CARGO will be setup with a demo station and information on what the hobby is all about, along with several other campus organizations. We hope to see you there!

The Catamount Amateur Radio Group will be presenting on Atmospheric Stratification of Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes (TGFs) and Capture of Electromagnetic Phenomenon in the Southern Appellation Mountain Region tomorrow under the direction of one of our own- Michele Coke, KK4NRB.

We will be in the Catamount Room, in the University Center on WCU’s Campus. The presentation will begin at 12:30PM. For those of you familiar with our regular meeting room (the Dogwood Room), the Catamount Room is right down the hall.

Hope to see you all there!

Our Next Club Meeting will be on Thursday March 21, 2013. This meeting is a week early due to spring break at the university. The meeting will take place at 7PM in the ROGERS ROOM at the University Center, on WCU’s campus.

Talk in will be on the club repeater (K4WCU 444.975+ 131.8) or by phone, 828.5151.HAM. See Y’all there!

The K4WCU Repeater is offline due to a power surge/loss on campus. Our Trustee is aware of the situation, and we hope the repeater will return to the air shortly. See this post for further updates.

**UPDATE: Repeater is back online. Thanks all for staying tuned!

Our Next Balloon Launch will be coming up on Saturday February 16, 2013. We are expecting to beging assembly and launch of the balloon around 8AM, at the Jackson County Airport.

We are still looking for people who are interested in assisting with chasing and recovering the balloon. If you are interested in attending the launch, please contact us, by means of our contact us page. We will all be monitoring the K4WCU Repeater saturday morning, and be using IRLP reflector 9444 as our central hub for communications.

We will be using the same APRS Callsign of K4WCU-11, and using the same beacon frequency and recovery equipment. We hope that if you cannot attend the launch, you will follow and listen along! Thanks to all of you who have interest in this project.

UPDATE: Launch Rescheduled due to launch issues. Look for us again on April 27.

Our Next Club meeting will be held on Thursday February 28, 2013, in the Dogwood Room, which is housed inside the University Center on Campus. At this time we should be having a small presentation on participation in public service events.

Talk in will be on the club repeater (K4WCU) 444.975+ 100.0, or by calling us- (828) 5151 HAM. Hope to see you all there!

Thomas Witherspoon will be speaking Tuesday (Feb 12), at 2PM in the UC Theatre. Thomas, K4SWL, founded a non-profit organization called Ears To Our World. ETOW donates self powered Shortwave radios to people all around the world.

His presentation should prove to be a good one, if you are interested, we hope to see you there.

The W3WDD EchoIRLP Node has been moved to the K4WCU Repeater. You can connect to this node by dialing 8755 on IRLP or 789963 on EchoLink. Our Nets will now meet on the 444.975 K4WCU Machine Primarily with extended coverage to the K4RCC 444.875 Machine VIA IRLP.

Much Thanks to Russ, K4RCC for his work on troubleshooting the machine with us, as we worked to get the IRLP node Active on the new machine.

The EchoIRLP node is an open system, and we welcome everyone to use it!

The Tone on the K4WCU repeater has been changed from 131.8 to 100.0.

The replacement of this tone will help keep out unwanted interference and allow an IRLP node to function on the club repeater. We will hold our net this week on the 700 one more time before moving the IRLP node to the K4WCU machine. After this week our nets will be moved to the K4WCU Machine Primarily, and stil take place VIA IRLP to the K4RCC 875 Repeater.

We will make a reminder announcement during our coming meeting, on the 24th.

Welcome Back Catamounts! We will have our first meeting of the new year on Thursday January 24, 2013, at 7PM in the Dogwood Room of the University Center. We are hoping to have a program on how to use IRLP (The Internet Radio Linking Project) and what it can do!

Talk in is on the 444.975+ 131.8 Repeater (K4WCU), or call us at (828) 5151-HAM.