Anderson County ARES Web Page Update

Hello Everyone,

 

After much discussion and brain storming we have created the Anderson County ARES  homepage & web blog to provide information to all members of ARES in Anderson and surrounding counties. 

 

The page can be accessed with a new link http://www.w4aca.org and the current link of http://www.andersoncountyares.com

 

The new page will be interactive in several ways -

 

• Weather Information - Each morning a Hazardous Weather Bulletin (HWOMRX) will be displayed and updated daily or more depending on the National Weather forecast - Severe Weather Watches, Warnings and Flood statements are also posted.
• Reminders from the Anderson County ARES Yahoo group.
• The page is now interactive in a blog format.  The interactive part will allow ANYONE to be able to post using this address acaresblog@etskywarn.org The post will allow several options ranging direct posting to online viewable comments from readers.  The posts and comments are un-moderated at this point to allow for real time posting from the community at large, but if anyone finds something that needs to be removed please contact Moe Brewer at n4cqw@etskywarn.org with the information and the post will be removed and the email address that posted it will be blocked from accessing the post again.
• The page will also include a interactive poll system that allows us to gather feedback from readers of the page.  The current poll is about obtaining a email domain using the W4ACA domain name. (AKA your call sign @ w4aca.org) This would be a free email account open to all users of the site.  If you would like more information about this please contact Moe Brewer at the above address.
• RSS Feeds are also included now.  The current hour weather update from the National Weather Service Office in Oak Ridge are now included on the main page.  Feeds from Amateur Radio Newsline, Eham.net and the ARRL are also on the web page at the very bottom of the page.  These change often as updates are released, so please check them often.  If anyone has any other feeds they would like to have displayed on the web page, please let me know so I can add them.
• With the change in the net schedule we have also decided to add a weekly feature to the page of having the training information posted.  One of the goals Jeff, Larry and Steve have is the start weekly training nets to help make sure training is up to date and we all general idea on what we need to do if we are activated for any emergency.  The page will have a post that will include the training information that will be discussed on the net that night with links to all the training materials online in our data base.

 

The page has a automatic refresh encoded into that will automatically refresh the page every ten (10) minutes.  As new information is added the page will reflect this.  The blog / post archive will be labeled and stored in according to the topic thus allowing retrieval at any time.  So if anyone misses a training net that information will be available at any time by researching the archive. 

 

Please feel free to look at the new page and leave us feed back on what you think and anything else you would like to see added.

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Moe Brewer  N4CQW
Anderson County Assistant EC
n4cqw@etskywarn.org
Webmaster for www.etskywarn.org and http://www.w4aca.org
Webmaster for the blogs of http://w4aca.blogspot.com and http://etskywarn.blogspot.com