Volume 4 Number 5 May 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
May 10th (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... ??
If one gram (one-twenty-eighth of an ounce) of matter could be converted into its equivalent of pure energy and the energy used with perfect efficiency to keep a 1,000 watt light bulb glowing, there would be enough energy to keep it lit for 2, 850 years, or from the time of Homer to the present.
(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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ANTENNA WORK PARTY!
At the April meeting, a work party to assemble and erect our new antennas for our kiosk/operating desk equipment was scheduled for May 5th (Saturday) at 9 AM at the EOC. COME!
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THE WIND'S COMETH!
EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN
Robert Reid (WR4UNC) outlines the Caldwell County Emergency Operations Plan during the club's program portion of the April meeting. Robert also covered the sophisticated "WebEOC" software that can track personnel as well as materiel.
In the late-evening and early- morning hours of April 14-15, the Lenoir area was struck by high winds (est. 40 mph continuous with gusts to 60 mph) which left many areas without power due to large trees toppling onto utility wires... including AC lines, telephone lines, and cable TV lines. Many areas were without power for 3-4 days. Line crews came from Shelby, NC and other nearby cities to assist in the aftermath cleanup. Power saws and generators could be heard in many communities.
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