You are invited to Amateur Radio Roundtable, a new series of W5KUB.com live weekly webcasts. The webcast is every Tuesday night at 8:00 PM CDT (0100 UTC Wednesdays) at http://www.W5KUB.com.

Amateur Radio Roundtable is an informal discussion of all aspects of ham radio with the intent of allowing viewers to watch this live webcast at W5KUB.com. A question and answer session with viewers will follow each topic.

The show covers all aspects of ham radio; such as, balloon launches, satellite, go-kits, emergency communications, SDR, digital modes, DXing, home brewing, and much more.

To watch Amateur Radio Roundtable go to W5KUB.com, click on Live Events and sign in with your existing User Name and Password. If you don’t have a user name and password, just enter your call or name, leave the password blank and hit sign in.

During the last half of the roundtable, viewers are invited to be a guest and make a virtual appearance on the show. Guests will need a Google+ account, microphone, and camera. A link allowing you to join will be provided during the show. This part of the show is very informal; you can just pop in to say hello, or stay a while and join in on a wide range of topics. Google Hangout will allow up to 10 people at a time.

We need your help with topics. If you have a specific subject that you would like to present in a future show, send an email to tom@W5KUB.com.

Join us for fun and interesting ham radio discussions. We’ll see you on the webcast!

Tom Medlin, W5KUB

On March 14, 2015, Jim Fergusson (KC9VKV) reached out to the WCARES repeater system via Echolink from his home in New Albany, IN. Some of you who were listening that day may have heard his story as a man who spent his whole life fulfilling his childhood dream to become a radio broadcaster.

Jim documents 50 years of his life as a broadcaster with actual audio recordings from 1956 (when he was 12 years old and had a 5-watt pirate broadcasting station) onward, culminating in his becoming the production director for a major 50 Kilowatt AM broadcast facility.

He has spent several years putting this extensive documentary together, which can be accessed here.
Thank you, Jim, for reaching out to the WCARES repeater system and letting us in on your story.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/f1BgzIZRfT8?feature=player_embedded

Four months after the 1912 Titanic disaster, Congress passed the first law ..

Click here for the story

Steve, N4YOU, recommends the following repeater database that is superimposed on Google Maps. Searches can be conducted by zip code or city.
http://k5ehx.net/

Click here to see a report showing the essential part that amateur radio played in rescue operations in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Hamnet at the The Heart of Texas Amateur Radio Club
http://www.hotarc.org/mesh.html

Hamnet in support of the Big Bend 50 Ultra Marathon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LN8gMgz2pA

Raspberry wifi HSMM-MESH node emergency cloud server
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMYrFmuclOQ
revisited
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGtwVxZ4Mto