virus software.
(ARRL Letter, Vol 26, No 13, Mar 30, 2007)
Or at least It was thought as this picture was taken 4-5 days ago. But winter's grasp hasn't turned us loose yet as our area's weather forecast is dipping us back down into the 20's as we enter Easter weekend. Brrr!
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