Thursday, June 22, 2006

Attention All Amateurs...

Arizona ARES requests clear frequencies if needed for fire emergency (Jun 22, 2006) -- Given the heavy HF activity anticipated during Field Day weekend, Arizona Section Emergency Coordinator Rick Aldom, W7STS, has requested that radio amateurs steer clear of the ARES net frequencies of 7248 kHz (days) and 3992 kHz (night) and The Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network (SATERN) frequency of 3977.7 kHz. These frequencies may be used for Arizona fire-related emergency traffic, if necessary. He notes that since the HF operation would employ NVIS (near-vertical incidence skywave) antennas, stations outside Arizona may not be able to hear any emergency nets. Aldom says he expects that most emergency communication will take place on VHF and UHF repeaters, however.

posted by Dave C @ Thursday, June 22, 2006 0 comments  

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Helping out and Learning While About, Tour De Cure

What an opportunity to help and learn at the same time. Once a year the Local area amateurs of Box Elder County and surrounding Area get a chance to help out with Tour De Cure a bike race designed to promote Health and race funds to find a cure for diabetes. If you think about it some one you know either a family member or friend or fellow ham may have the disease. I have serveral friend and family members with type I and type II so this race has some meaning to me personally. This year we did a good job most of things went right. We all learned some things we can do to make things better next year. Nobody I have talked or heard on the net had major complaints.

I don't have a summary to post yet but, if you look below this posting you will see a comment button if you click on it you can make comments about what I have said and about last Saturday. So I look forward to seeing some comments

73

KD7OUP

posted by Dave C @ Tuesday, June 13, 2006 0 comments