Updated Friday March 27, 2020 Canceled WCARES and related events Due to concerns over the potential risk of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) infection spread by group gatherings, our EC, Ed Hudgens, WB4RHQ has made the decision to cancel the March 21st monthly meeting. Self-isolation is currently considered a best-practice for reducing the risk of infection and […]

A reminder that today, Saturday, March 7th at 1PM, county sirens will be tested. All members are asked to sign up to monitor and report on this test. Please refer to the WCARES Notes e-mail you received last week: Please consider participating in the monthly county siren test at 1 pm on the 7th. The […]

Mar 4, 2020 – As a part of the new Plant The Seed initiative by the Delta Division of the ARRL to get ARRL publications in libraries, the Williamson County Amateur Radio Emergency Service (WCARES) donated and presented an ARRL Library Book Set to Sheila Taylor KI4IBX and Sharon Reily of the main branch of […]

The WCARES Technician and General license classes for 2020 wrapped up over the weekend. Thank-you to all of the students and teachers who took part. The next Nashville VE Team exam session is March 14th (on our calendar here.) See http://www.NashvilleVETeam.org/ for more information. You can also search for exam sessions in your area here:  […]

Dave, KI4PSR gave the Technical talk at the February Monthly Meeting with the first in a series of presentations on antenna tuners. In this first installment Dave covered the basics of antenna tuners and dispelled some myths (a tuner does not improve the radiation efficieny of the antenna.) An overview of reactance concepts, reactive matching […]