Monthly Section News Summaries
Monthly Summary for October 2009
Delaware Section Monthly Summary
Thanksgiving
As we wind down the year here it is Thanksgiving time again. We in the
Delaware Section have much to be thankful for. This year we were blessed with
having very little in the way of nasty weather to deal with, in fact the
entire eastern seaboard and gulf coast were spared significant hurricane
activity this season.
Recently in October and November we did encounter back to back north-eastern
storms that did cause some concern for members living close to the ocean and
low lying areas along the Delaware coast.
The last storm had the governor declare a state of emergency in Kent and
Sussex Counties and Amateur Radio did play a role as eyes and ears for local
emergency management.
Bill Duveneck KB3KYH provided me with the following report:
Frank,
Here is the list of Amateurs who participated in the Nov 12 ARES Storm Net.
We were operational for twenty-two hours straight. Some of our ARES members
handled several hours at a stretch as NCS and others worked multiple shifts.
In all, I was very proud of our team. They stepped up and provided the NCS,
the structure, as well as the information reporting required of us by the
EOC. In all, 43 Amateur stations including 29 Sussex County ARES members
supported the mission.
Call sign Roll Comments
KB3HEV Sussex County EOC Multiple operators not included in this report
W3TRY Multiple, long NCS shifts; Reports ARES Member
K3JL Reports
W3WRL Reports ARES Member
W3DEL Reports ARES Member
W3DR Served as NCS; Reports ARES Member
KF3BT Reports ARES Member
K3JP Reports ARES Member
KB3KYH Multiple NCS shifts; Reports ARES Member
N3ROF Reports
W3GNQ Reports ARES Member
KC2OCC Reports ARES Member
KB3QIH Served as NCS; Reports ARES Member
KB3QLK Reports ARES Member; Wicomico County
N3IOD Multiple NCS shifts; Reports ARES Member
K3LRH Multiple NCS shifts; Reports ARES Member
N3PG Reports Kent County
WG3J Reports Wicomico County
KB3CGL Reports
W3JCT Reports Wicomico ARES/RACES
W3FIS Reports ARES Member
N3NXR Reports ARES Member
W3MLK Reports ARES Member
N3NKK Reports Sussex RACES
K3GI Reports
N3DTG Reports ARES Member
KW3Z Multiple NCS shifts; Reports ARES Member
W3IOU Reports ARES Member
W3TL Served as NCS; Reports ARES Member
N3WYN Reports ARES Member
K1RY Reports ARES Member
W4ALT Reports ARES Member; direct and via ECHOLink
W8RKG Reports ARES Member
N3IBE Reports ARES Member
KF3BB Reports Bethany Beach Town Hall/N3NE ARES Member
N3BXH Reports Wicomico County
KB3IWV Reports
W3BEZ Reports
W3LF Reports ARES Member
N3WYJ Reports
KB3NRV Reports Sussex RACES (?)
WA3GS Reports ARES Member
KB3MJ Reports; provided ECHOLink ARES Member
I am also thankful for John Scoggins W3JKS for providing updates and
communications with Dennis Dura K2DCD at ARRL Headquarters during the
declared state of emergency while I was out of the Delaware section.
Also weather related upcoming Skywarn Recognition Day will be observed on
December 5, 2009 for more info: http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mtr/hamradio/
Not weather related please mark your calendar:
14th Annual Delaware QSO Party
Date: February 6 and 7, 2010
Contest Period: 1700Z Saturday, February 6 until 2359Z Sunday, February 7.
Contest rules at http://fsarc.org/DEQSO.html
A reminder to send your updated information for the Delaware Section ARES /
RACES database to: http://www.de-arrl.org/ to keep our records up to date.
Thank you,
Frank Filipkowski AD3M
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