Port City Amateur Radio Club - Portsmouth NH

Boston Marathon Ham Radio Volunteers Needed

The Boston Marathon is scheduled for Monday, April 20, 2009. Please visit http://marc.mmra.org/marc/index.html if you would like to volunteer as a ham radio operator. Be sure and indicate in the "special requests" field that you are a member of the Port City Amateur Radio Club (New Hampshire) and want to be assigned with them. If you have any questions, please contact Jason, WA1NH, at wa1nh@arrl.net or Deuce, N1YI, at n1yi@arrl.net.

Exeter Holiday Parade - 6 Dec 08 - Help Needed

We are need of a few ham radio operators to provide communications during the Exeter Holiday Parade on the evening of December 6, 2008. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Pete, W1CBT, or Chris, K1PRD. All volunteers should dress for freezing conditions. I've been a spectator at several of the Exeter holiday parades and the weather can be brutally cold.  - Chris  K1PRD

TOUR DE CURE - Sunday May 4th, 2008

Tour de Cure is a series of fund-raising cycling events held in 40 states nationwide to benefit the American Diabetes Association.

The Tour is a ride, not a race, with routes designed for everyone from the occasional rider to the experienced cyclist. Whether participants ride 10 miles or 100 miles*, they will travel a route supported from start to finish with rest stops, food to fuel the journey and fans to cheer them on!

Last year, more than 32,000 cyclists in 78 Tour events raised nearly $13 million to support the mission of the ADA: to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.

Download the Maps and Directions Here.

Any Further Information Email Dale N0QKN@MSN.COM

Download 25mi_trip_tik.doc

Download 50mi_trip_tik.doc

Download 75mi_trip_tik.doc

Download 100mi_trip_tik.doc

Download Rest_Stop_Handbook_08.doc

27th Annual Prouty Bike Ride and Walk

It is that time. The 27th Annual Prouty Bike 
Ride and Walk Challenge is  Saturday, July 12,
2008. For many years now, local ham
radio operators have  been provided heath and 
safety communications for this fund raiser.
It provides funds for the Friends of the 
Norris Cotton Cancer Center at DHMC in  
Lebanon. The funds are used to support cancer
research  and to help with cancer treatments.

Cycle for Shelter : Help Needed

The event will take place on July 22, 2007. The
start/finish is at the Northern Essex Communiy College
in Haverhill, MA. off of route 110.
The planned start time is 7:00 am for the 100 mile
with staggard starts for for the 62 and 27 mile
courses...

Our own AB1CL Appointed NHSEC

To all New Hampshire ARES Members:

I am happy to announce that Tom Richardson, AB1CL, has been appointed as New Hampshire Section Emergency Coordinator (SEC). Tom brings to the position a long professional background in emergency services, having spent 30 years as a Fire Fighter and a Fire Captain. He has also served as an advisor to the UNH Search and Rescue Team. Over the past 6 years, he has served in various positions, including President, with the Port City Amateur Radio club. He has participated in numerous Seabrook nuclear power plant emergency communications drills. He is currently serving as New Hampshire section Affiliated Club Coordinator...

ARRL Statement on Red Cross Background Checks

ARRL Statement on Red Cross Background Checks
October 24, 2006

The American Red Cross has recently notified their local chapters that their volunteers and staff members must submit to a criminal background check. There are some sound reasons as to why these criminal background checks were required. The Red Cross didn’t want the possibility of having a person with a history of violent crime representing them while assisting disaster victims...

Link to ARRL article

Hampton Seafood Fest '06

The Hampton Area Chamber of Commerce has once again asked us for help with communications at the numerous parking lots during the Seafood Festival Sept. 9th and 10th. Duties include directing traffic into the parking lots, answering numerous questions, herding people to bus stops, (and some years pet sitting, automobile trouble shooting, and other ridiculous things!) If you have worked the Red Hook Brewery 5K race, then you know the drill...

Communication a concern in nuke plant drill

This Portsmouth Herald article expresses concerns similar to the concerns many of us have. Many of our members might like to read it. It goes along with my observation that there was a 23 minute time span between the Governor declaring a state of emergency and that fact being announced in the Incident Field Office. - Tom, AB1CL.

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Towns Participating in Seabrook Excercise Listed

If you have not yet specified a town where you would like to be posted, please do so by sending an email to eocvolunteer@w1roc.org. You may also want to print this out and carry along with you, as some hams have been asked in the past about who had sent them to a particular EOC.

-From NH BEM:

The following is a list of towns playing next week in the drill that we will need ARES staffing for. The only one supposedly not playing is Exeter, but that still needs to be confirmed. Hope this helps! Please let me know who to expect at each facility. Thanks! Kim

Brentwood		eves
East Kingston		eves
Exeter		?? day
Greenland		days
Hampton		days
Hampton Falls		days
Kensington		eves
Kingston		days
New Castle		days
Newfields		eves
Newton		eves
No Hampton		days
Portsmouth		days
Rye		days
Seabrook		days
So Hampton		eves
Stratham		eves
Newmarket		eves
IFO Newington		BOTH
EOC (Concord)		days

Kimberly A. Kimball
New Hampshire Department of Safety
Bureau of Emergency Management Communications