Official WDN Homepage


	Traffic & Service for the Western NY Section of the ARRL's Atlantic Division

Managers

WDN NEWS: (updated 7/24/2007)

If anyone is interested in being a liaison to either a phone or CW section net, your help is always needed and appreciated. Please contact a net manager for guidance.

73,

Jim, KA2IWK

Who/What/Where/When is WDN?

The Western District Net is part of the amateur radio National Traffic System and covers the 13 Western New York Counties. It is a means of sending and/or receiving messages (Emergency, Priority, Welfare, or other) as a free public service in case of an emergency.

We meet daily at 2130 Eastern on the 145.45 Mhz repeater (PL 141.3) which is in Wethersfield, New York (30 miles SE of Buffalo) for the purpose of handling formal written traffic, and training in Traffic Handling.

Alternate repeaters include:

145.31
146.67 (PL 107.2) Arkwrite, NY
145.11 (PL 110.9) Bristol, NY

Every 15th of the month is simplex night so the net is run on each of the following frequencies depending on your location:

Buffalo area: 147.54 MHz

Rochester area: 147.42 MHz

Southern Tier: 146.55 MHz

(Photo by Vince, N2JRS)

Net Managers

Your Net Manager for WDN is: Tom, KB2DQ

(NOTE: if you click on these email links, change the "AT" in the address to an @ sign to form a proper email address.)

WDN 2006 Picnic Group Shot (August 26th)

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WDN Picnic Pictures

2006 Pictures coming soon...

2005 Pictures here!!!

See the 2004 picnic pictures by clicking here!

WDN New member documents

WDN New Member Guide (thanks to Vince, N2JRS, for this online text version) - contains latest PSHR information.

View/Print Current WDN Duty Roster (PDF format) - updated July 24, 2007

View/Print Current WDN Duty Roster (Rich Text Format [.rtf] format) - updated July 24, 2007

NTS Reference Documents

***UPDATED*** "Standard" Radiogram Texts (thanks to Duane, KC2PCG, for submitting updates),

also in .rft format and the .pdf version here (W1GMF, N1IQI, N1UAN and WB5NKD)

ARRL Numbered Radiogram(html) : the .pdf version here (ARRL document FSD-3)

ARL FORTY SEVEN example

Printable Radiogram Form

New York State county listing ("New York State Communities, Publication 717" dated 9/99)

View local calling areas in and around Rochester, NY (pdf format)
(this is what exchanges can call what exchanges)

- Adobe Acrobat Reader -- Required to view .pdf docs! Download it FREE from here.

NTS Tutorials suggested by your WNY Section Traffic Manager (Bruce Zellar, KA2GJV)

http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/pscm/sec2-ch1.html
(Whole Public Service Communications Manual at: http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/pscm/index.html)

http://www.qsl.net/n5lf/cw-nts.html

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* Our thanks to Karl Weir N2NJH for his help in acquiring this page space on http://hamgate.hamgate.net! *
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Any comments, questions and especially suggestions about this page, should be directed to:
Jim, KA2IWK (NOTE: if you click on this email link, change the "AT" in the address to an @ sign to form a proper email address.)

Last Updated: 5/13/2008

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