Roane County Amateur Radio Club
Uniting The World Through Amateur Radio
The Roane County Amateur Radio Club will again be participating in the annual ARRL Field Day event. We will be located at Fort Southwest Point park located South Kentucky Street in Kingston, TN.
Setup for our station will begin around 10am on Saturday with on-the-air operations beginning at 2pm. We’ll operate for approximately 24 hours before ending at 2pm on Sunday.
Talk-in on the 147.015 MHz + (110.9 pl) KE4RX repeater.
Kenny Witt, KC4OJS provided a lecture and discussion regarding APRS, it’s uses for day to day operations and emcomm applications. Kenny also discussed with the group his time in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria while deployed as a communications unit with the Southern Baptist Disaster Relief.
Many thanks to Kenny for making the trip up to our meeting to provide this discussion!
This weekend (June 24-25) is Field Day 2017!
Come out and visit us at Fort Southwest Point in Kingston. Setup will begin around 10 am on Saturday with on-the-air operations starting at 2 pm. We’ll operate for about 24 hours, ending around 2 pm on Sunday.
Talk-in on the 147.120 + 82.5 pl K4EAJ repeater.
June 24-25, 2017The Roane County Amateur Radio Club will again be participating in the annual ARRL Field Day event. We will be located at Fort Southwest Point park located South Kentucky Street in Kingston, TN.
Setup for our station will begin around 10am on Saturday with on-the-air operations beginning at 2pm. We’ll operate for approximately 24 hours before ending at 2pm on Sunday.
Congratulations to the newly elected officers for 2017!
Sterling Edmunds, N4VAV – President
Cliff Segar, KD4GT – Vice President
Lee Grace, KM4AKE – Secretary
Jim White, K4APY – Treasurer
Please join us at our monthly meetings on the second Thursday of every month at the Rockwood Community Center, 7 pm.
Also join us for the weekly net on the 147.120 repeater (147.015 after antenna repairs are made) every Monday at 8 pm.
There have been many great conversations on several of our repeaters, feel free to join in or throw your callsign out if there isn’t a QSO going on!