[NevadaARES] Southern NV ARES District Report - Feb. 2003

Fri, 7 Mar 2003 20:19:24 -0800 (PST)

Southern NV ARES DEC Report, DEC, Glenn KB7REO

I spent some time this past month looking into
possibly finding an EC for Esmeralda County. It may be
difficult to find an EC for the county with only one
ARRL member in the area.

I spoke with Joe N7JEH, NV Section Net Manager, in
Elko, NV on Echolink this past month. I would like our
Section to look into trying Echolink as a means to
link together Tonopah, Elko, Reno and Las Vegas.  The
Echolink node owner in Elko has the capability to
conference all 4 nodes.  I am hopeful that the Reno
area will have an Echolink repeater available soon. 

This coming March, John K6YDW and I will be meeting
with the new Las Vegas NWS Warning Coordination
Meteorologist.  We will be discussing the re-location
of the SKYWARN amateur radio station within the office
and the program in general. John K6YDW has accepted
the position of Clark County Amateur Radio SKYWARN
Coordinator.

So. Nye County ARES Report by EC, Dick AC7EL

We got registration plates for our communications
trailer.  Work is underway to convert it.  We got a
club amateur radio call KD7UHO for our ARES group.  We
plan to use the callsign for any packet radio we
install in the trailer.

Clark County ARES Report by EC, Charlie AA5QJ

ARES/RACES meeting was held Sat Feb 15th with 30
members attending. One of the major issues discussed
was the acquisition of a Communications Trailer.
Minutes are posted at www.qsl.net/ccnvares/

ARRL Emergency Communications Course Level I Study
Group completed. 
Congratulations to Paul Casteel KD7TEW, John Clement
N7LWG, Barry Ducote KD7TFQ, Bob Herrell NK7I, JD Jones
N7WL, Ken Mulkey W0VPH, Bob Nelson WA3PAD, John Rees
KD7QYB and Julian Rhinehart W7JFR for successfully
passing the Level I Certification Exam on Mar 1st. Bob
Herrell NK7I also passed the Level II exam! 

If you complete any emcomm or related training on your
own, please notify Charlie Kunz AA5QJ at 334-1196 or
[email protected] so that you may be recognized and the
ARES/RACES database updated. 

If you would like additional information on training,
please contact Vern K0EGA, AEC Training, via email or
by phone at 641-5963.

Charlie Kunz AA5QJ, EC, Dan Starr AA7I, AEC RACES and
Jan Welsh NK7N attended the Clark County Local
Emergency Planning Committee meeting.

Charlie Kunz AA5QJ EC participated in the planning
meeting for the Determined Promise national exercise
to be conducted by the Dept of Defense Aug 18-29.
ARES/RACES will be tasked during the period Aug 20-21
0800-0800. 

Charlie Kunz AA5QJ, EC and Bill Marple AA7ZW, AEC Las
Vegas, met with the City of Las Vegas Emergency
Manager Tim McAndrew to finalize the equipment list
for the Las Vegas Fire Rescue EOC amateur radio
station and antenna installations.

John Neeley K6YDW, Clark County Amateur Radio SKYWARN
Coordinator, reported an informal Level 3 SKYWARN net
on 2-25-03 due to expected rainfall in the area.  8
stations checked in with observations.

A survey of all ARES/RACES members is being taken to
update our database with current addresses, phones,
emails, availability, response time and preferences
for Rapid Response and/or Mutual Assistance Teams. If
you have not been contacted, please notify Charlie
Kunz AA5QJ at 334-1196 or [email protected]. 

Upcoming Public Service Events and coordinators:

1.Seed 9 Rally Sprint road race on Mar 29th near
Goodsprings from 8 am to 4 pm Jamie N3TOY 233-2479

2. Race for the Cure on May 3rd in downtown Las Vegas
with an estimated 15,000 runners - Tom KE4ULL 368-6763

3. ADA Tour de Cure bike ride on May 17th in Green
Valley area - Howard K3HM 256-3662

The ARES/RACES Emergency Communications Center at the
Clark County Government Center has been assigned the
club call K7CCN.

Laughlin/Searchlight ARES Report by EC John N7CQQ

Pat, Nk7C and I have been working on the 160 contest
that we participated in last weekend.  We packed up
and drove to GoldField, Nevada, about 4 hours north of
Las Vegas.  We left on Thursday, Feb 20 and spent the
rest of the day driving and setting up.  Final
preparations were completed just minutes before the
contest started.  We operated 160 meters Friday and
Saturday
night and amassed more than 500 contacts.

This included contacts to Cape Verde and Kirabati.  We
used a 1/4 wave vertical with 60 - 135 foot radials. 
For receiving we used four 550-foot beverage antennas.
 The beverage antennas reduced the noise received by
the vertical a great deal. 

Goes to show that two competent hams can setup a
communication facility and operate for four days and
come home to write about it.

Lincoln County ARES Report by EC, Lee K7NKH

Submitted a proposal to the Sheriff for installing
amateur radio equipment at 4 sites for a possible EOC
at each of the 4 towns (Alamo, Panaca, Caliente and
Pioche)

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Southern NV ARES DEC
Pager/Cellular 498-4743
Spotter HN-3
http://www.cvrc.net/ares
http://www.qsl.net/lvr-skywarn

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