HAM RADIO & EMERGENCY 911 COMMUNICATIONS FOR TWO VEHICLE INCIDENTS
Two calls for assistance were heard on the SIERA Repeater.
On Saturday, August 29th, a 4x4 vehicle driving on Black Mountain Rd. near Walker River Park got stuck. He was unable to free his vehicle,
but he did have his ham radio handy. Tuning in to the NV7CV repeater on Leviathan Peak, the ham called out to anyone who might be monitoring. The
link below will play the audio recording of this event:
The second call on Sunday, August 30th, involved a serious motorcycle accident on Hwy 89 near Leviathon Peak. In this rescue a "May Day, May Day"
call was heard on the SIERA repeater. The call was from the scene of a motorcycle head-on collision on Hwy 89 three miles west of Hwy 395. Cell
phones were not working at the crash scene so Ham radio served as another valuable link to emergency services. The link below will play the
audio recording of this event:
See the September 2020 edition of the SIERA Beacon Newsletter for further details on these two event.
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MEETING ADJUSTMENT NOTICE DUE TO COVID-19
Effective immediately and until further notice, all
SIERA meetings will be held via our Repeater
at their regular times (see Repeater information, Net and Meeting Schedules below).
Repeater and Net Info:
The SIERA Repeater is an open 2-meter repeater, located on Leviathon Peak south of the Carson Valley. It operates at
147.33 MHz with a +600 KHz
input offset and a PL of 123.0 Hz. On Tuesday evenings, we conduct a roll-call net on our repeater at 7:30 PM PT. On Wednesday evenings
we conduct an informal net (called the "Watering Hole") on our repeater at 7:30 PM PT. We invite all amateur radio operators to join us
during these nets. The nets meet to discuss, collect, and pass on general information of interest to both club members as well as non-members.
Following the Tuesday evening VHF net we also conduct a roll-call HF net on 3.982MHz ±, LSB, at 8:00 PM PT.
Meeting Schedules:
SIERA General Club Membership Meetings are held at 1:00pm PT on the first Saturday of
each month. We will use the SIERA VHF Repeater to conduct this meeting.
SIERA Club Board Meetings are held at 12:00pm PT (NOON) on the first Saturday of
each month. We will use the SIERA VHF Repeater to conduct this meeting.
SIERA VE Exam Sessions are CANCELED until further notice.
Social Breakfasts:
ALL
Social Breakfast & Lunch Gatherings are CANCELED until further notice.
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SIERA NV7CV REPEATER NEWS
UPDATED: June 11, 2020
New news regarding the Leviathon repeater site. A recent conversation with CAL OES indicates that the plans to build a new repeater site
and tower facility have essentially been put on hold due to the impacts of the Corona Virus and the slumping economy. They are still
gathering information on who is on site, what purpose each user has there and what equipment is presently being used.
So, it looks like it will be business as usual for the foreseeable future. Any new developments will be posted on the SIERA website
as they become known.
Jim Marshall, K6LR
NV7CV Repeater Trustee.
INYO/MONO COUNTY 2M AMATEUR REPEATER LINKING PROJECT
Click on the following links for info on the 2M repeater linking project
from Carson City, Nevada to Pearsonville, California which is just north of Ridgecrest.
All of the links are along the US395 corridor.
Effective immediately and until further notice, all
SIERA meetings will be held via our Repeater
at their regular times (see Repeater information, Net and Meeting Schedules above).
SIERA general
meetings are held on the first Saturday of each month
at:
Carson Valley Methodist Church 1375 Centerville Lane Gardnerville, Nevada (Click here for map)
Start time of the meeting is
1 PM
SIERA is an acronym for
"Sierra Intermountain Emergency Radio Association".
We are a non-profit corporation for education and scientific purposes that provides organization
and training of licensed amateur radio operators so they are capable of maintaining radio
communications, as a public service.
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