WICEN News

The  next  major  exercise is the annual "Hawkesbury Classic Pad-
dle", a 111km paddle down the Hawkesbury River, to be  held  next
weekend.   As this takes place under moonlight for the most part,
the safety of the paddlers is of  paramount  concern,  and  WICEN
provides  an  important communications net.  If you would like to
help out in this worthwhile  event,  then  please  contact  Kevin
VK2CKD.   If you have portable packet equipment, then so much the
better.

Following this event is the  WICEN  Co-ordinators  conference  at
Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, on the weekend of 29-30th Oc-
tober.  The conference will commence at 0930  Saturday,  and  the
programme will comprise lectures on the role of various positions
in the organisation together with various guest  speakers.   This
will  be followed by dinner in a local restaurant, and since Day-
light Saving is scheduled to start the morning after,  this  will
be  an  interesting  test  of  WICEN's  adaptability to losing an
hour's sleep under strenuous circumstances...  There  will  be  a
discussion  period after the dinner, followed by a short business
session on Sunday.  Due to the late posting  of  the  newsletter,
the  deadline for registration has been extended to Thursday 20th
October i.e. this coming Thursday; full  details  will  be  found
within  the  newsletter,  and please note that a pre-registration
fee of $10 should accompany your application.

WICEN is always looking for members to provide the community with
communications assistance.  Write to WICEN (NSW) Inc, PO Box 123,
St Leonards 2065 for further information, or come up  on  one  of
the  WICEN nets: Blue Mountains on the first Monday of each month
at 8.30pm on channel  7175  simplex,  Hunter  each  Wednesday  at
7.30pm  on  channel  6900,  Northern Rivers each Wednesday at 8pm
around 3610 kHz, Central Coast each Thursday at 8.30pm on channel
7125,  and  Sydney each Thursday at 9.30pm on channels 7150/8275.
If there are any other regular nets then we'd like to hear  about
them.

WICEN  (NSW)  Inc. operates a telephone BBS, and it is accessible
at speeds from 300 to 14,400 bps on (02) 888-2763.  Brett  VK2XMU
is  the  "Sysop",  and all listeners are invited to use it.  Many
programs, such as "virus scanners" and "PGP", are  available  for
downloading.

-- Dave VK2KFU, WICEN (NSW) Inc. Publicity Officer