Dec 2020 Virtual Monthly Meeting: DMR, ARES in TN, Winter FD, POTA and Shack Tour!
Our EC, Ed WB4RHQ reported we had a record 63 attendees for this, the final Virtual Monthly Meeting of 2020 and he wished all a happy and safe holiday season. Thanks to everyone who took the time to join in for a great set of presentations.
DMR in Williamson Co. – Hilton Dean, W4GHD
Williamson Co. will be adding 2 DMR nodes on Tuesday, December 22, 2020:
- Trinity site(*)
- Century Court where the WCARES 444.025MHz hub is located
Thanks to Bill Jorgenson and the Office of Public Safety and also to Andrew Gossett, AK4FA who got the boards programmed. Look for upcoming e-mail with more details.
* The WC4EOC-9 UHF antenna will be used for the Trinity site DMR so WC4EOC-9 will be offline until another antenna can be added to this tower, likely in 2021.
Winter Field Day – Cliff Batson (N4CCB)
- We are very fortunate that the Winter Field Day organizers will allow aggregation of scores like the ARRL did for Field Day in June. So everyone who includes the same group name will get their scores aggregated for a combined group score. You’ll need to decide how adventurous you want to be. Running off mains from inside your house with 100W on SSB and getting 100 QSOs would get you 200 points; running outside on batteries or a generator would get you 3200 points for those same QSOs. Something to think about! Cliff will have much more to say in the January meeting.
Presentations & Shack Tour!
The State of ARES in TN – Jim Snyder, AJ4NO, Tennessee Section Emergency Coordinator
Jim generously provided a copy of his presentation as well; you can read the PDF version here.
Parks On The Air – Tom Suggs N4MTE
and Tom generously provided a copy of his presentation so check this out as well:
Parks on the Air – WCARES Presentation by Tom, N4MTE
Virtual Shack Tour – Doug Miller (W4DML)
You can find videos of past meetings on the WCARES Media channel on Youtube .