AUGUST 28th
The Greenville-Spartanburg, SC National Weather Service office will hold a weather radar class at our regular meeting on August 28th at 7pm. For more information please contact: Mike Huffstetler, KG4AWO at [email protected] . 

SEPTEMBER 4th and 6th

We will be helping with the United Ways Day of Caring again this year. The event will be held on September 4th and 6th. We would welcome and need any amateur radio operator that would like to help with this project. For more information please contact Gene Marshall, KG4IMC at [email protected] .

  8/5/03

                 KG4IMC - Gene

  8/5/03

Click on the Icon to your 
left or for the PDF click below.

http://www.emergencyemail.org/hurricane2003.pdf

I came across this information on the internet and thought some of you might be interested in it. This information came from the lake County ARES/RACES web page. http://www.races.org/ 

73,s Mike, KG4AWO

HOW TO ESTIMATE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH

Measured or Estimated

One way to get an idea of wind speed is to estimate the average length of a downed branch or limb.

Example: You witness a 25 foot branch or limb down on your property, however, most of the other branches are just 10 to 12 feet. Chances are the 25 foot branch was weak and just fell in the wind. Take the 12 footers as your average. Add the length to 39 and you have the estimated wind, 51 MPH. Report 50 MPH

Example: You have had strong thunderstorm winds and many branches and limbs are down. Several limbs of 30 foot length are observed along with an array of 20 foot sections. Since the 20 footers seem to dominate, take the 20 and add to 39. 

59 MPH. Report 60 MPH

One other example: You witness several trees uprooted along with just as many trees broken off at the bottom. Since most of these trees are 50 feet or more in length, winds were likely 90 MPH+. This is how you should report it. There is no reference to report a higher wind unless you have previously experienced winds in excess of 100 MPH and are able to judge this. IF YOU WATCHED THIS HAPPEN, YOU HAD NO BUSINESS BEING OUT OF THE BASEMENT TO OBSERVE IT. Just a safety tip.                    

I gave the URL below to some members of the Stanly Co ARC and I would like
the rest of you and members of CSN to read the article by ZS1AN titled "Why
we should retain a Morse code requirement for the unrestricted amateur" that
appeared in the Combo Issue 5/6, 2003 of The Keynote published by FISTS CW
Club. The address is:

http://www.qsl.net/zs1an/

                                                  73, Carl W4EAT
                                                   [email protected]

POSTED 8/25/03

NORTH CAROLINA: SM, John Covington, W4CC - SEC: WA4MOK. STM: K4HA. TC: K4ITL.
BM: KD4YTU. PIC: KN4AQ. OOC: W4ZRA. SGL: AB4W. ACC: N4JCK.

Congratulations is in order for our Technical Coordinator, Danny Hampton,
K4ITL of Raleigh. Danny is the recipient of the 2002 ARRL Technical Service
Award, so designated by the ARRL Board of Directors during the July meeting.

His technical service has been outstanding. Danny has served as ARRL Technical
Coordinator under two different Section Managers in the North Carolina
Section. Danny's technical expertise has served us well during disasters,
including locating backup repeater resources on short notice during the
aftermath of Hurricane Floyd (1999). His advice in resolving RFI problems
between repeaters and commercial services, and other technical matters, have
been extremely valuable to the Section.

Danny has provided equipment and countless hours of his time to creating and
maintaining Amateur Radio repeater networks in the state of North Carolina
during the last thirty years. This is important to ARES and NTS because
repeaters provide a substantial portion of our disaster and public service
communications capability.

Danny set up a pair of repeaters in the Raleigh area in the 1970s as a
personal project. The repeaters became very popular and the Piedmont Coastal
Repeater Network was formed to support this network. Today PCRN consists of
over 30 independently-owned repeaters linked together using a linking system
designed by Danny. His knowledge of the broadcast and two-way radio industry
has helped others setting up repeaters also. As a result we have excellent
coverage even in rural areas.

Danny is also the North Carolina Director of the SouthEastern Repeater
Association, and has been involved in the Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance 
communications project.

I'm pleased that someone in our section has won this prestigious national
award. Those of you that know him know this award is well-deserved.

I am also very pleased with the Simulated Emergency Test results from last
year. SET will be upon us again very soon. Contact your local EC and find out
how you can be involved. We do well in the SET because we have great
participation, and we do a good job of reporting our results.

During the July meeting, the ARRL Board also decided to adopt some
recommendations of the Volunteer Resources Committee which directly affect the
Field Organization. I have been reviewing these recommendations and will be
having a lot to say in the near future about how North Carolina should meet
the new expectations of the Board.

Hamfests: I'll be at Shelby on Saturday and Sunday, August 30-31. Hope to see
many of you there. The ARRL Forum is at 10 AM Saturday. There will be a lunch
meeting of the National Traffic System at noon Saturday at Jackson's
Cafeteria. Show up before noon to eat since the meeting itself starts at noon.
When I'm not attending meetings, I should be at the ARRL booth.

July Traffic: W4EAT 2589 (BPL), K4RLD 276, K4IWW 214, W3HL 107, AA4YW 107, WA4OBR 94, WD4LSS 92, KE4JHJ 87, AD4XV 56, W4FAL 47, KG4OQA 43, KE4AHC 36, N4TAB 33, W4EHF 23, N4FHM 22, W4LN 20, W4CC 14, N4NTO 14, W4IRE 10, KB8VCZ 5, WA2EDN 4.

July PSHR: N4TAB 133, W4EAT 120, K4IWW 120, K4RLD 110, KE4JHJ 110, WD4LSS 106, KG4OQA 100, W4CC 94, W4FAL 85, AA4YW 80.

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ARRL North Carolina Section
Section Manager: John M. C Covington, W4CC
[email protected]

8/25/03