Requests for assistance:
April 20,2009 Boston Marathon
Have ELEVEN operators leaving and travelling to Boston Area on a Bus
provided by First Student and "piloted" by Bob, K1AX. This group will
receive coordinating instructions in the next 10 days.
Aug 8, 2009 Multiple Sclerosis Foundation Bikeathon.
NEED approximately 4 operators and a net control station. The area
of operations is Durham, Portsmouth, Eliot, Me, and Dover. This would
be a great opportunity to utilize the PCARC 440 repeater as it covers
the entire area.
Sept. 18-19 Reach The Beach Relay
This is the Annual NHARES communications event. Last year we
supported three rest stops, this year we are doubling that commitment.
If you are interested in assisting, Dave Colter needs your shirt/jacket
size by April 15.
Pending Issues:
Monthly meeting did not occur in March. We were unable to come to an
agreeable meeting location in time for the meeting to be scheduled.
Pete, W1CBT has scheduled a meeting for April 15 at the PCARC
clubhouse. A email containing the itinerary for that meetingis being
worked on now.
My ARRL membership lapsed and as such my ability to serve as EC was
called to the front.( The ARRL requires all ARES appointments from EC
and above to be current members). As of Friday, my membership dues
were in transit to CT.
Communications Infrastructure updates:
6M: There is a new 6M repeater coming online in the near
future. Anyone with a VX7 should be able to use it without
difficulty. There are a few pieces of equipment needed to get this
repeater operational, if any one of you has any of these items sitting
in your shack unused, drop me a line:
Diplexer (commonly erroneously referred to as a duplexer)1.3-150MHz one
one port and 300-540MHz on the other.
Triplexer, HF+6 one one port, 100-300MHz on the second, and 320-500 MHz
on the third.
Winlink: We have received the software and password to get
W1ROC-10 on the air from Steve, KB8MAN's home. Scheduling has been the
only set back to getting this fully operational. Frequency to be used:
145.010. This endeavor is being undertaken to facilitateWinlink usage
by ARES during an emergency activation.
Local FULL serviceBBS: Rick, N1ZXZ has begun development of a
local full service BBS. It appears to be off air currently. Rick has
received a 50W radio from K1JCJ to get this going. I will be
programming the radio in the next few weeks. Frequency to be used:
145.010. This endeavor is being undertaken to facilitate Outpost
Software usage by ARES during an emergency activation.
2M: The 145.370 ARES repeater is currently off air. I will
be working on getting it back on the air IN SEABROOK with remote
receive site so that a duplexer is not needed. It will NOT be
deployable in this configuration.
Jason Janvrin,WA1NH
Emergency Coordinator
East Rockingham ARES
