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Meeting: CARP

CARP November 2008 Meeting

Matt KG6YLJ will be giving a presentation on Emergency and Disaster Preparedness.

Time/Date:
Friday November 7th, 2008 at 7:00 pm

Location:
Clovis Senior Center – Classroom
850 Fourth Street
Clovis, CA
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Contact:
Rob Mavis, AE6GE
ae6ge@k6arp.org

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CARP Helps the Morning Drive Net with Repeater System

The Morning Drive Net is held weekday mornings from 7:30 am to 8:00 am and provides weather and traffic information for the local morning commute. For the last few days while , the Fresno Amateur Radio Club W6TO repeater is experiencing technical difficulties, the net has been held on the CARP repeater system.

Previously when the FARC repeater was experiencing technical difficulties, CARP has allowed the Morning Drive Net control operators to temporarily move the net the CARP repeater system. CARP is dedicated to assisting not only the public but also the ham community. Continue Reading »

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Community Groups Donate Disaster Units to Alameda

MercuryNews.com – Alameda County
By Laurie Bouck, Correspondent
November 2, 2008

The city of Alameda will soon gain two new mobile disaster units to manage earthquakes and other large-scale disasters. The Community of Harbor Bay Association and the Harbor Bay Business Association will present the units to the city in a ceremony on Saturday.

The special trailers are the first of their kind in Alameda. They contain medical supplies, search and rescue tools and radio communication devices, designed to be used by Alameda’s Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) and the Amateur Radio Club of Alameda (ARCA) in a disaster.
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Amateur Radio Operators Help Galveston Residents Communicate

Galveston County Daily News
By Rick Cousins, Contributor
September 28, 2008
GALVESTON — One elderly lady endured Hurricane Ike’s wrath. She was sitting in her modest home located near the San Luis hotel — alone in the dark. Her husband was hundreds of miles away in Utah, worried and unable to reach her as landline and cell phone links went offline one by one. Ike ruthlessly destroyed telephone lines and damaged numerous cell towers, and left many others without operating power. The result: a nearly complete communications blackout rarely experienced by 21st century America.
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Ham Radio Shows It’s Gray

Aging hobbyist hope to reach new generation

The Boston Globe – Boston.com
By: Mark Arsenault, Globe Correspondent
October 2, 2008

FRAMINGHAM – The spinning radio dial yielded pops and crackles, blips of Morse code from a ham radio operator in the Midwest, a warbling voice in a German accent, and, finally, a friend.

“CQ, CQ, CQ,” came the call, strong and clear, amateur-radio shorthand for a general invitation to speak to anybody who’s listening.

“This is Whiskey-1-Foxtrot-Yankee,” replied Sumner Weisman in a smooth voice, giving his radio club’s call letters, W1FY, assigned by the US government. “We’re the Framingham Amateur Radio Association.”

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Hiker Summons Help with Ham Radio

SeattlePI.com
By: Jackson Holtz – The (Everett) Herald
September 23, 2008

EVERETT, WA — A series of dots and dashes bouncing off the ionosphere Sunday helped save a hiker stranded on Buck Creek Pass east of Glacier Peak.

The hiker, who broke his leg, used a low-voltage portable radio and Morse code to send out a call to help.

Six hundred miles away, in Bozeman, Mont., Robert Williams was testing his ham radio Sunday when he heard the call signal, “W-7-A-U.”

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Meeting: Fresno Co ARES/RACES

Fresno County ARES and RACES Monthly Meeting

Members, served agencies, and interested visitors are welcome. Fresno County ARES/RACES meets every 4th Thursday of the month to discuss emergency communications by Amateur Radio Operators and emergency preparedness in general.

Time/Date:
Fourth Thursday of each Month at 7:00 pm

Location:
Fresno Citadel Salvation Army
1854 Fulton St
Fresno, CA
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Contact:
Dan Pruitt, AE6SX
Fresno County ARES Emergency Coordinator and Assistant RACES Officer
ae6sx@arrl.net

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