H1N1 Flu and General Flu

H1N1 -- At risk groups are:

• Small children and
• Young adults up to age 35-40

Have a Flu Buddy.

• Make arrangements with family or friends to call them if you are too sick to care for yourself but not sick enough to go to the Emergency Room.
• Need someone to go to the store for you.
• Someone to be sure you are hydrated and eating.
• Your Flu Buddy needs to wear a mask around you and be absolutely sure to wash their hands. Gloves would be best.

General Information:

• Oregon has had 105 hospitalizations of H1N1 flu resulting in 12 deaths
• The US has had 9000 hospitalizations resulting in 555 deaths (.06% of those hospitalized died)

Get Your Flu Shot -- No Excuses

• You CAN NOT get sick from a flu shot. The vaccine is killed -- dead; it can’t infect you.
• You may feel a general achiness and have a low grade temperature (100 – 101). This is your immune system working to protect you.
• If you are allergic to the preservative they make vaccines without preservative.

The Flu is NOT a Cold is:

• Slow onset. Feeling generally icky
• Scratchy throat
• Runny nose
• Low grade temperature under 101

The Flu Is:

• One day you are feeling fine but the next day you feel horrible.
• High temperature 102 or higher.
• Coughing
• Possible vomiting and diarrhea (only 25% of H1N1 patient present with these symptoms).

Lincoln City Ham Exams

VE License Exams are available in Lincoln City on the first Saturday of every month.

Lincoln City Community Center,2153 N.E. Oar Place, Lincoln City.

Testing starts at 8:30am. Applicants need to arrive no later than 9am. Walk-ins are OK and advance reservations also accepted.

Exam test fee in 2009 is $15 for one or more elements taken on the same day. Photo ID is required. New applicants will need their Social Security number. Bring two copies of your existing license if upgrading.

Contact VE is Carl Somdahl, W7LI,carl@oregoncoast.com

Having Fun With HF

Thank You to John Cooper,KU7G,for helping Bill Clarke,KE7NIX, and Lisa Clarke,KE7NIY,put up a G5RV Antenna. We can now run HF! Bill and I are having a great time getting out on 80,40,20 and 10 meters!!

Lincoln Co. Amateur Radio Club Field Day Report 2009

I had such an awesome time on Field Day at Staples in Newport! My husband Bill and I primarily worked 80 meters. We made many contacts and helped interested persons (including youth) get on the air for the first time. It was so much fun and we can't wait to do it again next year!

Instructions to read our Field Day Report is as follows:
Go to ARRL Home Page
On Search Site type in "Contest Soapbox"
Click on Contest Soapbox 2009 Field Day
Scroll down to N7OY

Newly Licensed Hams

We recently have had five new Hams pass their Technician Exams!
Congratulations!

Also, Robert Clark,KE7NWN, passed his General Exam last week.
Good Job Robert!

Michael Moore,K7UUU, has been doing an excellent job at instructing a Technician Class at Newport Fire Hall and has offered to continue teaching as long as there is enough people interested.

168 Field day stories

Click here to see 168 stories about Field Day

A Ham Radio Weekend for Talking to the Moon - NYTimes.com

A Ham Radio Weekend for Talking to the Moon - NYTimes.com: "Only about 1,000 ham radio buffs worldwide have the equipment to bounce a signal off the moon.
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By ASHLEE VANCE
Published: June 26, 2009
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Dogs bay at it. Lovers swoon under it. And some people like to bounce their voices off it.

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Michael Cousins, an engineer at SRI International, a non-profit that operates the dish, center, in the control room, with Ham operators Lance Ginner, left, and Jim Klassen.
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A radio dish at Stanford is powerful enough to bounce signals off the moon, a tricky endeavor.
The first two are easy, but sending a voice signal 239,200 miles to the moon and back is not quite as simple.

On Saturday, amateur radio buffs or “hams,” as they call themselves, will hold a global bounce-fest, using as many giant parabolic antenna radio telescopes as they can borrow around the world"

AMATEUR RADIO LICENSE TESTING

License Examinations are available in Newport on the second Saturday of every month. They are held at Newport Senior Center on SE 2nd St.@ 0900am. Exam test fee in 2009 is $15.00 for one or more elements taken on the same day. Photo ID is required. Bring two copies of your existing license if upgrading.

Look!

See the name of the person who made the last Post? The one just below this? It's Lisa!!!! Good job Lisa.

Field Day June 27th and June 28th

The Lincoln County Amateur Radio Club is having a Field Day event Saturday June 27th at 11:00am through Sunday June 28th at 11:00am. Please join us at Staple's parking lot 721 N Highway 101, Newport, Oregon.
It's guaranteed to be lots of fun with multiple stations set up. For those who have never talked over a ham radio or the newly licensed hams, we have the G.O.T.A station (Get On The Air), the station allows unlicensed or inactive people to get on the air and give ham radio a try. Come out and see what amateur radio is all about. You don't have to be a ham radio operator to participate.
STOP BY AND SEE WHAT AMATEUR RADIO HAS TO OFFER!

Bruce Perens - A Cyber-Attack on an American City

Bruce Perens - A Cyber-Attack on an American City: "Although they are silent on the topic, I hope those responsible for emergency services, be they in business or government, are learning the lessons of Morgan Hill. The first lesson is what stayed up: stand-alone radio systems and not much else. Cell phones failed. Cellular towers can not, in general, connect phone calls on their own, even if both phones are near the same tower. They communicate with a central switching computer to operate, and when that system doesn't respond, they're useless. But police and fire authorities still had internal communications via two-way radio.

Realizing that they'd need more two-way radio, authorities dispatched police to wake up the emergency coordinator of the regional ham radio club, and escort him to the community hospital with his equipment. Area hams dispatched ambulances and doctors, arranged for essential supplies, and relayed emergency communications out of the area to those with working telephones."

Cascadia Peril .. Coast Guard, CERT joint exercise needs Ham Operators

Hello, this is Ron Thomas talking....

Cascadia Peril is an exercise that starts this Sunday and runs through Wednesday, April 29th. CERT will be the primary ground agency working with the Coast Guard. HAM operators will be establishing a communications backbone link tying areas of operation together with a central NET Control.The plan is for several flyovers at points in the county that have been designated as places where supplies can be distributed from and medical equipment and injured can be picked up following a major disaster.

Although CERT has some trained HAM operators, it does not have enough to cover all the points that should be covered. If you would like to participate you would be welcomed. You need not cover but one day or you can work multiple days.
The time would be about 2 1/2 hours per day from 9:30 to 12:00pm plus travel time to your assigned location. Points of assignment can be as far north as Neskowin and into the forest to east Eddyville, Nashville and south to Yahats and Fisher.

Table Mountain Repeater will be used. If you have learned how to take, send and log messages that would be a plus but is not a requirement.

Interested ? Contact me pronto.... teckron@gmail.com

NASA - Missouri Students To Receive Special Call From Space

NASA - Missouri Students To Receive Special Call From Space: "Missouri Students To Receive Special Call From Space


PARNELL, Mo. -- A little bit of the final frontier is coming to Missouri during a live in-flight education downlink from the International Space Station. On Tuesday, Jan. 27, from 10:05 a.m. to 10:25 a.m. CST, selected students from the Northeast Nodaway school district and Northwest Missouri State University will spend 20 minutes talking to Expedition 18 astronauts Mike Fincke and Sandy Magnus aboard the International Space Station. The event will be the first with a Missouri school in the eight-year history of education downlink opportunities."

Hello all...

This is Ron Thomas KE7NIW,

I just wanted to say Happy New Year and to say even though you haven't heard me on the radio and this web page has not had many articles posted of late... we are still here.

You will notice that the list of people and their Calls is growing... Take a look.

With all the members that we have... someone of you surely has something to say... even if it is Happy New Year. There is a feature on this website that is so cool. It has it's own email address! You just write an email to that address and it publishes itself right on the website instantly!

Want to sell or give away something? Send an email to the special address. Want to tell everyone about a new antenna you made? Send an email to the special address! Ask who has experience building or programing a radio... Send an email to the special address! Need to find out someone's phone number? Send an email to the special address! Tons of possibilities.... Once you have sent your email watch the comments at the bottom of your post on the website... people will answer there.

What is this special address? Well here is the deal... I will give it to any of you that email me at teckron@gmail.com
which is my personal address. I can't publish the special address here in a posting because all kinds of spam and junk mail will start being posted to our site by outsiders.

This website (ok, it's a blog)can be infinitely better with member participation....