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July 27, 2006
New Wood County ID Cards
Thanks to the help of the good people at the Wood County EMA office we have new ID cards to distribute to our members. The new cards are more to the standard of what is being issued to Wood County employees but do indicate that we are members of Wood County ARES. The new cards will be distributed at our next monthly meeting which is scheduled for August 19th.
Bob KG2BC
Posted by at 12:28 PM
July 24, 2006
Perrysburg Township Antenna Install
That's our AEC, Craig K8IXL, up on the Perrysburg Township Ladder Truck. Thanks Craig!
Posted by at 6:50 AM
Net Protocol - Leave Gaps Between Transmissions
This is worthy of printing here. This news piece was received from Richland County ARES:
SKYWARN NEWS
Well, sad to say, but it finally happened. On June 22, 2006 during the severe wind damage event that we had, we had check-ins coming in and they were right on top of each other. On this day however, we had a station from Crawford County give his call and then the next person jump right after his call. What we didn’t know, is that Crawford station was still transmitting with the words “PRIORITY TRAFFIC!” This was the Crawford County EMA Director! He needed to contact the DEC as Crawford County Sheriffs Department had lost communications and Crawford’s ECs were not available.. Thus his call for help here was also killed by not leaving enough breaks on the check-ins. If the other station would have given that time, we would have heard the Priority Traffic. This is exactly why we must give enough time after the callsign to make sure that there is nothing else coming with that traffic. This was a major storm and I know that everyone was exited, I was too. I’m not mad at anyone, but let’s use this as a learning tool. Everyone has been doing a wonderful job and I am very pleased with this. Let’s just slow down the check-ins so something like this doesn’t happen again.
KC8DTW
A.E.C. Richland County Skywarn
Posted by at 6:26 AM
Net Control Schedule
Here's the latest Net Control Operator schedule. If you see your name here for one of the nets and know you won't be able to take it please contact Bob, KG2BC. Thanks.
Net Control Schedule
25-Jul Rick Laurence KD8OM
1-Aug Don Buehrer K8OVO
8-Aug Phil Phillips W8PSK
15-Aug Don Buehrer K8OVO
22-Aug Craig Lahotte K8IXL
29-Aug Bill Wilkins WD8JWJ
5-Sep Bob Schumann KG2BC
12-Sep Paul Robichaux KG4RWS
19-Sep Rick Laurence KD8OM
26-Sep Steve M. K8BBK
3-Oct Phil Phillips W8PSK
10-Oct Don Buehrer K8OVO
17-Oct Craig Lahotte K8IXL
24-Oct Bill Wilkins WD8JWJ
31-Oct Bob Schumann KG2BC
7-Nov Steve M. K8BBK
14-Nov Phil Phillips W8PSK
21-Nov Don Buehrer K8OVO
28-Nov Rick Laurence KD8OM
Posted by at 6:20 AM