Due to on-going storm recovery, the Public Safety Center EOC is still in partial activation (3). As such, the room will NOT be available for the WCARES Monthly meeting on Saturday Feb 14 so the meeting will be conducted over ZOOM. Details will be sent out this week in Discord and e-mail.
Would you like to easily learn about our WCARES DISCORD Channel? The Discord server has been nicely enhanced and organized for greater application to the WCARES group and beyond. At the January 18th WCARES Meeting, Ryan KN4VKW and Blake KN4VKY Pearson give us an update on DISCORD and all it can do for you.
This video was shown at the WCARES January monthly meeting. It was put together as a teaching tool for those working SSB using an Icom IC-7600 at WCARES Field Days.
If you operate on HF frequencies, you very likely have encountered Radio Frequency Interference from some electrical device in your house or outside your house. It can be broadband noise, raising the noise floor, making the copying of any signal very difficult. Or it can be specific frequency noise you can avoid by tuning away ten or twenty Hertz from the frequency-specific noise. WCARES member Paul Havlik (WD9IOK) has dealt with a particularly challenging and protracted RFI incident, and he takes us through all the twists and turns associated with its identification and mitigation.
Recorded at the WCARES monthly meeting in December of 2025.
Learn how to buy a low-cost SDR and set up a wonderful web-based receiver. OpenWebRX web-based SDR receiver is a slightly different technology with a similarly fun capability, and it’s even designed to decode multiple types of signals… including FT8. Jeff Henry KG4ZIE has put one on his desktop and is excited to tell us all about it.
Recorded at the WCARES monthly meeting in November of 2025.
The WCARES Monthly Meeting takes place the 3rd Saturday of every month with the possible exceptions of May (Hamvention) or August (Huntsville Hamfest) in which case it is held on the 2nd Saturday to allow members to attend those events.
We meet at the Williamson County Public Safety Center (PSC), located at:
304 Beasley Drive in Franklin, TN.
If you’ve struggled telling someone how to find 304 Beasley Drive, the PSC is set back off of Beasley and you can’t see the PSC building very well from Beasley. A hint: have folks turn at the blue sign, “CHARLES R MEEK Dr.”
Meeting starts at 8AM in the EOC. Members periodically give presentations covering a wide range topics including emergency communications, propagation and antennas, operating techniques and best-practices, kit building, hardware and software, Winlink, weather, ARRL, new modes and more. Upcoming events are also discussed.
Meet other WCARES members and learn more about WCARES and Amateur Radio.
Note there will also be a Planning Committee meeting.
The WCARES Monthly Meeting takes place the 3rd Saturday of every month with the possible exceptions of May (Hamvention) or August (Huntsville Hamfest) in which case it is held on the 2nd Saturday to allow members to attend those events.
We meet at the Williamson County Public Safety Center (PSC), located at:
304 Beasley Drive in Franklin, TN.
If you’ve struggled telling someone how to find 304 Beasley Drive, the PSC is set back off of Beasley and you can’t see the PSC building very well from Beasley. A hint: have folks turn at the blue sign, “CHARLES R MEEK Dr.”
Meeting starts at 8AM in the EOC. Members periodically give presentations covering a wide range topics including emergency communications, propagation and antennas, operating techniques and best-practices, kit building, hardware and software, Winlink, weather, ARRL, new modes and more. Upcoming events are also discussed.
Meet other WCARES members and learn more about WCARES and Amateur Radio.
Featured Presentation:
The WCARES Monthly Meeting takes place the 3rd Saturday of every month with the possible exceptions of May (Hamvention) or August (Huntsville Hamfest) in which case it is held on the 2nd Saturday to allow members to attend those events.
We meet at the Williamson County Public Safety Center (PSC), located at:
304 Beasley Drive in Franklin, TN.
If you’ve struggled telling someone how to find 304 Beasley Drive, the PSC is set back off of Beasley and you can’t see the PSC building very well from Beasley. A hint: have folks turn at the blue sign, “CHARLES R MEEK Dr.”
Meeting starts at 8AM in the EOC. Members periodically give presentations covering a wide range topics including emergency communications, propagation and antennas, operating techniques and best-practices, kit building, hardware and software, Winlink, weather, ARRL, new modes and more. Upcoming events are also discussed.
Meet other WCARES members and learn more about WCARES and Amateur Radio.
Note there will also be a Planning Committee meeting.
The WCARES Monthly Meeting takes place the 3rd Saturday of every month with the possible exceptions of May (Hamvention) or August (Huntsville Hamfest) in which case it is held on the 2nd Saturday to allow members to attend those events.
We meet at the Williamson County Public Safety Center (PSC), located at:
304 Beasley Drive in Franklin, TN.
If you’ve struggled telling someone how to find 304 Beasley Drive, the PSC is set back off of Beasley and you can’t see the PSC building very well from Beasley. A hint: have folks turn at the blue sign, “CHARLES R MEEK Dr.”
Meeting starts at 8AM in the EOC. Members periodically give presentations covering a wide range topics including emergency communications, propagation and antennas, operating techniques and best-practices, kit building, hardware and software, Winlink, weather, ARRL, new modes and more. Upcoming events are also discussed.
Meet other WCARES members and learn more about WCARES and Amateur Radio.
This year, the August meeting will be on the 15th.
Featured Presentation:
ARES Presentation:
The WCARES Monthly Meeting takes place the 3rd Saturday of every month with the possible exceptions of May (Hamvention) or August (Huntsville Hamfest) in which case it is held on the 2nd Saturday to allow members to attend those events. This year, the August meeting will be on the 15th.
We meet at the Williamson County Public Safety Center (PSC), located at:
304 Beasley Drive in Franklin, TN.
If you’ve struggled telling someone how to find 304 Beasley Drive, the PSC is set back off of Beasley and you can’t see the PSC building very well from Beasley. A hint: have folks turn at the blue sign, “CHARLES R MEEK Dr.”
Meeting starts at 8AM in the EOC. Members periodically give presentations covering a wide range topics including emergency communications, propagation and antennas, operating techniques and best-practices, kit building, hardware and software, Winlink, weather, ARRL, new modes and more. Upcoming events are also discussed.
Meet other WCARES members and learn more about WCARES and Amateur Radio.