Our Next Balloon Launch will be coming up on Saturday April 27, 2013. We are expecting to beging assembly and launch of the balloon around 9AM, 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.

The Catamount Amateur Radio Group will be helping to sponsor WCU’s Relay for Life this year. We would like to encourage everyone to go out and support this event! It will run from about 6PM, Friday April 12, to 6AM Saturday April 13.

Hope to see you all there!

Hey all, our next club meeting will be held on April 25, 2013, at 7PM in the Cardinal Room inside the University Center. We will have a short program on successful net controlling.

Talk in will be on the K4WCU 444.975+ 100.0 as well as by phone. (828) 5151.HAM.

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.