Photographs from WCARES Field Day 2025 taken by Joe Marler, KQ1Q and Dave Rogers, W4DER – thanks guys!
This year included CW and SSB stations as well as GOTA and we were grateful for the use of the climate controlled Williamson County EMA Communications Trailer!
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Hilton Dean (W4GHD) has achieved the DX Honor Roll, having racked up 331 DX Entities! In this video, Hilton talks about his twenty-year journey working DX. Along the way, he provides helpful information for any ham interested in chasing DX and other awards.
Recorded at the WCARES monthly meeting on September 20th, 2025.
Ted Edwards (W3TB) has held a number of ham licenses, both in the United States and abroad. In this presentation, he recalls the many licenses he’s held and the situations in his life at the time of each license. This presentation was recorded during the WCARES monthly meeting in August 2025.
Laura Marler (N4CLO) presents how the MTEARS Skywarn Net is organized and how it operates. Her presentation was recorded at the WCARES monthly meeting in August 2025.
Tim Kreth (AD4CJ) teaches us about HF Propagation. Tim teaches this topic each February during the WCARES series of classes designed to help hams with a Technician license upgrade to the General class license. Presentation recorded during the July, 2025 WCARES monthly meeting.
Fall is just around the corner, and that means the WCARES 2025 Simulated Emergency Test (SET) is coming up!
Please mark your calendars for the morning of Saturday, October 11th and plan to take part in this important exercise.
This is a great opportunity to test your equipment, sharpen your skills, and gain valuable experience. This year, we’ll be working alongside the Williamson County EMA and their world-class team and resources.
A signup link is included below. The more participants we have, the more effective—and fun—the exercise will be! Additional details will be shared as we get closer to the date. Feel free to email me with any questions you may have
WCARES is pleased to announce that a new version of the WCARES Emergency Operations Plan has been posted to the website. Special thanks to Jeff KC1DWP, former WCARES EC, who led a multi-month effort to update the document, which was last dated 2018. Thanks, too, to Laura N4CLO who reportedly ran the revised draft through an AI engine to further improve the wording and clarity. Many others were involved in the update, and thanks to them as well.
You can find the link to the updated WCARES Emergency Operations Plan in the right-hand sidebar of the website, in the Library & Special Interests section under Books, References, Guides and in the Members Area navigation menu when you are logged in to the site.
Joshua Walter, Operations Manager for the Williamson County EMA, provides an excellent overview of Emergency Management and how it works to coordinate responses among all local partners.
Recorded May 10th, 2025, at the WCARES Monthly Meeting.
