WA7ARC Radio Club

SHARES will run a separate, but parallel event on Field Day.  From 1800Z to 2100Z this coming Saturday, our voice national net controls will be monitoring the SHARES primary frequency and taking your check-ins from all SHARES members.  Whether you’re in the field for Field Day or at home we are opening our doors to the SHARES community for three hours this Saturday.

The annual WX4NHC On-the-Air Station Test from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami takes place Saturday, May 31, from 1300-2100 UTC...

As a disaster manager with many years of experience in the field and in the office, September 11, 2001, marked the end of an era for the American Red Cross in my humble opinion.  For most of the life of the organization, they had operated on donations which could be "spread out" to provide for the small, generally unknown, disasters which take place every day...

The WA7ARC Amateur Radio Club has received approval to begin testing of a new 2m repeater frequency on Nielton Point:  146.9600 MHz. We will be using a 100.0 Hz tone (CTCSS) for that node of the network.  The system is currently in simplex mode on this frequency, although the new repeater has been ordered and I've been told it will ship on 1/9/08 - we anticipate having a working system on-line around 2/1/08.

Installed the new digi (NPDIGI) on Friday.  Appears to be working well...

Installed a new system-wide controller today, providing greater speed and agility.