From n7xyo at yahoo.com  Fri Mar  2 23:04:22 2012
From: n7xyo at yahoo.com (Mark Conklin)
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 20:04:22 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [ARRL-OK] Deadly storms roar across Midwest, South
Message-ID: <1330747462.34594.YahooMailNeo@web160106.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

We may be into a LONG dangerous storm season...? 
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Oklahoma ARES is self standing Non-Governmental organization which?totally relies on the efforts and work of a?100% all?volunteer team.? Unlike?many of the served agencies we assist we do not have any paid staff with in the?Oklahoma Section.
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Here's where you can help.??There 77 counties in Oklahoma.? We have 33 county level (EC)?ARES-OK leaders?here in our state - which covers most of the populace counties. We need leaders in 44 more counties, plus each of these leaders need volunteers to suport the program with in each county.
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Tell your HAM buddys - share this infomation... ask folks to make sure they are registered on www.ARESOK.org?,? then get trained, make a kit, be part of the plan.
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We need your help... and I fear this will be a busy season and normal communications will be challanged.
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Our thoughts and prayers are with the family's affected by today's tornado outbreak.
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Mark Conklin, N7XYO
Oklahoma Section Emergency Coordinator
Amateur Radio Emergency Service
918.232.8346
n7xyo at arrl.net
Follow me on Twitter @N7XYO

www.ARESOK.org
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Mar. 2, 2012
USATODAY.com
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HENRYVILLE, Ind. (AP) ? Powerful storms stretching from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes wrecked several Indiana towns and killed at least 15 people Friday as the system tore roofs off schools and homes, flattened a fire station, flipped over tractor-trailer trucks and damaged a maximum security prison. It was the second deadly tornado outbreak this week.
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Authorities reported nine deaths in southern Indiana, where Marysville was leveled and nearby Henryville also suffered extreme damage. There were five deaths in Kentucky and one in Ohio.
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Aerial footage from a TV news helicopter flying over Henryville showed numerous wrecked houses, some with their roofs torn off and many surrounded by debris. The video shot by WLKY in Louisville, Ky., also shows a mangled school bus protruding from the side of a one-story building and dozens of overturned semis strewn around the smashed remains of a truck stop.
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Andy Bell was guarding a demolished garage until his friend could get to the business to retrieve some valuable tools Friday night. He looked around at the devastation, pointing to what were now empty lots between a Catholic church and a Marathon station about a block away.
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"There were houses from the Catholic church on the corner all the way to the Marathon station. And now it's just a pile of rubble, all the way up," he said. "It's just a great ?"
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Much of the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys are under the greatest threat for severe weather and tornadoes today. Areas in purple are under the highest risk; red areas are in a "moderate" risk, and yellow in a "slight" risk area.
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His voice trailed off, before he finished: "Wood sticks all the way up."
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An Associated Press reporter in Henryville said the high school was destroyed and the second floor had been ripped off the middle school next door. Authorities said school was in session when the tornado hit, but there were only minor injuries there.
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Classroom chairs were scattered on the ground outside, trees were uprooted and cars had huge dents from baseball-sized hail. Throughout town, there were bent utility poles and piles of debris. Volunteers pushed shopping carts full of water and food up the street and handed it out to people.
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Ruth Simpson of Salem came to the demolished town right after the storm hit, looking for relatives that she hadn't been able to find. "I can't find them," she said, starting to cry, and then walked away.
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The town was without power, and there was no cell phone reception or service for land lines. Authorities planned to search the rubble through the night for survivors.
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By nightfall, the only visible lights in town were vehicles inching through town. The rural town about 20 miles north of Louisville is the home of Indiana's oldest state forest and the birthplace of Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Col. Harland Sanders.
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Ernie Hall, 68, weathered the tornado inside his tiny home near the high school. Hall says he saw the twister coming down the road toward his house, whipping up debris in its path.
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He and his wife ran into an interior room and used a mattress to block the door as the tornado struck. It destroyed his car and blew out the picture window overlooking his porch.
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"I knew there was some bad weather out in the Midwest that was coming this way, but you don't count on a tornado hitting here that bad," he said.
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The threat of tornadoes was expected to last until late Friday for parts of Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana and Ohio. Forecasters at the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center in Oklahoma said the massive band of storms was putting 10 million people in several states at high risk of dangerous weather.
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"Maybe five times a year we issue what is kind of the highest risk level for us at the Storm Prediction Center," forecaster Corey Mead said. "This is one of those days."
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Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport was closed temporarily because of debris on the runways, but one of three runways had reopened by late afternoon. A fire station was flattened and several barns were toppled in northern Kentucky across the Ohio River from the badly damaged Indiana towns.
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Terry Sebastian, a spokesman for Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear, said five people were killed in two counties Friday.
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The outbreak was also causing problems in states to the south, including Alabama and Tennessee where dozens of houses were damaged. It comes two days after an earlier round of storms killed 13 people in the Midwest and South.
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At least 20 homes were ripped off their foundation and eight people were injured in the Chattanooga, Tenn., area after strong winds and hail lashed the area. To the east in Cleveland, Blaine Lawson and his wife Billie were watching the weather when the power went out. Just as they began to seek shelter, strong winds ripped the roof off their home. Neither was hurt.
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"It just hit all at once," said Blaine Lawson, 76. "Didn't have no warning really. The roof, insulation and everything started coming down on us. It just happened so fast that I didn't know what to do. I was going to head to the closet but there was just no way. It just got us."
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Thousands of schoolchildren in several states were sent home as a precaution, and several Kentucky universities were closed. The Huntsville, Ala., mayor said students in area schools sheltered in hallways as severe weather passed in the morning.
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"Most of the children were in schools so they were in the hallways so it worked out very well," said Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle.
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Five people were taken to area hospitals, and several houses were leveled.
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An apparent tornado also damaged a state maximum security prison about 10 miles from Huntsville, but none of the facility's approximately 2,100 inmates escaped. Alabama Department of Corrections spokesman Brian Corbett said there were no reports of injuries, but the roof was damaged on two large prison dormitories that each hold about 250 men. Part of the perimeter fence was knocked down, but the prison was secure.
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"It was reported you could see the sky through the roof of one of them," Corbett said.
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For residents and emergency officials across the state, tornado precautions and cleanup are part of a sadly familiar routine. A tornado outbreak last April killed about 250 people around the state, with the worst damage in Tuscaloosa to the south.
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The Storm Prediction Center's Mead said a powerful storm system was interacting with humid, unstable air that was streaming north from the Gulf of Mexico.
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"The environment just becomes more unstable and provides the fuel for the thunderstorms," Mead said.
Schools sent students home early or canceled classes entirely in states including Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky and Indiana. In Alabama alone, more than 20 school systems dismissed classes early Friday. The University of Kentucky, the University of Louisville and several other colleges in the state also canceled classes.
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In one subdivision in in Athens, Ala., damage was visible on 10 homes. Homeowner Bill Adams watched as two men ripped shingles off the roof of a house he rents out, and he fretted about predictions that more storms would pass through.
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"Hopefully, they can at least get a tarp on it before it starts again," he said.
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Not far away, the damage was much worse for retired high school band director Stanley Nelson. Winds peeled off his garage door and about a third of his roof, making rafters and boxes in his attic visible from the street.
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"It's like it just exploded," he said.

From n7xyo at yahoo.com  Sat Mar  3 15:36:35 2012
From: n7xyo at yahoo.com (Mark Conklin)
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 12:36:35 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [ARRL-OK] Friday's Tornados
Message-ID: <1330806995.45773.YahooMailNeo@web160103.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

A tornado outbreak Friday (3/2/2012), unusual for this time of year, killed at least 36 people, obliterated communities and affected 17 million people from Texas to Indiana to North Carolina.
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Of the 36 victims, 17 were in Kentucky, 14 in Indiana, three in Ohio and one each in Alabama and Georgia. Authorities had reported many injured and?a total of 36 deaths, but reduced the number later Saturday (3/3/2012).?

From kc5qcv1 at att.net  Sun Mar  4 02:42:01 2012
From: kc5qcv1 at att.net (Ronald Mccubbin)
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 23:42:01 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [ARRL-OK] Lu Surgery Tonight
Message-ID: <1330846921.93083.YahooMailRC@web83715.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

Guys
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Lu's surgery went well she has three bypastes?and she will be in Intensive Care 
unit 2-3 days. She went into surgery at 6:30 pm?and over about 11:45pm. I got to 
see her about12:15am and still out of it. She is?in room C 221 intensive care 
unit then out into a rehab room?2 or?3 days. She is trying to?waking up 
now(1:38am)?? Thank everyone for your Prayers and concern
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Thank You
Ron. McCubbin
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PS: Keep?the pray?coming!

From k2gkk at hotmail.com  Sun Mar  4 08:29:39 2012
From: k2gkk at hotmail.com (D C *Mac* Macdonald)
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 07:29:39 -0600
Subject: [ARRL-OK] Lu Surgery Tonight
In-Reply-To: <1330846921.93083.YahooMailRC@web83715.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
References: <1330846921.93083.YahooMailRC@web83715.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <BLU129-W107F04A96756561A8C5C1BF1530@phx.gbl>


That's great news, Ron!
 
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* 73 - Mac, K2GKK/5 * 
* k2gkk at hotmail.com * 
* (Since 30 Nov 53) * 
* Oklahoma City, OK * 
* USAF, Ret (61-81) * 
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> Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 23:42:01 -0800
> From: kc5qcv1 at att.net
> To: KC5QCV1 at ATT.NET; kc5qcv1 at att.net
> Subject: [ARRL-OK] Lu Surgery Tonight
> 
> Guys
>  
> Lu's surgery went well she has three bypastes and she will be in Intensive Care 
> unit 2-3 days. She went into surgery at 6:30 pm and over about 11:45pm. I got to 
> see her about12:15am and still out of it. She is in room C 221 intensive care 
> unit then out into a rehab room 2 or 3 days. She is trying to waking up 
> now(1:38am)   Thank everyone for your Prayers and concern
>  
> Thank You
> Ron. McCubbin
>  
> PS: Keep the pray coming!
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> 
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From n7xyo at yahoo.com  Mon Mar  5 11:02:04 2012
From: n7xyo at yahoo.com (Mark Conklin)
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 08:02:04 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [ARRL-OK] ARES-OK Meeting at Green Country Hamfest 3/10
Message-ID: <1330963324.11292.YahooMailNeo@web160105.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

TELL YOUR FRIENDS!!!
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ARES-OK will be?holding a meeting at the GREEN COUNTRY HAMFEST this coming weekend.
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The?ARES-OK fourm is at 1000?CST on Saturday 3/10, 
followed?at 1100?CST by the ARRL Fourm with Guest speaker QST/QEX Technical Correspondence & Editor Larry Wolfgang - WR1B from ARRL Headquarters in Newington, CT.
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Also at?1300?CST DEC Cecil Higgins - AC0HA from the Missouri Section speaking about ARES operations after?last?May's?Joplin Tornado disaster.
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Find all the fourms at www.GreenCountryHamfest.com
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See YOU at Hamfest!

Mark Conklin, N7XYO
Oklahoma Section Emergency Coordinator
Amateur Radio Emergency Service
918.232.8346
n7xyo at arrl.net
Follow me on Twitter @N7XYO

www.ARESOK.org

From n7xyo at yahoo.com  Wed Mar  7 23:27:12 2012
From: n7xyo at yahoo.com (Mark Conklin)
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 20:27:12 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [ARRL-OK] Huge Magnetic Storm May Wreak Havoc
Message-ID: <1331180832.74447.YahooMailNeo@web160101.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

Wed Mar 7, 2012 05:19 PM ET??? Discovery News

A massive solar flare is unleashing a tremendous storm that could disrupt satellites, communications?and power grids.
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A massive solar flare that erupted from the sun late Tuesday (March 6) is unleashing one of the most powerful solar storms in more than five years, a solar tempest that may potentially interfere with satellites in orbit and power grids when it reaches Earth.
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"Space weather has gotten very interesting over the last 24 hours," Joseph Kunches, a space weather scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), told reporters today (March 7). "This was quite the Super Tuesday ? you bet."
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Several NASA spacecraft caught videos of the solar flare as it hurled a wave of solar plasma and charged particles, called a coronal mass ejection (CME), into space. The CME is not expected to hit Earth directly, but the cloud of charged particles could deliver a glancing blow to the planet.
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Early predictions estimate that the CME will reach Earth tomorrow (March 8) at 7 a.m. EST (1200 GMT), with the effects likely lasting for 24 hours, and possibly lingering into Friday, Kunches said.
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The solar eruptions occurred late Tuesday night when the sun let loose two huge X-class solar flares that ranked among the strongest type of sun storms. The biggest of those flares registered as an X5.4-class solar storm on the space weather scale, making it the strongest sun eruption so far this year. [See photos & videos of the solar storm]
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Typically, CMEs contain 10 billion tons of solar plasma and material, and the CME triggered by last night's X5.4-class flare is the one that could disrupt satellite operations, Kunches said.
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"When the shock arrives, the expectation is for heightened geomagnetic storm activity and the potential for heightened solar radiation," Kunches said.
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This heightened geomagnetic activity and increase in solar radiation could impact satellites in space and power grids on the ground. Some high-precision GPS users could also be affected, he said.
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"There is the potential for induced currents in power grids," Kunches said. "Power grid operators have all been alerted. It could start to cause some unwanted induced currents."
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Airplanes that fly over the polar caps could also experience communications issues during this time, and some commercial airliners have already taken precautionary actions, Kunches said. Powerful solar storms can also be hazardous to astronauts in space, and NOAA is working close with NASA's Johnson Space Center to determine if the six residents of the International Space Station need to take shelter in more protected areas of the orbiting laboratory, he added.
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The flurry of recent space weather events could also supercharge aurora displays (also known as the northern and southern lights) for skywatchers at high latitudes.
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"Auroras are probably the treat that we get when the sun erupts," Kunches said.
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Over the next couple days, Kunches estimates that brightened auroras could potentially be seen as far south as the southern Great Lakes region, provided the skies are clear.
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Yesterday's solar flares erupted from the giant active sunspot AR1429, which spewed an earlier X1.1-class flare on Sunday (March 4). The CME from that outburst mostly missed Earth, passing by last night at around 11 p.m. EST (0400 GMT March 7), according to the Space Weather Prediction Center, which is jointly managed by NOAA and the National Weather Service.
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This means that the planet is already experiencing heightened geomagnetic and radiation effects in advance of the next oncoming CME.
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"We've got a whole series of things going off, and they take different times to arrive, so they're all piling on top of each other," Harlan Spence, an astrophysicist at the University of New Hampshire, told SPACE.com.
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?"It complicates the forecasting and predicting because there are always inherent uncertainties with any single event. Now, with multiple events piling on top of one another, that uncertainty grows."
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Scientists are closely monitoring the situation, particularly because the AR1429 sunspot region remains potent.
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"We think there will be more coming," Kunches said. "The potential for more activity still looms."
As the sun rotates, the AR1429 region is shifting closer to the central meridian of the solar disk. From there, flares and associated CMEs may pack more a punch because they are more directly pointed at Earth.
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"The sun is waking up at a time in the month when Earth is coming into harm's way," Spence said. "Think of these CMEs somewhat like a bullet that is shot from the sun in more or less a straight line. When the sunspot is right in the middle of the sun, something launched from there is more or less directed right at Earth. It's kind of like how getting sideswiped by a car is different than a head-on collision. Even still, being sideswiped by a big CME can be quite dramatic."
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Spence estimates that sunspot region AR1429 will rotate past the central meridian in about a week.
The sun's activity ebbs and flows on an 11-year cycle. The sun is in the midst of Solar Cycle 24, and activity is expected to ramp up toward the solar maximum in 2013.

From jema at poncacity.net  Thu Mar  8 21:26:49 2012
From: jema at poncacity.net (Eddie Manley)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 20:26:49 -0600
Subject: [ARRL-OK] ARES-OK Meeting at Green Country Hamfest 3/10
In-Reply-To: <1330963324.11292.YahooMailNeo@web160105.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
References: <1330963324.11292.YahooMailNeo@web160105.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <3A29FD6BCDC24C0C9AE004D89FBF7B10@EddiePC>

I picked up all of the ARRL booth stuff and will be there about noon to 
1300hrs.   Looking forward to the HamFest
Eddie - K5EMS

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From: "Mark Conklin" <n7xyo at yahoo.com>
To: "ARES OK Yahoogroup" <aresoklahoma at yahoogroups.com>; "ARRL- OKList" 
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Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 10:02 AM
Subject: [ARRL-OK] ARES-OK Meeting at Green Country Hamfest 3/10


TELL YOUR FRIENDS!!!

ARES-OK will be holding a meeting at the GREEN COUNTRY HAMFEST this coming 
weekend.

The ARES-OK fourm is at 1000 CST on Saturday 3/10,
followed at 1100 CST by the ARRL Fourm with Guest speaker QST/QEX Technical 
Correspondence & Editor Larry Wolfgang - WR1B from ARRL Headquarters in 
Newington, CT.

Also at 1300 CST DEC Cecil Higgins - AC0HA from the Missouri Section 
speaking about ARES operations after last May's Joplin Tornado disaster.

Find all the fourms at www.GreenCountryHamfest.com

See YOU at Hamfest!

Mark Conklin, N7XYO
Oklahoma Section Emergency Coordinator
Amateur Radio Emergency Service
918.232.8346
n7xyo at arrl.net
Follow me on Twitter @N7XYO

www.ARESOK.org
______________________________________________________
___________________ Information __________________________

ARRL Oklahoma Section Manager - Kevin O'Dell, N0IRW  n0irw at arrl.org
Oklahoma Section Web page http://www.arrl.org/Groups/view/oklahoma

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From kc5fm at aol.com  Sun Mar 11 07:52:20 2012
From: kc5fm at aol.com (Lloyd Colston)
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 06:52:20 -0500
Subject: [ARRL-OK] GlobalTuners - On-line remotely controlled tuners
Message-ID: <CAGeNtEHg-MT_GtPfxjnqBUkc7x3AUDL8fBpRiX6=pTG8wU2ssg@mail.gmail.com>

http://www.globaltuners.com/receiver/vk4fsgw.php?receiver=225

Almost every Sunday, I try to listen to the Chapter 63 QCWA net on
3.845 using one of the receivers at Global Tuners.

This week, the Colorado radio was offline and I ended up using a tuner
in Wisconsin.

Not surprisingly, I was able to hear K5MRK and AC5HM even that far
away.  They seem to have good signals outside the State.  That would
be one reason why the net has a number of out of state checkins.  One
week, I heard a California station trying to check in.  He was not
being heard in Oklahoma, except those listening to the net on Global
Tuners.   <G>

If you need a way to monitor HF, here's one free way to do so.

73

Lloyd

From n7xyo at yahoo.com  Mon Mar 12 10:53:49 2012
From: n7xyo at yahoo.com (Mark Conklin)
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:53:49 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [ARRL-OK] EmComm Digital Communications
Message-ID: <1331564029.22228.YahooMailNeo@web160104.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

Most of the West Gulf and Delta Divisions are already using Winlink 2000 as the?method of digital communications throughout the?region.
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Oklahoma is behind the curve, and we we have a bit of catching up to do.
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The?first agenda item is for more folks in Oklahoma to become familiar?with Winlink 2000.??

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Below is information on a primer?about WL2K (Winlink 2000)?it's great place to start.

Mark Conklin, N7XYO
Oklahoma Section Emergency Coordinator
Amateur Radio Emergency Service
918.232.8346
n7xyo at arrl.net
Follow me on Twitter @N7XYO

www.ARESOK.org
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From ?http://www.winlink.org
WL2K for the "Digitally Challenged"
by Bud Thompson, N0IA. 
This is not a book, but an on-line course of instruction for those serious about learning how to use the EmComm ?last mile? portion of Winlink 2000, but who also may feel "digitally challenged." In this course, you first set up and experience WL2K e-mail over Amateur Radio without a data modem (TNC) or a radio. All that is required is a computer running any recent version of Microsoft Windows, Internet access, and a valid Amateur Radio license.
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To take this short course, and have lessons delivered by regular email, you must join the Yahoo Group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LOADING_WL2K_USER_PROGRAMS/moderated by N0IA, ?Bud? Thompson. You download the lessons from the file area of the group, and Bud and the gurus answer any questions and help you address any problems. You will work through several assignments at your own pace, and then determine if you wish to get further involved with a TNC and compatible radio over the air! 

From n7xyo at yahoo.com  Mon Mar 12 20:22:31 2012
From: n7xyo at yahoo.com (Mark Conklin)
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:22:31 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [ARRL-OK] Article MOBILE NVIS: New Jeresy ANG
Message-ID: <1331598151.75506.YahooMailNeo@web160105.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

Thanks to DEC Brian Gnad KB5TSI for sharing this interesting article on MOBILE NVIS antenna systems.

http://www.signal.army.mil/ocos/ac/articles/fiedler/dfnjarng.pdf

73

Mark Conklin, N7XYO
Oklahoma Section Emergency Coordinator
Amateur Radio Emergency Service
918.232.8346
n7xyo at arrl.net
Follow me on Twitter @N7XYO

www.ARESOK.org

From n7xyo at yahoo.com  Tue Mar 13 11:14:25 2012
From: n7xyo at yahoo.com (Mark Conklin)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:14:25 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [ARRL-OK] Online Emergency Communications Courses
Message-ID: <1331651665.98933.YahooMailNeo@web160102.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

Please share this info with every ham!
?
Please see the attached (as both a .doc and .pdf and posted below) and update your websites (newsletters)?with the latest Online Emergency Communications Course info.
?
Thank you,

Mark Conklin, N7XYO
Oklahoma Section Emergency Coordinator
Amateur Radio Emergency Service
918.232.8346
n7xyo at arrl.net
Follow me on Twitter @N7XYO

www.ARESOK.org
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?
Online Emergency Communications Courses????? ????????????????????????????
FREEOn-Line Incident Command Training

IS-100National Incident Management System (NIMS),
http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is100b.asp
IS-200ICS for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents,
http://www.training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is200b.asp

IS-700National Incident Management System (NIMS),
http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is700a.asp

IS-800.ANational Response Plan (NRP), An Introduction,
http://www.training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is800a.asp
?
On-Line Emergency Communication Training from
ARRL Certification and Continuing Education (C-CE)
EC-001-Introduction to Emergency Communication,??????????????????? http://www.arrl.org/online-course-catalog???????????????????????????????????????????? 
?
On-Line DigitalEmergency Communication Course - Winlink 2000
http://www.winlink.org/node/23
?
?
Learn from your own home with more ARRL on-line courses, especially for emergency communications volunteers:
http://www.arrl.org/emergency-communications-training

From n7xyo at yahoo.com  Thu Mar 15 15:25:28 2012
From: n7xyo at yahoo.com (Mark Conklin)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:25:28 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [ARRL-OK] Hams Provide Support during and After Tornado Outbreak
Message-ID: <1331839528.5006.YahooMailNeo@web160105.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

http://www.arrl.org/news/hams-in-indiana-kentucky-and-ohio-provide-support-during-and-after-tornado-outbreak
Hams in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio Provide Support during and After Tornado Outbreak 
?03/14/2012?ARRL News from ARRL.org
?
A devastating storm system moved across the United States on March 2, spawning a slew of tornadoes that contributed to at least 28 fatalities in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. These tornadoes followed an earlier outbreak that began on February 28 and left 13 dead across Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Tennessee and battered parts of Kentucky. The Clark County (Indiana) Emergency Management Agency activated the local RACES team to help provide communications support, hams in Eastern Kentucky set up SKYWARN nets to assist the local National Weather Service office and Cincinnati-area hams supported the National Weather Service and the American Red Cross.
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Indiana
On March 2, with a cold front bringing extreme weather to the Ohio Valley, the Clark County RACES team set up a SKYWARN net to relay weather reports to the National Weather Service office in Louisville, Kentucky. According to Clark County Assistant Emergency Coordinator Jeffrey Brady, N9WSV, this front spawned several tornadoes that swept through the northern part of Clark County, as well as other nearby counties.
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?After the storms passed, we started receiving reports of massive destruction in the Henryville and Marysville Indiana areas,? Brady told the ARRL. The National Weather Service reported that an EF4 tornado -- with estimated wind speeds of 170 miles per hour and a damage width of one-third of a mile -- swept through the town of Henryville, located in the northwest portion of the county. This tornado destroyed hundreds of homes and killed 11 people. Not more than an hour later, another tornado, an EF1 twister, came through town.
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?Immediately, ARRL Clark County Emergency Coordinator John Shean, N9TV, initiated contact with Clark County Emergency Management Director Les Kavanaugh,? Brady said. ?He activated the local RACES team to help provide communications support in the affected areas. We set up a net, and the RACES team established a command post at the Monroe Volunteer Fire Department. Cell phone service was out over the entire affected area, and landline service was also out in much of the area, due to destruction of infrastructure. To make matters even worse, vital components of the 800 MHz radio system that the public agencies use were either down or severely overloaded during much of the first 12 hours of the situation.?
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Brady told the ARRL that radio amateurs were dispatched to staff the relief stations to help coordinate health-and-welfare traffic and assisting with search-and-rescue efforts throughout Northern Clark County.
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?As of March 14, we are still providing operational support, Brady said. ?We are still coordinating health-and-welfare traffic, as well as directing volunteers and supplies to provide the victims with the resources they need. We would also like to commend the operators from nearby counties in Indiana and Kentucky who have come to our aid with operators and equipment. Even as we maintain operations, we have started making notes of things that have worked well for us, and items we need to improve upon. We have also brought in some new members of the team who are getting some real world on-the-job training. Once we get the operation wrapped up, we are going to debrief the team with our lessons and share this information with other groups so they can be better prepared.?
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Kentucky
It is not often that Eastern Kentucky experiences severe storms, but on March 2, several EF3 tornados struck the area, the first seen in the area in many years. According to ARRL Kentucky District 10 Emergency Coordinator and Great Lakes Division Assistant Director John Farler, K4AVX, the Region 4 ARES organization in Eastern Kentucky provided a tremendous amount of storm data during the recent activity to the National Weather Service office in Jackson, Kentucky.
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?The town of West Liberty actually suffered some damage in the smaller tornado outbreak on February 29, but the tornado on March 3 practically destroyed the town,? Farler told the ARRL. All in all, 48 counties in Kentucky suffered damage from the storms, and 22 people died. This part of the state was definitely the hardest hit during this outbreak, including the Laurel County area, which had its own SKYWARN operators feeding information to NWS office Jackson.?
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Farler explained that the area has a repeater system -- the Eastern Kentucky Linked Repeater System -- that serves all of the Big Sandy Valley, the Upper Kentucky River Valley and parts of the Upper Cumberland River Valley. ?This rural mountainous area does not have a high concentration of amateur operators,? he said, ?so the system helps us work together to maximize efforts.?
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SKYWARN operations on the repeater system started at 6 PM March 2, and continued for the next four hours. ?Johnnie Brashear, KY4JLB, in Perry County, served as net control. Hams on the net who were in the areas affected by the storms passed along reports that were in turn passed on to the National Weather Service via NWSChat,? Farler said. ?This information was immediately accessible to the meteorologists.? Farler said that more than 33 radio amateurs in the affected area sent reports of very large hail, high winds, downed trees, blocked roads, funnel clouds and downed buildings.
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?We here at the Jackson National Weather Service want to thank you all for your efforts on Friday,? said Warning Coordination Meteorologist Tony Edwards, KJ4FYM. ?I cannot thank you all enough for the reports. This event serves as a great example of how important Amateur Radio is during catastrophic events. Had it not been for your reports, we would not have known the true severity of the impacts.?
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Ohio
Radio amateurs in the Cincinnati Area participated in SKYWARN nets and helped provide support to the American Red Cross in the aftermath of the March 2 tornado outbreak. At about 1 PM on March 2, the National Weather Service office in Wilmington issued a tornado watch for the Cincinnati region. In less than an hour, hams had set up and were operating a SKYWARN net.
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?The first indication of trouble wasn?t a severe weather report, explained District 4 District Emergency Coordinator Steve Lewis, N8TFD, ?but numerous reports of debris such as plastic foam and plywood falling from the sky. This was soon followed by a string of damage reports. The now-confirmed tornados seem to have been mostly rain-wrapped and were difficult to observe. By 6:30 that evening, it was clear from both Amateur Radio and media reports that a disaster had occurred, and several members of the Queen City Emergency Net -- an Amateur Radio group attached to the Cincinnati-Dayton Region of the American Red Cross) reported to Region headquarters to prepare for probable deployment.?
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Hams with the Queen City Emergency Net conducted a resource net that evening at 8. Lewis said that the tasks assigned to the hams by the Red Cross were mainly related to disaster assessment; Amateur Radio was to be used for coordination, as cell phone service and other public utilities were experiencing outages. ?A group of 14 radio amateurs met at the Red Cross on Saturday morning,? he told the ARRL. ?Two of them staffed the Red Cross radio room for coordination, while the other 12 deployed as six two-person teams into the tornado ?strike zones? in Clermont County, Ohio and to Kenton, Grant and Pendleton Counties in Kentucky. Throughout the day, other hams reported to the chapter to help out.?
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Clermont County RACES/ARES members staffed the radio room at the Clermont County Emergency Management Office. According to Lewis, they were providing updates and receiving information from hams in the field and maintaining situational awareness for hams involved in the effort. Out in the field, they were using the Clermont County RACES/ARES repeater extensively for coordination of relief efforts in Franklin, Tate and Washington Townships, which include the village of Moscow.
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?The most interesting and productive aspect of the day?s operation was a relatively new process for disaster assessment in Clermont County,? Lewis explained. ?In Ohio, County Emergency Management Agencies have traditionally done their own damage assessment, with the Red Cross doing its own. Although Red Cross disaster assessors don?t enter homes, the ?from the street? criteria are very similar between the EMAs and the Red Cross -- and reporting this data twice seemed like some unnecessary work to both parties. To improve this process, Amateur Radio operators who were doing the disaster assessment function were assigned to EMA-managed task forces in Moscow, the Clermont County village with the most damage. Each team had members of Fire/EMS and county engineering and building inspectors, as well as Red Cross volunteers. The team moved through town, determining damage (and possibly talking to clients) only once, instead of numerous times. All
 members of the task force were required to check in and out with the command post, consistent with NIMS accountability practices. This process was very effective, and the radio amateurs working in the area had a particularly strong working relationship with the Washington Township Fire Department.?
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Lewis told the ARRL that after the assessments were complete, hams were able to enter the information from the Red Cross into WebEOC for consumption by Clermont County Emergency Management Agency, ?closing the loop on a great story of cooperation between Amateur Radio and public safety.?
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The ARRL Leter 3/15/2012? http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter/?issue=2012-03-15
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TAGS:affected area, arrl, emergency coordinator, emergency management, national weather service, radio amateurs, reports, storms, tornado, weather service office
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?Posted by:


Mark Conklin, N7XYO
Oklahoma Section Emergency Coordinator
Amateur Radio Emergency Service
918.232.8346
n7xyo at arrl.net
Follow me on Twitter @N7XYO

?
Amateur Radio Emergency Service - Oklahoma
www.ARESOK.org

From n7xyo at yahoo.com  Sat Mar 17 23:42:06 2012
From: n7xyo at yahoo.com (Mark Conklin)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:42:06 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [ARRL-OK] ARES Vest - Meets All ARRL and US DOT Specifications
Message-ID: <1332042126.6103.YahooMailNeo@web160106.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

Every ARES-OK leader and volunteer should invest in ARES Vest - the vest meets All ARRL and US DOT specifications and keep it handy in your "Go Bag".? 
?
Great to wear?at EVERY public service event - it looks sharp,?Highly Visible, and clearly shows that Amateur Radio is serving the public.? Very professional, very sharp.
?
Please?share the info below about the ARES vest?with?any ham?clubs & groups in your area.
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Another source:?? ?www.HamThreads.com
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ARES Vest - Meets All ARRL Specifications
	* ANSI Class 2 Safety Vest. 
	* Lightweight 100% polyester 
	* Solid Front and Mesh Back fabric 
	* Zipper front closure 
	* 2 silver horizontal and vertical reflective stripes, front and back 
	* 1 left chest split pad/pencil pocket 
	* 1 right chest radio/cell phone pocket 
	* 2 outside lower flap pockets 
	* 2 inside lower pockets and one pencil pocket 
	* All outside pockets except the left chest pocket have velcro closure 
	* Color: Flourescent lime green. 
	* 2 CLIP ON STRAPS FOR MICROPHONE OR NAME BADGE 
	* ANSI/ISEA 107-2004 
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Vests will have a 3.5" diameter ARES logo screen printed in black on left chest pocket as shown in the picture and "AMATEUR RADIO EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS" in 2" letters screen printed on the back of the vest in black ink as shown in the picture
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From n7xyo at yahoo.com  Wed Mar 21 21:57:14 2012
From: n7xyo at yahoo.com (Mark Conklin)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:57:14 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [ARRL-OK] --- Amateur Radio on The Glen Beck Show
Message-ID: <1332381434.9932.YahooMailNeo@web160104.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

--- Amateur Radio on The Glen Beck Show

March 14, ARRL Media and Public Relations Manager Alan Pitts W1AGP
tapped NTX SM Walt Mayfield, KE5S00 to represent the ARRL on the Glen
Beck Show webcast which dealt with the Survivalist Community.? Beck,
whose show until recently was syndicated on the FOX network, now hosts
it on GBTV.com where he enjoys a demographic pattern of reaching over
93,000 people per day.? 

The ARRL was well represented by Walt in a group forum setting.? He was
joined by three other gentlemen all of whom are more closely identified
with the Survivalist Community than Amateur Radio.? Beck acknowledged
that Amateur Radio is not routinely a participant in the Survivalist
Community, but that it is an important tool during disasters. During
the interview, ARRL contact information was scrolled across the screen
several times while Walt was on camera. Beck was so impressed with the
information that Walt presented during the 2 hour show, that he
publicly invited Walt back to participate in an hour long program
dedicated exclusively to Amateur Radio!

At the end of the program, Walt cited Amateur Radio's importance by
describing how a Nebraska community, which suffered a total telephone
outage, was benefited by local Amateur Radio operators.? ? Walt
reported that Glen Beck was very respectful, and that he was so
impressed with Amateur Radio that he wants to pursue an Amateur Radio
license himself. 

Kay Craigie, N3KN noted, "Hats off to the SM/NTX for handling this
presentation in a way that reflects well on ham radio and the ARRL."
Congratulations to Walt Mayfield, KE5SOO NTX SM.

A short clip of the program is posted on the ARRL WGD You Tube Channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uXT8zZbRFk&list=PL2FEFE950D987192A&index=1&feature=plpp
video

From n7xyo at yahoo.com  Mon Mar 26 11:37:10 2012
From: n7xyo at yahoo.com (Mark Conklin)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:37:10 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [ARRL-OK] =?utf-8?q?All_RF_=E2=80=93_DIGITAL_emergency_communicat?=
 =?utf-8?q?ions_exercise_May_5=2C_2012?=
Message-ID: <1332776230.34003.YahooMailNeo@web160106.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

There is an all RF ? DIGITAL emergency communications exercise coming up May 5, 2012. This project is a joint interoperable exercise involving the ARRL Sections for both the West Gulf and Delta Divisions.
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ARES-OK will be looking for a few stations to send and receive a couple messages via Winlink 2000 during the emergency communications exercise May 5, 2012.
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First step in the project for Oklahoma is that ARES-OK needs to gather some info from the amateurs in OKLAHOMA (from both ARES-OK and non-ARES registered Radio Amateurs).
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What we need to know is who are currently Winlink 2000 (WL2K) users?
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If you are a Winlink 2000 (WL2K) user then please replay ton7xyo at arrl.net with answers the following few questions:
?
What TNC do your have?
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Is your TNC capable of: 
Pactor I ??
Pactor II ??
Pactor III? ?
?
WINMOR capable station?
?
SSB HF 
20 Meters?
40 Meters?
80 Meters?
?
Do you have a HF Amplifier?? 
What power?
?
Do they have a HF Amplifier?? 
What power?
??
Please provide
Name?
Call Sign?
Which County are you in?
Registered with ARES-OK?
Your role with-in ARES-OK???????? ?(EC, DEC, A-EC RRT, OES, volunteers or other)
Are you a MARS station???????????????? (Are you ARMY Army, Air Force or Navy MARS ?) 
MARS Call Sign???? ??
Your role with-in MARS???????????????????????? 
What?s your internet Email address?
What?s your Winlink mail address?
What?s your Primary contact Phone Number?
?


Mark Conklin, N7XYO
Oklahoma Section Emergency Coordinator
Amateur Radio Emergency Service
918.232.8346
n7xyo at arrl.net
Follow me on Twitter @N7XYO

www.ARESOK.org

From kc5fm at aol.com  Mon Mar 26 20:10:29 2012
From: kc5fm at aol.com (Lloyd Colston)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:10:29 -0500
Subject: [ARRL-OK] Field Day Press Webinar
Message-ID: <CAGeNtEFMm+S7MUUv9J785OVTB6HXiWvf5AHY4TWmp-XurKnfjA@mail.gmail.com>

I'd like to see the Oklahoma section Public information officers
attend this webinar.  If your club does not have a PIO, please appoint
one soon.

Lloyd



https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/278619454


The ARRL Public Relations Committee will be holding a free Webinar for
PIOs, PICs, club officers and anyone else that wants to learn the
easiest and most effective ways to write up a media release for Field
Day and actually get it noticed by the media in your home region.



Learn the tricks of the trade from the people who actually work in
radio, television and print media.  Who better can mentor you than the
actual type of people you want to take notice of your group or club?



PIC and Chairman of the PR Committee Steven Polunski, W5SMP, will host
the event with our band  starring Bill Husted, KQ4YA, on print,  Mark
Kraham, W8CMK, on TV      and Don Carlson, KQ6FM, on the radio.



Can?t make it?  A recording of the event will be posted later on, but
hope you can join us live.  Register now!



Allen Pitts, W1AGP

Media & PR Manager

ARRL - the national association for Amateur Radio

225 Main St.  Newington, CT 06111

From n7xyo at yahoo.com  Tue Mar 27 17:36:15 2012
From: n7xyo at yahoo.com (Mark Conklin)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:36:15 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [ARRL-OK] Bounce Test from www.ARESOK.org
In-Reply-To: <1332867020.8.90602.m9@yahoogroups.com>
References: <1332867020.8.90602.m9@yahoogroups.com>
Message-ID: <1332884175.36430.YahooMailNeo@web160105.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

The Bounce Test is coming, this bounce test is coming!
?
The information registered with ARES-OK is no good to anyone?if it's not up-to-date and accurate.
?
Much like the reminder notice that was sent out?today on the?ARES-OK Yahoo! group (see below), we have started to put a few new tools in our tool bag to help keep the data current.
?
The next tool will be a regular test email sent to every e-mail listed on www.ARESOK.org.? If the e-mail is not current and the e-mail bounces back to our website, then a notice will be sent to your local EC or DEC to contact the person whos' e-mail is bouncing and help them get their listing up-to-date.

Our?IT Manager?A-SEC Roland Stolfa KC5UN will also be working?on a?few new tricks to make it easier to reset your password -?if you have lost or can't remember your password.? 
?
Keep your eye on www.ARESOK.org... there a few more changes coming... changes that will make finding training and resource info much easier.?? Members & Leaders contact info will continue to require a log-in to access.
?
Problems logging in or questions about updating your contact info??? Please contact our?IT-Manager Roland Stolfa KC5UNL via e-mail at ?rstolfa at yahoo.com for any further assistance.
?
73,
?
Mark Conklin, N7XYO
Oklahoma Section Emergency Coordinator
Amateur Radio Emergency Service
918.232.8346
n7xyo at arrl.net
Follow me on Twitter @N7XYO

www.ARESOK.org
?
?
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "aresoklahoma at yahoogroups.com" <aresoklahoma at yahoogroups.com>
To: aresoklahoma at yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 11:50 AM
Subject: [ARES-OK] UP DATE your CONTACT INFO on www.ARESOK.org, 3/27/2012, 12:00 pm

Reminder from: ? aresoklahoma Yahoo! Group 
? 
Title: ? UP DATE your CONTACT INFO on www.ARESOK.org 
? 
Date: ? Tuesday March 27, 2012 
Time: ? 12:00 pm - 12:15 pm  
Repeats: ? This event repeats every month. 
Notes: ? Is your contact information UP-TO-DATE on the www.ARESOK.org website? If NOT, please review the following:

1. Go to www.ARESOK.org and log in.

2. Once logged in ? scroll down near the bottom of the Main Menu page to ?Account Maintenance Links?.

3. Click on ?Edit your contact information?.

4. Make the needed change in the fields provided. 
NOTE: PRIMARY PHONE is the phone number that will reach you most often, as-well-as the PRIMARY e-mail should be the e-mail you check most often (ARES-OK leaders this should be the e-mail you check daily or forwards to your smartphone).

5. Click ?Update? or ?Update and send to ARRL? (ARRL members should click ?Update and send to ARRL?). 


Problems logging in or questions about updating your contact info? Please contact our webmaster Roland Stolfa KC5UNL via e-mail at rstolfa at yahoo.com for any further assistance.
 
? 
Get reminders on your mobile, Yahoo! Messenger, and email.
Edit reminder options Copyright ? 2012 ?Yahoo! Inc.?All Rights Reserved | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy 
__._,_.___To register with ARES-Oklahoma go to www.ARESOK.org  
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From n7xyo at yahoo.com  Thu Mar 29 13:48:59 2012
From: n7xyo at yahoo.com (Mark Conklin)
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:48:59 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [ARRL-OK] GO BAG - MUST HAVE - - ARES-OK Recommended
In-Reply-To: <1332042126.6103.YahooMailNeo@web160106.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
References: <1332042126.6103.YahooMailNeo@web160106.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <1333043339.36918.YahooMailNeo@web160104.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

For every ARES-OK leader and volunteer:
?
A must for your "GO BAG" the ARES Deployment Vest - the vest meets All ARRL and US DOT specifications.??
?
Great way to be?seen at EVERY public service event - it looks sharp,?Highly Visible, and clearly shows that Amateur Radio is serving the public.? Very professional, very sharp.
?
Please?share the info below about the ARES vest?with?any ham?clubs & groups in your area.
?
*******************************************************************
?
Source:?? ?www.HamThreads.com???????????? ARES-OK Recommended
?
http://www.hamthreads.com/products/vests/ares-vest-meets-all-arrl-specifications
?
ARES Vest - Meets All ARRL Specifications
	* ANSI Class 2 Safety Vest. 
	* Lightweight 100% polyester 
	* Solid Front and Mesh Back fabric 
	* Zipper front closure 
	* 2 silver horizontal and vertical reflective stripes, front and back 
	* 1 left chest split pad/pencil pocket 
	* 1 right chest radio/cell phone pocket 
	* 2 outside lower flap pockets 
	* 2 inside lower pockets and one pencil pocket 
	* All outside pockets except the left chest pocket have velcro closure 
	* Color: Flourescent lime green. 
	* 2 CLIP ON STRAPS FOR MICROPHONE OR NAME BADGE 
	* ANSI/ISEA 107-2004 
?
Vests will have a 3.5" diameter ARES logo screen printed in black on left chest pocket as shown in the picture and "AMATEUR RADIO EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS" in 2" letters screen printed on the back of the vest in black ink as shown in the picture
?
The $ 39.95 price includes:
	* Free Shipping when you order 2 or more items from HamThreads
	* No up charge for large sizes (all sizes same price)
	* Most orders ship within 2 weeks
	* http://www.hamthreads.com/products/vests/ares-vest-meets-all-arrl-specifications 
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