What a great time we had! It might have been only an “overnighter”, but we had a blast. I hope we go for two nights next year! From the CCARC page: http://www.wv8ccc.org/?page_id=47 The Coal Country Amateur Radio Club ventured out into the Mountain Tops of Wild and Wonderful West Virginia for a 24 hour mini-expedition, […]
After much preparation and deliberation, we have the equipment necessary to setup the Boone County Fire Fighter’s Mutual Aid Association Repeater at the Cazy Mountain location. We traveled to the site and raised the antenna and power pole. After testing the new antenna at elevation, we found this site to be a viable solution for […]
Field Day 2014 was my very first ARRL Field Day event. After previously working a lot of contacts during different ARRL events, the Field Day event was highly anticipated by myself and the rest of the Club. We organized everything pretty well. From press releases to invitation to elected officials, we had all of the […]
22 December 2013 Today, we trekked to the area locally known as “Cazy”, more precisely the “West Cazy” area of Pond Fork, Boone County, West Virginia in an effort to help the Boone County Firefighter’s Mutual Aid Association find a suitable location for a VHF repeater/antenna. The proposed site location is owned by Alpha Natural […]
I’ve noticed an incredible decrease in 10 meter activity since the latest ARRL contest concluded (December 2013). Since I am new to Amateur Radio DX (not 11 meter), I was thinking this is probably the norm. Just an observation based on typical human psychology really, but I would assume it’s normal for the airwaves to […]
