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Take part in the May 31 – June 1 FEMA Communications Outage Exercise using Winlink

WCARES members are encouraged fire up Winlink and take part in the FEMA RECCWG Region 4 & Region 6 May 31-June 1 Communications Outage Exercise. For any WCARES members who take part, please CC WB5WAJ on your submitted exercise Winlink message. The linked PDF provides detailed step-by-step instructions. Some points to note from the PDF: […]

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Posted May 20th, 2022 by David, KK4CQD

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April 2022 In-Person & Virtual Monthly Meeting: MTEARS

Presentation by Tom Delker (K1KY). Tom talks about the MTEARS network… the Middle Tennessee Emergency Amateur Repeater System. This is a set of 34 linked repeaters that span most of the state of Tennessee.

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March 2022 In-Person & Virtual Monthly Meeting: VHF/UHF Sideband

In this comprehensive video, Paul, WD9IOK gives you all the information you need to get involved in 6 meters and up (VHF and UHF) operations using SSB mode. There’s more than just FM to play with in the higher frequencies of ham radio!

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February 2022 In-Person & Virtual Monthly Meeting: Maximize Your Signal Reception

For the February 2022 WCARES meeting, Tim, AD4CJ presents Maximize Your Signal Reception Learn how to adjust your HF radio to maximize your signal reception. Tim delivers a presentation based on a PowerPoint stack that he put together back in 2016. It was good advice then and it’s good advice now! 00:53 Mechanics of Fine-tuning […]

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WCARES upcoming Monthly Meetings and the website

The technical presentation for the February meeting will be a repeat of a great presentation Tim, AD4CJ gave back in 2016 on “Improving HF Reception”. The March 19th presentation will be “VHF/UHF SSB” by Paul, WD9IOK. The April presentation is to be about MTEARS ( mtears.org ) by Tom, K1KY. You can find these and […]

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A survey on all things ham radio

From our EC, Jeff Standifer, WB5WAJ: I found this interesting site this weekend. It is a survey on all things ham radio. I signed up and took it and overall it took about 1.5 hours. You can stop and resume as your time allows. I found it very interesting to look at the results. https://hamcensus.org/

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Williamson Co. Tennessee

WCARES Frequencies

 
Linked Repeaters
 

Franklin – UHF
444.025 MHz
PL 110.9 (+)

Franklin – VHF (FOW)
145.150 MHz
PL 123.0 (-)

Fairview – VHF
145.130 MHz
PL 156.7 (-)

Brentwood – VHF
145.210 MHz
PL 173.8 (-)

Kirkland – UHF
443.875 MHz
PL 107.2 (+)

 
DMR (more info)
 

WCCC - Century Court
440.5875 MHz +5

WCNO - Nolensville
440.6875 MHz +5

 
Simplex
 

VHF 146.505 MHz
UHF 446.000 MHz
Upcoming Events
  • May 31, 2022 17:00 - Jun 1, 2022 15:00
    FEMA Communications Outage Exercise using Winlink May 31 – June 1, 2022
  • Jun 18, 2022 08:00 - 10:00
    Monthly Meeting
  • Jun 20, 2022 19:30 - 19:45
    Alternet: 80m

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