[nrv-hams] FIELD DAY 2012 - News Release published in NRV NEW - Danny Wylam highly favored!

[Steve Allen]

I am planning to be at Field day.  Can you give me some times when you will
be setting up the antennas and equipment.  Do you need any items, just let
me know. 

Thanks
73, Steve Allen  WD4JIX

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Subject: [nrv-hams] FIELD DAY 2012 - News Release published in NRV NEW -
Danny Wylam highly favored!


Wed., June 20, 2012



Folks,



Noted
 below is the page link to the NRV News that published our club's news 
release for Field Day 2012 to be held Fri., June 22 through Sun., June 
24.   Danny Wylam, our club secretary, is pictured "awake at the rig" 
during field day 2010.   I have also posted the news release below.



http://nrvnews.com/area/pulaski/30335-0623-public-demo-of-emergency-communic
ations-.html



Best Regards,

Roger Bell, V. P. - New River Valley Amateur Radio Club

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06/23: Public Demo of Emergency Communications 				

				
								
						
					
								

							
	

						Wednesday, June 20, 2012
04:54					
							
							
	

						By NRVNews

								
									

						
						
				Despite
 the Internet, cell phones, email and modern communications, every year 
whole regions find themselves in the dark. Tornadoes, fires, storms, 
ice, major equipment failures, and even the occasional cutting of fiber 
optic cables leave people without the means to communicate. In these 
cases, the one consistent service that has never failed has been Amateur
 Radio. 

These radio operators, often called "hams" provide backup communications
 for everything from the American Red Cross to FEMA and even for the 
International Space Station. "Ham's" from Blacksburg, Christiansburg, 
Dublin, Pulaski, Pearisburg, and Floyd, will join with thousands of 
other Amateur Radio operators showing their emergency capabilities this 
weekend. 



 Over the past year, the news has been full of reports 
of ham radio operators providing critical communications during 
unexpected emergencies in towns across America including the California 
wildfires, winter storms, tornadoes and other events world-wide. When 
trouble is brewing, Amateur Radio's people are often the first to 
provide rescuers with critical information and communications. On the 
weekend of June 23-24, the public will have a chance to meet and talk 
with community's ham radio operators and see for themselves what the 
Amateur Radio Service is about as hams across the USA will be holding 
public demonstrations of emergency communications abilities. 



 
This annual event, called "Field Day" is the climax of the week long 
"Amateur Radio Week" sponsored by the ARRL, the national association for
 Amateur Radio. Using only emergency power supplies, ham operators will 
construct emergency stations in parks, shopping malls, schools and 
backyards around the country. Their slogan, "When All Else Fails, Ham 
Radio Works" is more than just words to the hams as they prove they can 
send messages in many forms without the use of phone systems, internet 
or any other infrastructure that can be compromised in a crisis. More 
than 35,000 amateur radio operators across the country participated in 
last year's event.



 "The fastest way to turn a crisis into a 
total disaster is to lose communications," said Allen Pitts of the ARRL.
 "From the earthquake and tsunami in Japan to tornadoes in Missouri, ham
 radio provided the most reliable communication networks in the first 
critical hours of the events. Because ham radios are not dependent on 
the Internet, cell towers or other infrastructure, they work when 
nothing else is available. We need nothing between us but air." 




 In the New River Valley area on Saturday, June 23 at 9:00 AM through 
6:00 PM, .the New River Valley Amateur Radio Club will be demonstrating 
Amateur Radio at the Randolph Park - Picnic Shelter area in Dublin, VA.  
 From I-81 South, take the Dublin Exit 98, proceed to the first 
stoplight, take a left at McDonalds and proceed 1/2 mile to the entrance
 of Randolph Park. They invite the public to come and see ham radio's 
new capabilities and learn how to get their own FCC radio license before
 the next disaster strikes. 



 Amateur Radio is growing in the US.
 There are now over 700,000 Amateur Radio licensees in the US, and more 
than 2.5 million around the world. Through the ARRL's Amateur Radio 
Emergency Services program, ham volunteers provide both emergency 
communications for thousands of state and local emergency response 
agencies and non-emergency community services too, all for free. 




 To learn more about Amateur Radio, go to www.emergency-radio.org. The 
public is most cordially invited to come, meet and talk with the hams. 
See what modern Amateur Radio can do. They can even help you get on the 
air!



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