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Date Net control Checkins Formal traffic Duration minutes Comments
08-17-08 WA5ROE 37   35 great conditions.
08-10-2008 WA5ROE 42   28  
08-03-2008 WA5ROE 34   25  
07-27-2008 WA5ROE 41   25 k5wlf Larry from Stephenville visitor. k5isd/5 Marshall Cloudcroft, NM, visitor. Also, the missing report from the last Sunday in June was Field Day. The net was called from Field Day by wa5roe, count not available, unless I can get it from Ke5og. 73 wa5roe
07-20-2008 W5NPR 35   25 K5DDL/David/Hico, TX checked in as a visiting station.
07-13-2008 KM5VM 49     Earlys 18. 2Meter 5. Regular checkins 31. Roundtable 6. Bill W5NPR and Bill W5ATO helped with relays. Barb KM5VM
07-06-2008 WA5ROE 38   34  
06-29-2008          
06-22-2008 W5NPR 37   35  
06-15-2008 WA5ROE 41   28  
06-08-2009 WA5ROE 38   34  
06-01-2008 WA5ROE 41   32  
05-25-2008 W5NPR 37   30  
05-18-2008 WA5ROE 31   29 Rough rx conditions on my end. Add to roster: kd5vta- Jake- Post , TX. Remove: k5eye, Alice. k5hpj, El Paso. ka5ewk, El Paso. kb5uwr, Lamesa. n5mmq, San Angelo. 73 wa5roe
05-11-2008 WA5ROE 39   30 Correction to roster. Correct call for Steve in San Antonio is ke5qfc. Remove from roster w5yej, Bill, Rio Rancho. 73 wa5roe
05-04-2008 W5NPR 44   35 Add KE5KFC/ Steve/San Antonio. KD5RYZ/Phillip/Deming NM, checked in as a visiting station.
04-27-2008 W5NPR 37   37  
04-20-2008 W5ATO 41   27  
04-13-2008 WA5ROE 43   25 10 check ins from Ft. Davis bike event while providing comm for scenic loop race. 73 wa5roe
04-06-2008 WA5ROE 41   27 add to roster k5rs, Steve, Midland 73 wa5roe
03-30-2008 W5NPR 36   25  
03-23-2008 WA5ROE 32   28  
03-16-2008 W5NPR 43   32 Bob wa5roe checked in by land line from Orlando, Fl. add Von w5cow, Hope, NM to roster.
03-09-2008 WA5ROE 40   30 add to roster KD4LXC, Bill, Odessa 73 wa5roe
03-02-2008 WA5ROE 39   28  
02-24-2008 W5NPR 40   23  
02-17-2008 WA5ROE 41   23 Please add W5NQZ, Steve, Iraan to the roster.
Wind damaged my inverted V. Had to do a fast emergency repair. Thanks for all the relays.
02-10-2008 WA5ROE 41   30 Add to roster W5MLS, Mike, Midland.
comment to WA5ZFH, J.T. please tell Mike, w5mls that I added him to the net roster 73 Bob, wa5roe
02-03-2008 WA5ROE 41   29  
01-27-2008 W5NPR 44   39 K7ICW, Al, Las Cruses, NM, checked in as a guest.
01-20-2008 WA5ROE 37   30  
01-13-2008 WA5ROE 35   33 Add to roster K5IIY, Gene, Stephenville. 73 WA5ROE
01-06-2008 WA5ROE 45   31 Visitor K5HIX, Robert, Brownwood
12-30-2007 WA5ROE 37   21 remove from net, kd5vfv odessa, ke5abo pecos. 73 wa5roe
12-23-2007 W5NPR 35   30 Conditions poor. KD5ULT (Russell/Livingston, Tx) checked in as a guest from Big Bend. Please remove N5XB (John/Odessa) from the roster. Also remove W5QDH (Jack/Alpine) who is a SK as of 12-18-07. WA5ROE reported that Jack was the longest tentured ham in Alpine.
12-16-2007 WA5ROE 37   32 remove from net: n5xb, moved, w5qdh, SK, Jack passed away 12/18 wa5roe
12-09-2007 WA5ROE 42   33  
12-02-2007 W5NPR 43   25  
11/24/2007 W5NPR 31   32  
11/11/2007 WA5ROE 43   31 Remove W5KBW, Hugh, Midland from roster. Hugh is SK. He passed away Friday, November 9. 73 Bob, wa5roe
11/04/2007 WA5ROE 47   30 add to roster wb5pdw, Al, San Angelo n5vrp, Dennis, San Antonio 73 Bob, wa5roe
10/28/2007 KM5VM 29     25 folks checked in to the net on 3.922. 4 folks checked in on 2M.
10/21/2007 WA5ROE 35   25 Oct. 28 net control will be KM5VM.
10/14/2007 WA5ROE 36   28  
10/07/2007 WA5ROE 39   32

N5FRN gave an OO report during the WTX Section portion of the net. 73 wa5roe
09/30/2007 WA5ROE 38   28  
09/23/2007 W5NPR 43   25  
09/16/2007 WA5ROE 39   22 Today is the 30th anniversary of the BBEN. The first net met 9/18/1977 on 3925. 4 check-ins: wa5roe, n5do, wb5sfa (nv5s) and wa5qzt (SK) wa5roe
09/09/2007 WA5ROE 42   32  
09/02/2007 N5DO 43   26 Several checked-in from the Big Balloon Bash at Sierra la Rana south of Alpine.
08/26/2007 W5NPR 44   25  
08/19/2007 KM5VM 37     37 members of the net checked in. 6 on 2m and 31 on 3922. Propagation good. I fixed myself a cheat sheet of call signs - listed by first letter. Helped enormously during earlies. KB5KBU took 2m checkins and stood by - greatly appreciated. Feel ok about the job done. 2 folks want to be added to list of BBEN. 1. KE5IHI Tim Mitchell, HCR 1 Box 29, Del Rio, TX 78840. First time listener and would like to be part of it. 2. KE5TN Dave Ross, 4703 Preston Street, Midland, TX 79707. He said he used to be on the list and would like to be active again. Barb KM5VM
08/12/2007 WA5ROE 37   30  
08/05/2007 WA5ROE 47   33  
07/29/2007 WA5ROE 43   25 Net was called by WA5ROE at W5QZT's QTH near Johnson City.
07/21/2007 W5NPR 33   25  
07/15/2007 WA5ROE 43   22  
07/08/2007 WA5ROE 36   27 Conditions poor.
07/01/2007 WA5ROE 36 0 22  
06/24/2007 W5NPR 45 2 received. 1 sent 5 (Net control through K5FD). Net conducted from Field Day site, WB0ZTC (Mike) checked in as a guest
06/17/2007 WA5ROE 36   30  
06/10/2007 WA5ROE 34   25  
06/03/2007 WA5ROE 36   23  
05/27/2007 W5NPR 27   25  
05/19/2007 WA5ROE 38   25  
05/13/2007 WA5ROE 43   30 Remove from roster ka5nja (moved) k5rdp9 (based on info from wt5o). I don't think n5svk, Don from San Angelo got added. 73 roe
05/06/2007 WA5ROE 35   29 Add to roster n5svk, Don, San Angelo. 73. wa5roe
04/29/2007 W5NPR 34   30 Conditions terrible. Required considerable relay assistance.
04/22/2007 N5DO 44     1 new member, KC5NOX, Gary, Sweetwater. N5DO, Net Control
04/15/2007 WA5ROE 33   26  
04/01/2007 W5NPR 35   25  
03/25/2007 AD5BY 30   31 Ray, N5SR, reports that Grif's (N5AG) mother-in-law passed away. Our condolences to Grif and family. Conditions were horrible and my thanks to August, K5HCT and others who helped relay traffic and to Jim, KD5KBU for gathering 2meter checkins.
03/18/2007 WA5ROE 34   26  
03/11/2007 WA5ROE 28   28 Add to roster kd5hyb, Amy, Sanderson. Remove from roster k5cdv, John, Dallas. 73 wa5roe
03/04/2007 WA5ROE 34   25  
02/25/2007 W5NPR 40   25  
02/18/2007 AD5BY 29   19 Test session in Fort Stockton on Saturday, Feb 17.  Four new hams. Richard, N5DLX, will start another class on Feb 27 at the EMS in Fort Stockton. Contact rmcgee@nwol.net to sign up or for more info.
02/11/2007 WA5ROE 36   29  
02/04/2007 WA5ROE 34   30 add to roster kd5xn, Bill, Wimberley
01/28/2007 WA5ROE 33   26  
01/21/2007 WA5ROE 34   28  
01/14/2007 WA5ROE 43   39 26 regular check-ins plus w5ato relayed in 17 check-ins from the Big Bend 50 in Big Bend National Park
01/07/2007 W5NPR 21   25  
12/31/2006 KM5VM 32     32 hams checked in. (NV5S checked in from Bryan!) 6 stayed for Round Table. One of the Midland hams, I think kk5mv - Jim, said that the packet link to Alpine is now up and working. Barb
12/24/2006 WA5ROE 27   25  
12/17/2006 W5NPR 32   25 Conditions poor; required considerable relay assistance from N5AG and WA5ROE.
12/10/2006 WA5ROE 35   30  
12/03/2006 WA5ROE 34   30  
11/26/2006 W5NPR 31   25  
11/19/2006 WA5ROE 37   22 correction on call. k5avj is correct call for Lynn, Buffalo Gap 73 wa5roe
11/12/2006 WA5ROE 41   32 kp4ff is now nf5ff (alpine) move wb5mex from Marlin to Yorktown 73 roe
11/05/2006 WA5ROE 38   20 Changes to roster. Add k5avj, Lynn, Buffalo Gap Delete w5ppf, Lee, Abilene.  Just got an e-mail, he passed away Thursday. He last checked in on 10/29. Was in hospital last Sunday. 73 roe
10/29/2006 WA5ROE 32   26 add k5avj to net (Lynn, Buffalo Gap) 73 wa5roe
10/22/2006 WA5ROE 36   20 call change: kp4ff is now nf5ff ( Steve- Alpine). k5ric checked in mobile from Alpine.
10/15/2006 WA5ROE 32   18 net called from Brewster County EOC using new TS2000.
10/08/2006 WA5ROE 36   20  
10/01/2006 WA5ROE 37   30  
09/24/2006 W5NPR 31   20 Add KE5KNQ/Rob/Alpine & KP4FF/Steve/Alpine. Change WB5FBJ from Austin to Abilene.
09/17/2006 WA5ROE 37   22 move wb5fbj from Austin to Abilene.
09/10/2006 W5NPR 37   25  
09/03/2006 KE5OG 37   11 KD5KOU checked in and I did not
recognize the call. He isn't on the roster and I didn't get a name from him
08/27/2006 W5NPR 29   27  
08/20/2006 WA5ROE 37   23  
08/13/2006 WA5ROE 26   27  
08/06/2006 WA5ROE 29   30  
07/30/2006 W5NPR 30   18  
07/23/2006 W5NPR 29   22  
07/16/2006 KA5NJA 20   20  
07/09/2006 W5NPR 30   20  
07/02/2006 W5NPR 25   15 Please add KA5AAJ (actually KA1AAJ), Bob, Alpine; and AD5JZ, Steve, Alpine.
06/25/2006         NO REPORT
06/18/2006 WA5ROE 30   20 Please delete kd5qeb, Alpine and n7sdq, San Angelo from roster. Both moved out of area. 73 Bob, wa5roe
06/11/2006 WA5ROE 31   25  
06/04/2006 WA5ROE 37   23  
05/28/2006 W5NPR 37   25 Add  W5RDS/Rick/El Paso;  WA5VEE was a visiting ham, he and several other hams were conducting an emergency drill from Paisano Baptist Encampment.
05/21/2006 WA5ROE 34   29 new 6 meter ARES net from Austin 50.230, 8:00PM, Fridays. 73 Bob, wa5roe
05/14/2006 WA5ROE 33   20  
05/07/2006 W5NPR 34   25  
04/30/2006 WA5ROE 39   20 note to Doug: #113 on the roster is out of place at the end
04/23/2006 W5NPR 35   30 Conditions poor, add w5yej (Bill), Rio Rancho, NM
04/16/2006 WA5ROE 45   22 Add W5YEJ to roster, Bill, Rio Rancho, NM. Bill is the SEC for NM.
04/09/2006 KE5OG 35   16 AD5HR, John, checked in from San Antonio and would like to be added to the roster.
04/02/2006 WA5ROE 30   26 w5yej, SEC NM, checked in. 73 Bob, wa5roe
03/26/2006 W5NPR 38   30  
03/19/2006 W5NPR 32   19  
03/12/2006 WA5ROE 41   18  
03/05/2006 WA5ROE 38   24  
02/26/2006 WA5ROE 44   23  
02/19/2006 AD5BY 30   21  
02/12/2006 WA5ROE 44   25  
02/05/2006 WA5ROE 33   21  
01/29/2006 W5NPR 31   23 Change K5CWO to K5CW. (Roland El Paso).
01/22/2006 WA5ROE 37   22 New call for k5cwo, Rowland, El Paso ---- new call is K5CW-----. 73. Bob, wa5roe
01/15/2006 WA5ROE 56   28 43 check ins from roster. Also 13 additional stations in Big Bend National Park on 2 meters assisting with the Big Bend 50 marathon relayed in by w5ato. 73. Bob, wa5roe
01/08/2006 WA5ROE 37   29 Move k5rdp back to Bastrop. He didn't make the move to Houston. 73. Bob, wa5roe
01/01/2006 WA5ROE 37   32 Add to roster W5PPF, Lee, Abilene. 73. wa5roe
12/25/2005 WA5ROE 22   10 MERRY CHRISTMAS to all and to all good luck in the contest. 73. wa5roe
12/18/2005 WA5ROE 39   25  
12/11/2005 WA5ROE 42   21  
12/04/2005 WA5ROE 40   27  
11/27/2005 W5NPR 30   18  
11/20/2005 WA5ROE 38   28  
11/13/2005 K5RIC 40      
11/06/2005 WA5ROE 39   22  
10/30/2005 WA5ROE 43   22 add to roster wa5zfh, J.T., Midland
10/23/2005 W5NPR 35   21  
10/16/2005 WA5ROE 37   30  
10/09/2005 K5RIC 23   25 changes---- move k5rdp to Houston , will be a while before he is back on air remove ke5aaa, moved out of area, might be back in a year or so
10/02/2005 WA5ROE 41   31 kk5mv checked in operating k5psa at CAF airshow, Midland
09/18/2005 AD5BY 61   35 Net control passed to AD5BY due to extremely bad noise level at KM5VM. Thanks to several net folks for helping me trouble shoot my transmit audio. Thanks to Rick, K5RIC for proposing what turned out to be the solution. Happy 18th to Bob and the net. Many folks sent their kudos for a job well done over the years.
09/11/2005 WA5ROE 38   31 Conditions rough. Add to roster k5cwo, Roland, El Paso
08/28/2005 W5NPR 30   35 QST from W5WRL
08/14/2005 WA5ROE 41   45 qst by w5wrl
08/07/2005 K5RIC       No Report
08/07/2005 W5ATO/K5RIC 8     8 (two-meter), no report on hf
07/31/2005 W5NPR 28   25  
07/24/2005 W5NPR 31   25  
07/17/2005 AD5BY 25   19 I appreciate the relay help from Norm and Ray. I had an s9+ noise level all across the band. I will look at my wire antenna to check for damage. I appreciate everyone's patience. For anyone I may have missed, I apologize. Thanks to Jim for the 2meter checkins.
07/03/2005 WA5ROE 27   30  
06/26/2005 KM5VM 32   ?? Field Day went ok. We had five children on the GOTA station - fun.
06/19/2005 KM5VM 38   30 Welcome to Barb, KM5VM, as a new net control for the BBEN! Good job, Barb!
06/05/2005 WA5ROE 32   21 conditions rough
05/29/2005 WA5ROE 38   24 qst by SM, ae5b
05/22/2005 W5NPR 36   18 N0RAF, DAVID PRIDEMORE, McKINNEY, TX, CHECKED THROUGH K5RIC, APPARENTLY BY ECHO NET, AS A VISITING STATION.
05/15/2005 WA5ROE 30   19 Conditions lousy
05/01/2005 WA5ROE 37   27 wb5bbt reported as SK this past week, Lewis Ransom was one of the early members of the BBEN. 73 wa5roe
04/24/2005 AD5BY 31   26  
04/17/2005 WA5ROE 37   22  
04/10/2005 K5RIC 38   32  
04/03/2005 WA5ROE 41   30 add to roster kd5kbu, Jim, Ft Davis ke5no, Noel, San Angelo 73 wa5roe
03/27/2005 W5NPR 34   20  
03/20/2005 WA5ROE 36   23 k5ric turned 60 today, almost as old as me 73 Bob, wa5roe
03/13/2005 K5RIC 42   ?? Visiting Stations: WB5LJO, N5HRD N5DLX requested help with the Big Bend Car Races 23 April
03/05/2005 KE5OG 36   16  
02/27/2005 W5NPR 38   25  
02/13/2005 K5RIC and AD5BY 31   31 K5RIC's radio failed after 18 checkins, net took over by John AB5BY for an additions 13 checkins and roundtable.

Message from K5RIC: Radio failed, I have my spare unit on the air, but todays wind was 60+ so I was not able to get out to raise the Loop back up. 73 rick k5ric
02/13/2005 W5NPR 35   28  
02/06/2005 AD5BY 37   18  
01/30/2005 WA5ROE 38   25 call sign change kd5vaq has new call now ke5dpz need a net control for next week 73 bob, wa5roe
01/23/2005 W5NPR 33   30 Add K5BAQ, Dave, Fredericksburg K4BHL, Dale, Las Cruces
01/16/2005 WA5ROE 39   30 add to roster k4bhl, dale, las cruces, nm
01/02/2005 WA5ROE 38   26  
12/26/2004 W5NPR 27      
12/19/2004 WA5ROE 40   30  
12/12/2004 K5RIC 40   ?? Visiting station: N7DRB Jim. Band was strange some stations I normally hear well were poor and stations that I normally can not hear well were strong. It was nice to have KE5AAA and W5QZTchecking in with new upgrades. 73 rick k5ric
12/05/2004 WA5ROE 35   25 km5fq, Bob, Big Spring reported as SK. Bob had been a member of our net many years, also the #1 traffic man from WTX. Remove from roster. Good news.. 2 upgrades to be added to net roster. w5qzt, Jack, Johnson City. ke5aaa, John, Big Bend 73 bob, wa5roe
11/28/2004 WA5ROE 28   22 call sign change kd5teb (midland) new call K5PDL. remove from roster n7xkd, Big Bend w5ows, fst
11/21/2004 W5NPR 28   24  
11/07/2004 WA5ROE 34   17  
10/31/2004 WA5ROE 33   20  
10/24/2004 WA5ROE 33   20 Midland Co. ARES SET is Sat 10/30, 5-8 pm. We were asked to stand by to assist but no freq. are available??? J.P., K5FBK in Ruidosa, NM has asked for help with a SET involving a hospital exercise in NM. Has requested help from Lubbock and Amarillo ARES. His e-mail is jpk5fbk@hotmail.com.
10/17/2004 WA5ROE 38   32  
10/10/2004 K5RIC 28   28  
10/03/2004 WA5ROE/AD5BY 28   27 WA5ROE began as net control, but due to high noise condition and an important land-line, AD5BY took over as net control for the remainder of the net
09/26/2004 WA5ROE 39   27  
09/19/2004 WA5ROE 32   26  
09/12/2004 WA5ROE 42   25 add to roster K9ING, Bob, Midland K5RIC tried to call net but had rig trouble so wa5roe was net control. 73 Bob, wa5roe
09/05/2004 AD5BY 42   20 Bob, WA5ROE and Jeff, KD5QEB checked in from the BBARC Communications Van as the club was providing communications for the annual balloon rally in Alpine. Bob gave me 2 meter checkins. Yours truly, net control was a very, very sick person. Thanks to all for your patience. I sort of remember being there. 73, John, AD5BY
08/29/2004 WA5ROE 42   22 This coming week-end is the Big Bend Balloon Bash. BBARC will provide comm Sat., Sun., and Mon. AD5BY will be net control on BBEN Sunday.
08/15/2004 WA5ROE 31   28  
08/08/2004 WA5ROE 31 1 21  
08/01/2004 WA5ROE 32 1 25  
07/25/2004 WA5ROE 24   20 Bad line noise and not a lot of check-in's.
07/18/2004 KE5OG 32 20   Today's net was most successful i.e. we gotter done. We had 32 checkins and the net lasted 20 minuts. Tim, KE5ATV, checked in via 2 meters from Fort Davis where I got the impression he was visiting. He is K5CDV's son-in-law. N5POB had traffic of sorts, he wanted AE5B's phone number. We handled that on the spot because of conditions with the able relay assistance of AD5BY. 73, Bill
07/11/2004 K5RIC 32   ?? Conditions were poor / noise was high. We had rain here last 24 hours and my antenna when wet gets poor, will see about finding why today if rain goes away.
07/04/2004 WA5ROE & KE5OG 31   ?? ke5og assumed net control for roundtable add to roster n5frn D.J. Gardendale, Tx
06/27/2004 K5FD 34     net control was wa5roe operating k5fd at the bbarc field day
06/20/2004 AD5BY 30   26 16 If you are planning to attend BBARC's Field Day and are going to have Friday/Saturday night meals, please let WA5ROE, Bob, know no later that Tuesday afternoon. Cost is $25 and an addtional $5/per guest. WA5POK, Mike, will be traveling from Spring to participate in our Field Day again this year. Is planning to be here Friday. Apologies to N5FRN. Was able to pull his call sign, but everything else was buried in the mud. Maybe next time. Thanks to KE5OG, Bill, for gathering the 2-meter checkins for me.
06/13/2004 WA5ROE/AD5BY 28   19 Bob called the roll, but had to leave early. John, AD5BY, moderated the round-table.
Richard, N5DLX, reported Joe is doing ok and is back home. He has an ht with him.
06/06/2004 KE5OG 28   15 And a great time was had by all
05/30/2004 KD5MXR 27   19 Conditions not too good, Thank goodness AD5BY was around for relays...
Norm K5LYO will be on a road trip to Alaska, and will not be on the net for the next 5 weeks.
05/23/2004 WA5ROE 37   31  
05/16/2004 WA5ROE 44   24 AD5OJ, Jonathon added to roster.
05/09/2004 WA5ROE & K5RIC 39   20 wa5roe was net control for roll call. k5ric got his noise fixed and ran the roundtable portion.
05/02/2004 WA5ROE 31   22 n0kv/5 mobile from Big Bend
04/25/2004 KE5OG 30   19 Ricky's thyroid is acting up and he going to see the Dr. tomorrow.
04/17/2004 WA5ROE 33   20  
04/11/2004 K5RIC 29   ?? Lots of rain with some snow in areas.
04/04/2004 WA5ROE 29   22 changes: move kb5tnp and kb5ufx to FST. Aadd kb5rob, Richard to Big Bend. Move w3qkc to Midland. Move wb5fbj to Austin.
03/28/2004 KD5MXR 38   31  
03/21/2004 WA5ROE 29   20 Visiting stations N3GAD and WD5IWN
03/14/2004 K5RIC 27   ??  
03/07/2004 WA5ROE 39   31 events --- Trans Mountain Run in El Paso 3/14/4, North Easter Parade in El Paso 4/10/4
02/29/2004 WA5ROE 33   26  
02/22/2004 KE5OG 37   20  
02/15/2004 WA5ROE 37   21  
02/08/2004 K5RIC 39   ?? N5POB announced that Bill KT5G who was one of the first VE's and managed the Midland VE program had became a SK last Friday. Bob announced that the Club was installing a repeater site on Elephant mtn was now 145.230 and would have the hub installed later. Good conds on the band today. Steve KI5YG announced he had upgraded to Extra last week. k5ric rick
CORRECTION TO RICK'S REPORT The elephant MT. repeater is on 145.25 with 146.2 tone. The new coordinated frequency is 147.02 and will be installed after the MoM event in Terlingua. 73 bob
02/01/2004 WA5ROE 35   28 Add to roster wb5mex,hershel, marlin tx
01/25/2004 WA5ROE 40   25 WA5ROE called roll and round table was picked up by KE5OG.
01/18/2004 KE5OG 35   19

We were visited by N5ZIX, Ron Perry, San Angelo and K5EUZ, Wiley Rich of San Diego (really strong from SD). K5CMW asked about more info on bike race and was told there was no more other than what he had already received at this time. 73, Bill

[webmaster note]: Thanks to Bill, KE5OG, for pulling me out of the fire. I was supposed to do net control duty and literally at the last minute, my swr went skyrocketing. It took a reset of my 756, but I didn't think of that until after the net. Still scratching my head over that one.

01/11/2004 K5RIC 38   ?? Visiting stations: N5ZIX SJT Ron (TX Forestry Service) and W5DWI Dick Alpine

KE5TN Dave, from El Paso, moved up here some time back, they finally purchased a place and Dave hopes to have an HF antenna soon so he may return to the net soon. I have breakfast with Dave each week and have been to his home a few times, he wants to get active on HF again and wants to return to checking into ELP Chapter QCWA net on 3933 each Saturday at 8:30 Mountain time as well as the BBEN. I check into this net each week mobile on the way into Ruidoso. Any of you 25+ year hams might think about QCWA and checking in on Saturday's, this is the closest Chapter net on HF that I know of.

Very dry winter first one here without snow since 97, the week after this net we had cold WX and some light moisture turning into snow Saturday, very dry still, least amount of snow in many years at ski resort, almost 90% manmade this year so far, but they are open and should be until normal shut down time. Due to this we expect a very bad fire season this year, unless we get some large late snow here next 90 days. We will start our preparations and training in February for our ARES / RACES team.

Last Sunday in Dec. 2003 we had a power failure that lasted from five to twelve hours here in Lincoln County. We only have a single power line feed to the county from Alamogordo, very similar to what we had in Brewster county some years back. When we love that single feed we lose all commercial power in the county. We activated an ARES net that ran until power was restored, our battery power back up repeater that became our primary repeater in November due to a wind storm worked great we had close to 20 stations active during the event. This showed our hams had great capability to operate without commercial power under tactical conditions. None of the local radio broadcast stations had emergency power so there was no local information available to the people in the county during this event.

At our house my back up generator had a clogged fuel line and we operated on our solar battery system for our radios, but we could not operate our central heat, outside temps dropped to 10 degrees inside dropped to 54 between 19:00 and 04:10 when the juice came back on.

We found that our land line and cellular systems failed around six hours into the event, so ham radio was very useful. A shelter was set up on Ruidoso and we set had two hams at the shelter with others at the 911 Dispatch, nursing home, Red Cross and some other areas. When the shelter needed gasoline for their generators during the event we found that some non Amateurs were monitoring our ham repeater when we requested gasoline and twenty five gallons showed up at the shelter before any of our hams could respond. Two years ago, when the club voted to set up a full redundant back up repeater instead of adding batteries to the primary repeater turned out to be a great move. During a major wind storm in November, our primary repeater tower failed and fell comepletly removing that repeater from service, our back repeater guy wire broke but that tower fell over into a tree and was at 40 Degrees. We were able to use a come-along and my Jeep to pull it back up and re-set the guy wire prior to that repeater failing. The back up is only about two miles from the primary site so the two sites have very similar radio coverage. I had built up a GE Master II unit for the club as a back up repeater radio when we first moved here and the back up site we were using for a remote base site so we had the tower and antennas up there. For us too set up a 100% back up system only required a set of duplexers, some batteries and a charging system to get operational. That back up has worked great for us this last two years, we turned it on once a week to insure it was working and every time we lost power it worked great, there is a lot to be said for 100% redundancy. For us in November it made the difference of being on the air and operating as if nothing happened. Some of the local hams did not get the word and just a few days ago asked why they heard the Emergency Repeater ID running, they did not even know we had lost our primary system.

The loss of radio broadcast, cellular and land line telephone systems showed that there is a weak link in communications here. I plan to bring this up at the next LEPC meeting here.
01/04/2004 WA5ROE 28   26  
12/28/2003 WA5ROE 35   26 4 informal traffic. Coordinated sked for 12/31/3. El Paso Co. ARES will be active during Sun Bowl. Brewster Co. ARES will monitor 7243. AA5AP will be liaison from El Paso. W5NPR and N5DO will be contacts for Brewster Co.
12/21/2003 WA5ROE 32   22  
12/14/2003 WA5ROE 33   22 add ki5yg to roster
12/07/2003 WA5ROE 28   28 tough copy due to qrm, tnx to all relays
11/30/2003 WA5ROE 33   30  
11/23/2003 WA5ROE 32   25  
11/06/2003 KD5MXR 24   21  
11/09/2003 K5RIC 27   ?? Visiting stations: KI5YG Steve in Pflugerville TX and WA5VYK Joe in Odessa TX. N5DLX in Fort Stockton reported that Albert WB5FWR was in a nursing home he did have 2 meters but not expected to return home. Steve checked in from Pflugerville after many years from leaving Alpine, please add to list. My friend Joe WA5VYK in Odessa checked in, I will ask if he wants to be on list as he has lots of church activities. Band cond. Weird as many stations normally strong were weak. 73, rick k5ric
11/02/2003 WA5ROE 24   13  
10/26/2003 WA5ROE 28   20 conditions rough. Alpine and Davis Mts. reporting 1-1/2 snow. temp. ranging 30-33 degrees
10/19/2003 WA5ROE 31   21  
10/12/2003 K5RIC 33     Bob reported that the Marathon to Marathon event went well. Organized by Barb KM5VM, he also reported that there was possible flooding in the Big Bend Park area due to heavy rain and possible high waters from Mexico. Band was good.
10/05/2003 WA5ROE 27   22 conditions good.
09/28/2003 WA5ROE 25   16  
09/21/2003 WA5ROE 31   21 conditions good.
09/07/2003 KD5MXR 25   21  
08/31/2003 KE5OG 34   17 AE5B checked in and was to stay for the round table but got run off by lightening. He may try to checkin next week from W1AW. He is on the way to Newington for training. K5RIC will be in Odessa for awhile. Jackie is having surgery. After she recoups they will no longer have the Odessa QTH. It's being sold. Ricky was visiting with G4LHR during the net and checked him in. This via EchoLink. That guy can operate can't he?
08/22/2004 WA5ROE 31   23  
08/10/2003 K5RIC 28   42 N5ABV and K5RIC ran a test using Echo Link to see if any stations wanted to check in via Echo Link. We had John AE5B WTX SM, Ed N5ABV, Rick K5RIC,Bill N5POB linked in via Echo Link, Ray N5SR checked with new HF antenna and will try echo link next week. Next week I may try an interface between my HF radio and echo link to see how well that works. AE5B and AB5BY talked via a KISS echo link crossover but the HF noise made for hard copy. If you have echo link try connecting to Ed N5ABV 120514 next week just before the net opens. I must use dial up so I can only make one link and that will be to Ed's node, as he can support 7 other links. At other times when I have my echo link station on, I can be reached at 125232 come by. If you are out traveling and have a lap top and I net connection, check in via Ed's node as a user or from a link by just dialing up his node ID. John AB5BY stated that the next Big Bend ARC meeting they will show the ARRL video about Broadband on Power Line. Band cond. Strange as many stations were strong but many that normally are were not.
08/03/2003 NV5S 24   23 Band conditions poor.
07/06/2003 WA5ROE 29   26  
06/15/2003 WA5ROE 32   20 146.92 repeater took a lightening hit and is off the air pending major repair
06/08/2003 K5RIC 35     Conditions poor.
05/25/2003 WA5ROE 25   20 N5JOE still in hospital, recovering from surgery and doing well.
05/18/2003 WA5ROE 33   22 N5JOE in ICU at regional hospital in Odessa.
05/04/2003 WA5ROE 32   30 N5OKQ, Jerry from San Angelo SK. Long time net member. Will be missed.
03/30/2003 WA5ROE 39   21  
03/23/2003 WA5ROE 39   29  
03/16/2003 WA5ROE 34   17  
03/09/2003 K5RIC       No report available
01/01/2003 WA5ROE 27   29  
12/29/2002 WA5ROE 36   27 k5so and w5kbp reported as sk. memorial for kb5sju still pending.
12/22/2002 WA5ROE 37 1 27 ae5b, john,abilene added to roster.
12/15/2002 WA5ROE 35   25 AE5B, John, WTX Section Manager checked in.
12/08/2002 K5RIC 33      
12/01/2002 WA5ROE 35   25  
11/24/2002 WA5ROE 30   30  
11/17/2002 WA5ROE 33   21 KD5SKX is now W5NPR. Gene, K5GP, visiting from Austin
11/10/2002 K5RIC 26   48 Condition poor. Thanks to KM5VM, Barb and W5WTX, Ted for relays.
11/03/2002 WA5ROE 32   20  
10/27/2002 WA5ROE 35   30  
10/20/2002 WA5ROE 28   22  
09/29/2002 WA5ROE 34   30 Add KD5OZY, James from Coleman to the roster.
09/22/2002 WA5ROE 32   21  
09/15/2002 WA5ROE 34   26 W5TTW, Larry from Uvalde, a long time net member became SK Sunday morning probably during the net. It was announced on the net that he was in the hospital. Norm, k5lyo contacted me via e-mail. 73 bob
09/01/2002 K5RIC 29   ??  
08/25/2002 WA5ROE 25   25  
08/11/2002 K5RIC 33   ?? 2 visiting; K5STP Bill, KD5TRL Keith, Odessa.
08/04/2002 WA5ROE 26   26 Add N7DRB, Jim from Alamogordo, NM.
07/21/2002 WA5ROE 20   25 N5DO assisted when WA5ROE was interrupted. W5DBF (diesel boats forever) checked in from the submarine USS CAVALLA at Galveston, TX
07/14/2002 WA5ROE 33   30  
07/07/2002 WA5ROE 33   39  
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