Rick wrote: > Another group is the NREN (National Radio Emergency Network) which is a > kind of niche group that promotes the use of CW as the primary contact > resource for emergencies. They typically monitor 7050, 10.115, (some of > their info says 10.120) and 14050 as much as possible. If you were > operating portable with simple equipment it would almost have to be CW > to work with modest antennas and a couple of watts and they can take > message traffic out of normal net sequence.
NREN is basically defunct due to lack of interest and participation. According to Jim W8SIW on Apr. 4 2007, "Interest in the program was quite low, and the NREN concept evolved into essentially an auxiliary web page for QMN (albeit a very good one, thanks to Chuck, AA8VS)." -- 73 de Nick N2QZ Section Traffic Manager, Eastern New York Section Net Manager, NYS/E FISTS #11469 SKCC #1027
