Our EC, Ed Hudgens, WB4RHQ did a presentation on the Task Book, training and WCARES membership requirements during the June Virtual Monthly Meeting. You can find a copy of Ed’s presentation here: https://wcares.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/WCARES-Task-Book-and-Training-Requirements.pdf Cliff gave a detailed overview of the plans for Field Day – look for details in the WCARES Notes e-mails.

Tim, AD4CJ talks about how to get the most out the sensitive receivers in most modern HF transceivers. https://youtu.be/8cUUvxnGM4w In this video, Tim covers: how to fine tune how to zero-beat phone and cw signals automatic gain control (AGC) the RF-gain control pre-amps and attenuators noise-reducer and noise-blanker circuits

From the ARRL Task Book introduction… The Task Book is a working document that enable those ARES communicators electing to participate in the ARRL training plan, to track and document their training plan elements as they are completed toward the various levels of increasing proficiency. As an ARES organization, WCARES will be using the Task […]

Results are in and N4FR took 7th place in the Outdoor category with a calculated score of 24815! You can find all the results here: https://www.winterfieldday.com/wfd-2020 Congratulations to everyone who took part! Another Winter Field Day is done – thank’s to all who participated! And thanks to Jon, Cliff and Ed for the photographs included […]

Thanks to Tim, AD4CJ for this post and Cliff, N4CCB for the photos. Operator in the pictures is Hunter Mills, K3IE. Hunter is also the Tennessee Contest Group president. You can learn more about TCG here: http://k4tcg.org/ . Full results are in the May, 2020 issue of QST on pages 72 and 73. The results […]