The Roane County Amateur Radio Club will meet tonight May 10th, 2012 at 7:00 pm in The Roane County Rescue Squad building, 2735 Roane State Highway, Harriman, TN. in the Midtown area just up from Lowes. I hope you all can make it and be sure to bring a friend.

The CASA Run For The Child is this coming Saturday May 12, 2012. Roane County ARES/DEC will be assisting with communciations for the event. For more information on Roane County ARES/DEC contact Bill Farnham KI4FZT bfarnham@utk.edu.

Finally, Dont’ forget that Field Day is June 23 and 24th 2012 and The Roane County Amateur Radio Club will participate in Field Day at Fort Southwest Point in Kingston behind the baseball field at the pavilion. Please make plans to attend.

Jim
K4APY

Hello Everyone.

Don’t forget the RCARC monthly meeting will be on Thursday March 8th at 7:00 pm in the Roane County Rescue Squad in Midtown. Come on down and be part of our group!!

Jim
k4apy@arrl.net

The Roane County Amateur Radio Club will meet on Thursday January 12th at 7:00 pm in The Roane County Rescue Squad Building 2735 Roane State Highway, Harriman, TN. It is in the Midtown area just across from the drive in theater. I hope everyone can make it and if
you have never been to one of our meetings before, let’s get
the new year started off right and come on down!! We
would love to meet you and always welcome new visitors and
members.
Talk In Frequency 147.015+ (PL 110.9)
C-ya
Jim
K4APY

What: RCARC Christmas Dinner / Meeting / Election of
officers for 2012
When: Thursday December 8th 2011
Pot Luck Dinner at 6:00 pm. RCARC will provide ham
and condiments. Everyone else bring a dish based on the last
letter of your callsign. For A through I, bring a salad; J
through R, a side dish; and S through Z, dessert. (Please rsvp
if your coming and bring a dish so we will have a head count!)
Meeting and election at 7:00 pm
Where: The Roane County Rescue Squad 2735 Roane State
Highway, Harriman, TN. It is in the Midtown area just across
from the drive in theater. We meet in the conference room
directly behind the United Way office.

ALL RCARC MEMBERS It Is Important that You Attend This Meeting!
This election determines our officers and the direction
our club takes for the next year. If you want to run for an
office feel free to send me or any club officer your request to
be placed on ballot. See the RCARC by laws on
www.ke4rx.org for qualifications to run for office.

Finally at Decembers meeting we begin taking renewals for
membership for the RCARC, so if your a Roane County
Amateur Radio Club member, don’t forget to renew in
December/January for the 2012 year. New members are
welcome to join anytime. Annual dues are still only $15 .
I hope to see y’all there!
Jim K4APY
k4apy@arrl.net

Hello Everyone

This coming Thursday November 10, 2011 at 7 PM. is the monthly meeting of The Roane County Amateur Radio Club at The Roane County Rescue Squad building in Midtown, TN. Try to come on down and meet with us. We don’t bite, we promise!! On the agenda is seeing who wants to run for club office for our next year and planning for the Christmas meeting and Dinner to be held on December 8th at The Rescue Squad Building probably about 6:00 pm, but we will see after this Thursday. If you want to run for a club office see the club bylaws on www.ke4rx.org for officer criteria.

See Y’all this Thursday
Jim
K4APY

Here is the September issue of The RCARC Beacon. The next RCARC club meeting is October 13th, 2011 @ 7:00 pm. Its early so make plans to come. C-ya

Jim
K4APY

I just want to remind folks that The Roane County Amateur Radio Club will meet on Thursday August 11th at 7:00 pm in the Roane County Rescue Squad building in Midtown. Come on down and meet folks who share a common interest in Amateur Radio.

Also the KE4RX repeater is back on the air alive and well on 147.015+ (pl 110.9). Thanks to Cliff Segar KD4GT, David Rogers KC4WGH, Jim Dalton K4FPG for all their hard work on the repeater and antennas and to Danny Britton KB4TEP for climbing the tower and installing the antennas for us! Great Job Y’all!

Click Here to View The RCARC Newsletter for July 2011

Sorry I’m running behind a bit with the newsletter.

I just want to remind folks that The Roane County Amateur Radio Club will meet on Thursday June 9th at 7:00 pm in the Roane County Rescue Squad building in Midtown. Come on down and meet folks who share a common interest in Amateur Radio.

RCARC will participate in Field Day on June 25 and 26 at The Fort Southwest Point park pavilliion in Kingston, TN. behind the baseball field. Everyone is welcome to attend. Come on by and support RCARC and check out our operation. Send me an e-mail if you need directions.

Finally Jim Dalton K4FPG told me that the Roane County VE exam that normally would be held on June 11th was going to be the following Saturday 6/18/11. If you want to schedule a Ham Exam, just send Keith Dalton an e-mail. Follow the link to the right for VE Testing.

I hope to see everyone Thursday night at the meeting.

Jim
K4APY

I just want to remind folks that The Roane County Amateur Radio Club will meet on Thursday May 12th at 7:00 pm in the Roane County Rescue Squad building in Midtown. Come on down and meet folks who share a common interest in Amateur Radio.

Don’t forget The Roane County Amateur Radio Club Monday Night Net will be on 147.120 (pl 82.5) tonight @ 8:00 pm. This is the backup frequency while KE4RX/r is down for repair. KE4RX/r should be back on the air soon.

Jim
K4APY

I just want to remind folks that The Roane County Amateur Radio Club will meet on Thursday April 14th at 7:00 pm in the Roane County Rescue Squad building in Midtown. Come on down and meet folks who share a common interest in Amateur Radio.

Don’t forget The Roane County Amateur Radio Club Monday Night Net will be on 147.120 (pl 82.5) Monday @ 8:00 pm. This is the backup frequency while KE4RX/r is down for repair. KE4RX/r should be back on the air soon on 147.015+ (pl 110.9).

Finally the Roane County VE team will offer amateur radio exams this Saturday April 9th at 9:00 am. Pre-registration is required. Contact Jim Dalton K4FPG or Keith Dalton WV4G to schedule your exam or information on taking an exam. See their contact information in the RCARC Newsletter or follow the link for VE testing to the right.

This coming Thursday March 10th @ 7:00 pm is the Roane County Amateur Radio Club monthly meeting. SKYWARN training by the National Weather Service in Morristown is on the agenda. Training begins promptly at 7:00 and the RCARC business meeting will follow. Training lasts about 2 hours. I hope everyone can attend!!

Jim
K4APY

RCARC meeting will be January 13th at 7:00 PM in The Roane County Rescue Squad building in Midtown. Y’all come on down!!

RCARC Newsletter 120110Here is December 2010 Roane County Amateur Radio Club Beacon newsletter. Don’t forget this Thursday December 9th is the RCARC meeting and Christmas Dinner at The Roane County Rescue Squad building in Midtown. Be there at 6:00 PM. for dinner and the meeting and election of officers will follow. C-ya there!!

Jim
K4APY

I’d like to let you know that the Monday Night net control schedule is online. Just click on “schedule” to the right to access it. If there are any problems, please send me an email and we will try to work something out.

If you have to miss your scheduled day unexpectedly, please contact myself or another person to run the net for you.

After membership applications are turned in and we built a club roster for 2011, we will make a new net schedule will all the members on it.

Thanks!

Cody, KI4FUV

canderson@ke4rx.org

Jim
K4APY

Dont’ forget The Roane County Amatuer Radio Club will meet at The Rescue Squad Building in Midtown on Thursday October 14th at 7:00 pm. Come on down and be part of the club!.

Jim
K4APY

It is published by Jim White, K4APY.

RCARC Newsletter 090110

Public Demonstration of Emergency Communications June 26 – 27

Kingston, TN. at Fort Southwest Point Pavilion. Roane County’s “hams” will join with thousands of Amateur Radio operators who will be showing off their emergency capabilities this weekend. Over the past year, the news has been full of reports of ham radio operators providing critical communications during unexpected emergencies in towns across America including the California wildfires, winter storms, tornadoes and other events worldwide.

During Hurricane Katrina, Amateur Radio – often called “Ham Radio” – was often the ONLY way people could communicate, and hundreds of volunteer “hams” traveled south to save lives and property. When trouble is brewing, Amateur Radio’s people are often the first to provide rescuers with critical information and communications.

On the weekend of June 26 – 27, the public will have a chance to meet and talk with Roane County ham radio operators and see for themselves what the Amateur Radio Service is about. Showing the newest digital and satellite capabilities, voice communications and even historical Morse code, hams from across the USA will be holding public demonstrations of emergency communications abilities.

This annual event, called “Field Day” is the climax of the week long “Amateur Radio Week” sponsored by the ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio. Using only emergency power supplies, ham operators will construct emergency stations in parks, shopping malls, schools and backyards around the country. Their slogan, “When All Else Fails, Ham Radio Works” is more than just words to the hams as they prove they can send messages in many forms without the use of phone systems, internet or any other infrastructure that can be compromised in a crisis. More than 35,000 amateur radio operators across the country participated in last year’s event.

We hope that people will come and see for themselves, this is not your grandfather’s radio anymore,” said Allen Pitts, W1AGP, of the ARRL. “The communications that ham radio people can quickly create have saved many lives when other systems failed or were overloaded. And besides that – it’s fun!”

In the Roane County area, the Roane County Amateur Radio Club will be demonstrating Amateur Radio at Southwest Point in Kingston, TN on June 26th 12 noon until June 27th at 2:00 pm.. They invite the public to come and see ham radio’s capabilities and learn how to get their own FCC radio license before the next disaster strikes.

There are over 650,000 Amateur Radio licensees in the US, and more than 2.5 million around the world.

Through the ARRL’s Amateur Radio Emergency Services program, ham volunteers provide emergency communications for thousands of state and local emergency response agencies, all for free.

To learn more about Amateur Radio, go to www.emergency-radio.org.

The public is most cordially invited to come, meet and talk with the hams. See what modern Amateur Radio can do. They can even help you get on the air!

If you did not receive the information, please email me and I will send you all the details. We are not giving out the URL to the system to help prevent spam.

Thanks for all you do! You can email me with questions.

Cody, KI4FUV