[Ccarc] Indiana Section Newsletter

Wed Dec 26 09:26:15 EST 2007

ndiana Section News for November 2007

My apologies for getting this edition of the Indiana Section News out
so late. Several reports were very late getting to me, and the holiday
season also caused a delay. My thanks to all those who got their
reports to me by the 10th of the month. - - THANK YOU!

A very Merry Christmas to everyone, and a Happy and Prosperous New
Year! I often use excerpts from Tony's monthly SEC Report to fill out
the Indiana Section News. Many of you don't ever see his report in
total. So, for a change here it is:

SEC Report for November 2007 Indiana

NUMBER OF ARES MEMBERS (REPORTED): 709

MEMBERSHIP CHANGE (REPORTED): 13

NUMBER OF DEC/EC REPORTS RECEIVED: 26

DEC's REPORTING: N9HM Zone 03,

EC's REPORTING: K9RFZ Allen County, KB9TCN Brown County, 

N9PMW Cass County, N9TV Clark County, N9VXV Dekalb County, 

N9GQA Delaware County, KB9BBI Elkhart County, KC9DBM Floyd 

County, W9XTZ Greene County, N9MOX Hancock County, WA9DAN

Jay County, N9UNM Jefferson County, N9SIU Johnson County, KC9BHJ
Madison County, K9KRT Marshall County, KB9RVB Monroe County, N9JPX
Morgan County, WB9FHP Orange County, WD9BKA Owen County, WA9TSQ Porter
County, W9DRB Spencer County, KB9OLZ Starke County, WB9EFH Vanderburgh
County, N9YNF Vigo County, WB9UNL Whitley County.

NUMBER OF LOCAL EMERGENCY NETS ACTIVE: 22

NUMBER OF NETS WITH NTS LIAISON: 13

TOTAL NUMBER OF NET SESSIONS, DRILLS/TESTS THIS MONTH: 77

TOTAL PERSON-HOURS REPORTED: 474.83

PUBLIC SERVICE EVENTS REPORTED:40

TOTAL PERSON-HOURS REPORTED: 158.5

EMERGENCY NETS REPORTED: 0

TOTAL PERSON-HOURS REPORTED: 0

TOTAL NUMBER OF ARES OPERATIONS THIS MONTH: 117

TOTAL PERSON-HOURS REPORTED: 633.33

IN ARES SECTION NET 11/25/07 1200UTC 9 QNI 2 Traffic 10 Minutes

COMMENTS:

I want to welcome a new EC for Allen Co. Joseph Lawrence N9RFZ. I also
want to thank everyone for your monthly reports we had very good
representation state wide this month.

Ft Wayne was good this year it was great meeting everyone. This month
at Ft Wayne I started a membership drive for ARES. I am asking everyone
to sign up at least one new ARES Member. We are also looking for more
appointees many counties need EC and I am looking for some DEC too. So
if you know of anyone interested in some position please contact me.

Some clubs are looking for new members and are looking for current
members to be officers for 2008. Please offer your time and talent to
your club. Being a club officer is very rewarding in many ways and new
members are always great.

There were many comments made during Ft Wayne about training amateur
radio operators for emergency communication. It was agreed that hams
need better training and should pursue more training. It was what we've
been hearing about, the need to increased training for radio amateurs
involved in providing emergency communications. If you wait until the
next disaster, it will be too late for you to learn the skills you need
to be effective. We have to be on the scene with trained

operators who have practiced so much that the skills they need during
the emergency are second nature.

OTHER COMMENTS:

N9FEB Marion Co: Announcements were made about ARES on 4 

of the Marion County ARES Nets:  Hams were out checking the Outdoor
Warning Sirens each Friday at they are tested weekly. On Sun, Nov 11th,
I checked into the State RACES HF Net; On Mon, Nov 12th, I attended an
Indianapolis Air Show Coordinators Appreciation Dinner. On Tues, Nov
20th, I attended a Mini Marathon Medical Meeting. On Mon, Nov 26th, I
attended an Indianapolis Repeater Association Meeting. On Tues, Nov
27th, I attended the ADA Tour-de-Cure Coordination Meeting.

WB9EFH Vanderburgh Co: The monthly net was not held this month because
we held our quarterly ARES/RACES meeting. We met at the Vanderburgh
County EMA. During our meeting we discussed the 2007 SET, what went
well, where we can make improvements and additional training and
drills. In addition we discussed ways to grow our members. We also had
discussions with the Director regarding amateur communications, how to
improve our area of coverage and how we can better serve the community
and Region 10.

N9CQ Hendricks Co: SET for Hendricks Co. held Nov. 10, 2007. Start Time
@ 9:00 am to 11:30 am. Post SET meeting from 11:30 to 12:30 with Bob
Burns W9RXR (RACES) Dave Warren EMA Dir. Michael Gilmore SAR HC, &amp;
John Farmer N9CQ (EC). Total of 13 ARES/RACES Check-ins with 8 of 13
taking and active part. 6 SAR members, 2 EMA Officials, Police Chief of
Lizton, Eric Mohr participated in the exercise.

N9GQA Delaware Co: General Upgrade class was taught throughout the
month of November on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 7PM to 9PM. A
total of 6 sessions were held with an average attendance of 5 plus two
instructors. An ARES presentation was made at the Muncie Area Amateur
Radio Club meeting for the recruitment of ARES members and local
participation in the Indiana Traffic Net on 3.910 MHz. An informative
presentation on traffic handling procedures was taught as part of the
presentation by Josh, N9GQA.

KB90LZ Starke Co: 11/5 P.C. C.E.R.T. training 2 hrs. 11/10 Weather
class 8am to 11 am., 11/11 DHS  Drill county wide all PD, FD, EMS, EMA,
ARES/RACES, EOC mobile command.1pm to 2pm, 11/15 SCARC meeting 7pm to
9pm,11/6,13,27  Tech. class 6pm to 9pm. All for this month have a good
X-Mas.

Tony Langer N9AL

Indiana Section Emergency Coordinator

>From Joe Gilkey N9ME: The Advanced Weather Spotter's Guide link was
typed incorrectly last month. The correct Link is:

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/brochures/adv_spotters.pdf

Thanks for the "heads up" Joe.

ALL APPOINTEES: Remember that your annual reports are due by January
31, 2008. The forms are available on the League's website. If you don't
have Internet access, please contact Tony, or me, and we can mail them
to you.

The following Net Managers reported their activity during November to
John Kinley KC9BHJ, Indiana Section VHF/UHF Net Manager: KC9BHJ, N9MZY,
KB9UGR, KB9JLF, KE9WI, N9XVB, KF9EX, WB9RVN, NA9L, WD9BKA, WB9NCE,
KB9RFO, W3ML, W9THD, W9AU, and KA9QWC. If your local Net Manager's
callsign does not appear in this list, then no report was received by
KC9BHJ. Reports can be e-mailed to him at kc9bhj at arrl.net..

November Section Net Activity:

NET    FREQ    DAILY TIMES (UTC)      QNI   QTC   QTR   SESS

ITN   3910KHz   1230/2030            2829   223   1442     60

QIN   3535 KHz   1330/0000            117    61   677     52

ARES 3910 KHz 4TH SUN/MO @ 1200Z       9      2    10    1

HOOSIER VHF NETS 16 REPORTING        902     12   2213    79

HOOSIER DIGITAL NETS (2)               9      9    - -   30

November ORS Traffic Reports: K9PUI 262, K9GBR 199, NA9L 87, KA9QWC 12,
N0PF 11, W9ILF 10 AB9AA 9, N9HM 9, W9AL 5, W9PC 5.

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