The West Central Ohio Amateur Radio Association is a group of amateur radio operators based in the Dayton, Columbus, and surrounding regions. This group has formed around systems that originally were developed under the old Kettering Medical Center Amateur Radio Association (KMCARA). It is wholly independent of the Kettering Medical Center (KMC) and the KMCARA but does have some working relations with the KMC through memorandums of understanding with KMC.

ANOTHER EVENT NEEDS HELP

The Women’s Walk for Wellness is a Kettering Health Network-sponsored public service event. It is scheduled to occur this year, on Sunday, 4 May 2008, at the Carillon Historical Park, off South Patterson Boulevard, in Dayton. For planning purposes, this event has scheduled the walk to start at 2:00 P.M. (1400 hours). Amateur radio operators need to be on-site, to receive their assignments, before 1:00 P.M. (1300 hours). Talk-in will be on the 145.110 MHz repeater, and the net control should be in the small parking lot on Patterson Boulevard, in front of the Carillon Tower. The event is usually over by 3:30 P.M. (1530 hours). Randy, KA0AZS, will post the latest information on this public service event on the District 3 ARES Web Page (www.ohd3ares.org). Please reserve a place on your calendar for this event, as WCOARA member support has been decreasing for the past several years.

April Meeting April 21, 2008

Don't forget the April WCOARA meeting will be held at Kettering Medical Center in Nelson Conference Center Room 3 at 7:00 PM on Monday April 21, 2008. This meeting will feature the Vectren Gas Safety Demonstration that was scheduled for February. It was rescheduled due to the inclement weather we experienced in February.

Anyone with material for the April Newsletter please submit it to Terry W8WLW no later than Sunday April 13, 2008.

Field Day 2008

Be sure to check out our new (or slightly recycled) Officers.