In The Beginning
In 1991 the Driven Elements
Amateur Radio Group held there first fieldday event at Dacus lake. It
was a fun event for all involved, even though Gregg Boss (WA8VFU now
KI5XV) had a Kenwood 440 fried. We managed to work a lot of contacts,
but sense this was our first year to work fieldday we decided not to
turn in our contacts to the ARRL. If we had done so we would have
finished in the top 10 running 1-A Arkansas.
Once upon a Bus
The Driven Elements was donated a school bus by the then disbanded
Arkansas Tennessee Radio Amateurs Club (ATRA) in 1992. The Marion School
Distract had donated this bus to them to use as a mobile command center.
ATRA never managed to do any work to the bus before disbanding. The bus
was turned over to Carl Richardson (KB5FJX) by Don Currie (N5MNP) the
last acting emergency coordinator of ATRA. In 1992 Carl along with John
Ed Farris (N5VJZ), Phillip Farris (KA5YDY now AB5BC), Jeff Crum
(KB5SFV), Terry Roberts(KA5QMC) and a number of other local Hams. The
bus was gutted and we installed Radio work stations, storage areas and a
combination sleep/meeting area. The bus was painted and made ready to
use for Emergencies services where ARES/RACES would be needed. We never
have used this bus, and have never been able to gain support from the
local or County government to cover us with insurance should it be
needed. It has been parked ever sense and now needs a lot of mechanical
work done on it to make it useable again. (Oh well we tryed as hard as
we could and did a lot of work for not).
Presidents and Vice Presidents for the first three years of the
DEARG:
Year One:1991
Carl Richardson: President
John Ed Farris: Vice President
Year Two:1992
Carl Richardson: President
John Ed Farris: Vice President
Year Three:1993
John Ed Farris: President
Carl Richardson: Vice President
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