From w3sj@tampabay.rr.com  Wed Jan  1 15:14:26 2003
From: w3sj@tampabay.rr.com (Dave at RR)
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 10:14:26 -0500
Subject: [Ares-races] HNY 2003
Message-ID: <009001c2b1a8$7966d680$f1011c18@tampabay.rr.com>

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From BillLennox@aol.com  Mon Jan  6 09:08:41 2003
From: BillLennox@aol.com (BillLennox@aol.com)
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 04:08:41 EST
Subject: [Ares-races] Hams help out during OK telephone emergency
Message-ID: <36.35b57b27.2b4aa199@aol.com>

In a message dated 1/3/03 11:27:59 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
memberlist@www.arrl.org writes:

> Subj: ARLB003 Hams help out during OK telephone emergency 
>  Date: 1/3/03 11:27:59 PM Pacific Standard Time
>  From: <A HREF="mailto:memberlist@www.arrl.org">memberlist@www.arrl.org</A>
>  To: <A HREF="mailto:BillLennox@aol.com">BillLennox@aol.com</A>
>  Sent from the Internet 
> 
> 
> 
> SB QST @ ARL $ARLB003
> ARLB003 Hams help out during OK telephone emergency
> 
> ZCZC AG03
> QST de W1AW  
> ARRL Bulletin 3  ARLB003
> From ARRL Headquarters  
> Newington CT  January 3, 2003
> To all radio amateurs 
> 
> SB QST ARL ARLB003
> ARLB003 Hams help out during OK telephone emergency
> 
> Hams responded with emergency communication when Broken Arrow, OK, a
> town of 75,000, experienced a citywide telephone outage on December
> 23. A request went out for amateurs to assist with emergency effort
> at the local Emergency Operations Center and three area hospitals.
> 
> Several hams from the Broken Arrow Amateur Radio Club responded to
> the call, staffing positions at the Broken Arrow EOC and three
> hospital emergency rooms.
> 
> The operation lasted about five hours, with messages between the
> EOCs and hospitals being passed. Lines of communications were also
> opened with the Oklahoma State Department of Civil Emergency
> Management in Oklahoma City via the HF amateur station in the Broken
> Arrow EOC.
> 
> The trouble with the phone system was created by the loss of SS7
> signaling, a digital protocol for call routing. Unable to route a
> call out of the local exchange, Broken Arrow phone customers could
> not call outside the city limits. As a result, the City of Broken
> Arrow implemented its Telecommunications Failure Plan.
> NNNN
> /EX
> 



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From KD5PCK@cs.com  Sat Jan 11 15:29:33 2003
From: KD5PCK@cs.com (KD5PCK@cs.com)
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:29:33 EST
Subject: [Ares-races] Check out iB::Topic::Ham assist Coast Guard
Message-ID: <1e.7025b36.2b51925d@cs.com>

To all :
Check out this link for an article from QRZ.com:

http://www.qrz.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST&f=3&t=26787 <A HREF="http://www.qrz.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST&f=3&t=26787">Click here: 
iB::Topic::Ham assist Coast Guard</A> 

                               73
                               Scott Hernandez
                               KD5PCK


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From KD5PCK@cs.com  Sat Jan 11 15:40:36 2003
From: KD5PCK@cs.com (KD5PCK@cs.com)
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:40:36 EST
Subject: [Ares-races] Check out iB::Topic::Ham assist Coast Guard
Message-ID: <76.287e45f2.2b5194f4@cs.com>

Here's the link one more time since I think I screwed it up the first time:

http://www.qrz.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST&f=3&t=26787

                               73
                               Scott Hernandez
                               KD5PCK


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From nq4u@bellsouth.net  Mon Jan 13 03:49:16 2003
From: nq4u@bellsouth.net (Jimmy Floyd)
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 21:49:16 -0600
Subject: [Ares-races] Hamfest
Message-ID: <015301c2bab6$beafc640$c1c92043@mshome.net>

The MTARS hamfest will be in Tullahoma, Tn. on March 29, 2003. This will
also be the Tn. Section ARES Convention.
If there is anyone that will be in the area and has a program to present
please let me know. We are located about 60 miles N. of Huntsville, Al. and
70 miles SE of Nashville, Tn. The hamfest is a one day event with attendance
of 300 to 500 people.

Hope to see you there.

Jimmy Floyd
NQ4U
EC - Coffee Co.
DEC 5 Tn.
LGL - Coffee Co. Tn. Section
President MTARS


From KD5PCK@cs.com  Sat Jan 25 15:23:02 2003
From: KD5PCK@cs.com (KD5PCK@cs.com)
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 10:23:02 EST
Subject: [Ares-races] Jackson,MS Hamfest
Message-ID: <d.81f47f0.2b6405d6@cs.com>

To All:

Just a reminder on the following:

      Friday, January 31 & Saturday February 1, 2003
      Capital City Hamfest sponsored by JXNARC
      Jackson, MS
      8AM-4PM Saturday
      Admission $5.00 free parking
      www.jxnarc.org ab5wf@arrl.net
      talk-in 146.76


                               73
                               Scott Hernandez
                               KD5PCK


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From BillLennox@aol.com  Sun Jan 26 18:39:22 2003
From: BillLennox@aol.com (BillLennox@aol.com)
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 13:39:22 EST
Subject: [Ares-races] Australian Ham Radio Operators Run Fire Fighters' Radios
Message-ID: <155.1ad99957.2b65855a@aol.com>

From:  http://www.arrl.org

Australian Amateurs Volunteering to Run Fire Fighters' Radios

       NEWINGTON, CT, Jan 24, 2003--With extreme wildfire conditions expected 
over the long Australia Day holiday weekend January 25-27, Amateur Radio 
volunteers have been operating fire fighting service radio communication 
equipment. The Wireless Institute of Australia Victoria reports that hams 
have been pitching in over the past week. Fires have been raging in the 
rugged alpine country of northeastern Victoria for 18 days, and smoke has 
blanketed area hundreds of kilometers away, including metropolitan Melbourne. 


       "There is an ongoing requirement for the hams to use their skills and 
handle essential and logistic radio traffic," the WIA Victoria said. 
"Hundreds of firefighters are battling the outbreaks in the heat and dense 
smoke, which for most of the past four days greatly reduced visibility 
limiting the use of aerial water bombers." 

       The WIA's emergency service arm, the Wireless Institute Civic 
Emergency Network (WICEN) has more than a dozen radio amateurs on duty at 
three center--Mt Beauty, Corryong and Ovens--operating radios and handling 
emergency traffic. WIA-Victoria President Jim Linton, VK3PC, said the forest 
lands fire fighting agency, the Department of Sustainability and Environment 
(DSE), called on WICEN-Victoria to provide operators to run its radio 
communication gear and free up personnel for other duties. 

       WIA reports that with no end to the fire emergency in sight, many 
residents of the stricken region have fled to safer areas as conditions 
worsen with high temperatures, single digit relative humidity and high winds. 
Celsius temperatures in the 40s, single-digit relative humidity and gusty 
winds have coupled with five years of drought conditions to set the scene for 
the worst summer fire season in 20 years, the WIA reports. In and around the 
capital city of Canberra, bush fires earlier this month claimed at least four 
lives, caused many more injuries and destroyed some 400 homes. WICEN was not 
activated in the Canberra area, however. 

       WICEN State Coordinator, John Kerr, VK3BAF, at Mt Beauty reports that 
the amateurs' assignments operating the trunking radio system have at times 
involved 12 to 14-hour shifts. He says the WICEN-Victoria members have fitted 
in well and the DSE has expressed its appreciation for the volunteers' 
contributions. WICEN-Victoria has drawn up a list of volunteers to replace 
teams now in the field over the holiday weekend and to deploy elsewhere in 
Victoria if needed. 

For more information, visit the <A HREF="http://www.wiavic.org.au/">WIA Victoria</A> Web site < <A HREF="http://www.wiavic.org.au/">
http://www.wiavic.org.au/</A>  > 










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