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Shelby Amateur Radio Club's VHF Net This net is open to anyone with an amateur
license who would like to participate. Very friendly rag-chew portion of
the net after the formalities. Please stop by every Monday and Friday
night and check in and rag chew with your friendly net control operators.
Please note you do not have to be a member of our club to participate in this
activity. This net exists for the purpose(s) of training in the time of
any emergency and also as a great time of fellowship with our fellow hams.
Stop by as often as you can, we'd love to have you drop by. Check-ins 283 | Announcements 35 | Formals 4 | Informal 0 Top Three Net Controls: Everett, W4YAB 37 | Todd, KG4UZT 36 | Al, N4HAW 33 Thank you to all the regulars that continue to check in with us. I hope to hear more checking in, in the future. If you are interested in becoming a net control please contact me at k4zxn@bellsouth.net, you do not have to be a club member to participate in the net or be a net control. February has continued to be an awesome month for the Shelby Amateur Radio Club’s VHF Emergency Net. I’m proud of the folks in our club and the surrounding area who continue to support Amateur Radio and the service that it can provide to emergency management. The success of this net and now the ARES net on Wednesday night is a testimony of the dedication the amateurs in our club and the county continue to demonstrate through their participation in this net and now in ARES. Thanks guys and gals! It is good to know that so many folks are out there and with equipment willing to be there should an emergency call the ham radio community into action. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart. 73 and God Bless.
Upcoming Net Schedule March and April
2008
Don’t forget to check-in on Monday and Fridays on
146.880 at 8:30 pm
12/31/2007 From
the Desk of your Net Manager… It is with much
excitement that I announce N4HAW, Al Whatley has accepted the position of
Assistant Net Manager for the Shelby Amateur Radio Club VHF Emergency Net.
Al Whatley has been an NCS for many many years and has been very reliable
in every job he has done for the club. Al
is also responsible for coordinating the communication for the Soccer Tournament
each year and does a fine job of coordinating this.
Thanks Albert for all you do for this club and for the hobby in general.
Anyone interested in becoming a net control station should contact either
of us and we can help get you scheduled into the rotation – K4ZXN
and N4HAW. Thanks, From the December SHAMRAC From
the desk of the SARC Net Manager … Shelby
Amateur Radio Club, Emergency Communications: By
Susan Melvin, K4ZXN Shelby Amateur Radio Club’s history is steeped with
Civil Defense Communication. Going
back throughout the years the dedication of this club is documented by newspaper
article after newspaper article showing our charter members and those that
followed involved in RACES, the communication division of Civil Defense and/or
ARES. In 1960, several
of our beloved members were involved in a rescue effort in snowbound West
Jefferson. A trip that is usually
around 2.5 hours took nearly 7 hours in the wintry treacherous conditions. The rescuers reached a family who was on their “last pan of
biscuits”. This story is just one
of many stories involving our club and it’s members over the past 50 years
being involved in Emergency Service.
In May of 1960 our club’s founders (in it’s 3rd year of
existence) participated in a Civil Defense exercise.
This exercise and others like it still exist in our amateur radio
community. In the drill from 1960, a blast was reported 60 miles
from Shelby, with a 30 second moment of brightness.
The blast was reported at 10:35 am, J. Don Shields reported promptly to
National Civil Defense headquarters. The
“blast” was part of an exercise similar to the SET.
The exercise lasted two days and involved weathermen determining the
effects of fallout. The drill also
included an attack on Pope Air force base and the port of Wilmington.
Within 18 minutes every post in the county was manned, with 16 Civil
Defense Radios, 15 county radios, three CAP radios and highway patrol equipment.
259 people in the county, including off-duty fireman and rescue workers
reported for duty. I will try to
bring more stories from our club’s past involvement in emergency
communications in future newsletters. Amateur radio is still part of the Civil Defense
today and is embraced by Homeland Security and other served agencies.
Our club, to this day, still trains regularly in the event of an
emergency. Our net provides a training ground twice a week, while it also serves
as a place for members and others in the area to connect.
Our club also supports and actively participates in the ARRL Field Day
each June. The following is an
excerpt from the ARRL website: “For
75 years, Amateur Radio operators across the country have been providing
emergency communications when other systems failed or overloaded in a crisis.
Each year they take their equipment into unusual locations to test and make sure
Ham Radio will always be there to get the message through.”
The operators participating in field day use emergency power for 24 hours
to make as many contacts as possible. This
readiness has been put to good use in recent years nationwide and worldwide when
other communication systems have failed. Our Field Day Committee will be meeting after the
first of the year to begin a plan of action for the 2008 Field Day.
If you have any suggestions for this year’s field day, you would like
to bring to the committee’s attention, please email K4ZXN,
KM4C,
KG4UZT
or K4PDW . As Net Manager for the club, I have a particular
interest in emergency communications and field day. I have been working on revamping the net over the past year
and met with NCS staff at the last club meeting.
I’m hoping that these changes will make the net more efficient and
enjoyable for all who participate. I
have been gaining valuable training since 2005 in the area of emcomm and hope
that this training will serve this club well as Net Manager. As accepted by
membership on 11/13/2007 October
2007 Net Report: Check-ins 281
Top
Net Control: Everett Hord, W4YAB
with 38 Check-ins
Memo November 18, 2007 To: All Net Controls/Participants: Dear Fellow Amateurs: 2008 is quickly approaching and I realize that Christmas is on it's way. I would like to thank everyone who has participated in the success of our net. 2008 will be an exciting year for our net as I have been in a year long process to re-vamp the Net procedures and provide more extensive training to our net control stations. In 2008, we hope to involve, in a more active roll, the participants of the net in training ideas. Record keeping on the part of the NCS's and Net Manager have been revamped in order to better improve the participants experience on our net. The changes we are implementing are mostly behind the scene changes and are apt to be modified throughout the course of the year in an effort to be more efficient. I ask and welcome comments on how we might improve the Net experience for both the NCS and the Net participants. As Always, Thank you for all you do to make the Shelby Net a great success. Your net manager, Susan Melvin, K4ZXN
Net Control Stations if unable to pass your net report as a formal on the net, please get me the net reports (standard format) before the end of the month. Please get the complete reports back to me at the following club meeting. Thank you, Susan, K4ZXN
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