By Brian Lawler
All ACS members must complete ICS-100, 200, 700, and 800. If you have not already done so, please email a copy of your ALL certificates, including other ICS and non-NIMS training, to Dale.
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Amateur exam and General classes
By Brian Lawler
A lot of people are asking for a Amateur General Class course and we hear you. Please help us design a course that will suit the desires of the students. Take the survey, and once we have the class scheduled, a notice will appear here soliciting registrations. Please fill out the survey even if you don’t have a strong preference. If we don’t see the interest we won’t do the class. Thanks!
Work Party Oct 9
The work party for the Blaine Harvey Rd repeater
site is set-up for Saturday Oct. 9th, from about 9:00am to about noon or before if finished. Hope the weather is on our side, will reschedule if
not.
Please let me know if you can help that day.
Bob WA7ZWG
wa7zwg1@comcast.net
920-0255
I-5 Detour At D Street Aug 9 thru 20
By Brian Lawler
BLAINE – Crews will close the southbound lanes of Interstate 5 in Blaine for nearly two weeks while they repave a bridge and install new bridge transitions.
The state Department of Transportation will close the southbound lanes at D Street – just south of the border – for 12 days. They’ll be closed from 7 a.m. Monday, Aug. 9, to Aug. 20.
Read more: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2010/08/05/1556648/southbound-i-5-in-blaine-to-close.html
D*STAR Messaging via WC7SO
By Brian Lawler
WC7SO Gateway was down for a couple of days due to our Internet Service Provider making a configuration change on their side that broke connectivity for a while. While I was waiting on their changes at the site I fixed the simplex data link. Please try to connect to Station WC7SO using D-RATS on 145.750 Simplex (DV mode). The system will also accept connections via the internet at wc7so.ham-radio-op.net port 9000. Note that the d-rats client is currently running in GATEWAY configuration, where there is no direct link between Internet and RF connections. Messages may be passed between them (hence the “Gateway” moniker).
Washington Guard / Blaine ACS Joint Ops
By Brian Lawler at WhatcomRadio
On Thursday August 6th a group from the 143rd Combat Communications Squadron based at camp Murray came to the airport in Blaine for a joint communications exercise with members of the Blaine Auxiliary Communications Service. The military was testing an extensive range of communications gear designed to be kept packaged and ready to deploy when called upon by the State of Washington.