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

Fri Jun 22 06:34:39 EDT 2012

Supposed to be at the site to start setting up Friday, June 22 at about
noon. I plan to be there, as does Danny

Ken KO4OM

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Steve Allen <royalrangers1 at comcast.net>wrote:

> 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.
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> Thanks
> 73, Steve Allen  WD4JIX
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nrv-hams-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:nrv-hams-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of roger bell
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 10:18 PM
> To: NRV-hams grp list via qth.net
> Subject: [nrv-hams] FIELD DAY 2012 - News Release published in NRV NEW -
> Danny Wylam highly favored!
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> Wed., June 20, 2012
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> Folks,
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> 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.
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> http://nrvnews.com/area/pulaski/30335-0623-public-demo-of-emergency-communic
> ations-.html
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> Best Regards,
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> Roger Bell, V. P. - New River Valley Amateur Radio Club
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> 06/23: Public Demo of Emergency Communications
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>                                                Wednesday, June 20, 2012
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>                                                By NRVNews
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>                                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.
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> 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.
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>  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.
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> 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.
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>  "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."
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>  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.
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>  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.
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>  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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