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The newest version of the Georgia Baptist Disaster Relief
Communications Manual has been uploaded to the Files Section of the Yahoo
Group. The file name is GA.DR.Communication s.rev.01. 08. The file is in PDF
format, requiring Adobe Acrobat or another PDF program to open it. If you
have problems accessing the file please let me know.

I have left the previous version posted for the time being in case anyone
wants to access it for comparison. It will be deleted in about two (2)
weeks.

Thanks & 73,
Larry Tyson, W4WLT
Georgia Baptist Disaster Relief
Communications Task Force Director

Georgia Baptist Communications has been requested to support
Clean-up and Recovery Unit 19-R in Eastman, Georgia. GA 19-R will be leaving
on Monday, April 16, 2007 in response to storm damage in the middle Georgia
area. Initial assessment is currently underway. At this time, no
Communications Unit will be deployed, but Rapid Response or Jump Teams are
needed, using a local repeater yet to be determined. A Communicator who can
set up a 2 meter base station at the Dodge County Association office and two
(2) Communicators who can deploy to the field are needed for each
Communications team. Please respond to w4wlt@earthlink. net if you are
available with the dates you can deploy, or call Larry Tyson, W4WLT, at
404-213-0209 (email preferred).

The address for the Dodge County Association office is 5225 Creighton
Street, Eastman, GA, 31023, phone 478-374-7676. The information I have right
now is Volunteers will be staying at and working from a Community Center
beside the Association office. As with all disaster responses, situations
can change rapidly. Thank you in advance for your prayerful consideration of
how you can assist those impacted by this storm and your willingness to
serve our Lord through Disaster Relief.

Larry Tyson, W4WLT

Georgia Baptist Disaster Relief

Communications Task Force Director

11-25-06 A small work party met atop Sawnee Mountain to install a D-Star repeater. By noon, several local "hams" discovered the system was operational.

On August 8, 2005, President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005. This Act changed the time change dates for Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. Beginning in 2007, DST will begin on the second Sunday of March and end the first Sunday of November. The Secretary of Energy will report the impact of this change to Congress. Congress retains the right to revert the Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedule once the Department of Energy study is complete.

Dr. White announced on Wednesday that Stuart Lang will be the new Disaster Relief, World Changer, and Baptist Buliders consultant for the Georgia Baptist Convention.

Stuart and Kim Crumbie will be moving their offices to the Associational Missions Ministry of the GBC.

Frank Nuckolls is the speciallist in this ministry. It is also the ministry the Ricky Thrasher our Crisis Truma Intervention Task Force leader works with.

There are two other ministry assistants in the ministry, Emily Hill and Lorri Cruse. This office is located in the new building next to the Men's Ministry office.

Dr. White explained to the Convention employees since the majority of our units were by associations, this seems like a great fit in the long run.

We welcome Stuart as our new DR director and pray for he and his
family as they make this transistion.

The NA4MB Echolink Node is now active 24/7 and will remain online continually in conference mode and is also continually connected to the W4CBA-R Echolink repeater just North of the North American Mission Board. If you have Echolink capability you can connect to NA4MB at Echolink Node 286635. If you are mobile in the metro area you can contact NA4MB on the W4CBA UHF repeater on 444.625 MHZ PL 123 or connect to it via Echolink Node 192874.

Praise the Lord, today the Georgia Supreme Court ruled unanimously to overturn a lower court ruling against the Marriage Amendment in Georgai.

That means that the vote of 76% of the people of Georgia stands and the Marriage Amendment has been reinstated.

As you know the Georgia Baptist Convention, the Alliance Defense Fund and fourteen state lawmakers had filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case.

Thank you for your prayers and for the support in this appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court.

Ray Newman, Specialist
Ethics and Public Affairs
Georgia Baptist Convention
6405 Sugarloaf Parkway
Duluth, GA. 30097-4092
770.936.5316

As a result of discussions at National Roundtable last month activity is
beginning to pick up on the Southbears nets. It was decided to better
cover the US since propagation is poor was to divide the nets into
geographical quadrants. Don Miller, N4ZUV, from Florida agreed to assume
the responsibility of Eastern Net Manager and Paul Ridley, N5PR, from New
Mexico agreed to assume the responsibility of Western Net Manager. Don has
had some success with calling the 40 meter net on Sunday afternoons on 7260
Khz at 3:30 Eastern Time. Paul will be away on Sundays for several weeks
and will get the Western segment started in a few weeks.

I spoke yesterday with David Johnson, KB5YLG, near Dallas and asked him if
he would mind trying to call a 20 meter net on Sunday afternoons for a few
weeks to see if propagation might be favorable on that band. David will
call the 20 meter net at 5:30 Eastern, 4:30 Central on 14.260-14.265
Mhz. If you are available that time of day listen for David as he is
located pretty well in the South Central part of the US and if conditions
are good should be able to hear several of us.

So, for the time being Southbears nets will be as follows on Sunday afternoons:

40 meters on 7260 Khz at 3:30 Eastern N4ZUV Net Control

20 meters 14.260-14.265 Mhz at 5:30 Eastern, KB5YLG Net Control

If you are available during these times please try to check in and lets see
if we can't get some activity started back up on these nets.

73
Terry, W4TL