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McMinn County Amateur Radio Club, Inc.Information |
The McMinn County Amateur Radio Club, Inc. serves
the
McMinn County area.
The club maintains a club station at the
Athens EOC with club call KG4FZR.
Additional non-club stations are located at
the McMinn County 911 Center, Athens Regional Hospital and Woods
Memorial Hospital.
We also support the Rogers
Creek School Amateur Radio Station!
Regular monthly MCARC meetings are held the 2nd Monday of each month at the Athens City Hall at 7:00 PM. All are welcome!
The club officers for 2008 are:
President,
Wade Smith,
Jr.-KI4IQA
Vice President, Don Shane-K4DLS
Secretary, Evan Ray-WA4PNI
Treasurer, Lynn McConkey-WA4JTD
Women's Auxilary, Barbara McConkey-KI4IPZ
The club uses the following frequencies:
| MCARC AREA REPEATER STATUS |
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| 145.310 (-) 141.3 WA4PNI, in Madsionville, TN, with remote receivers in Decatur and Athens. (Club sponsored & owned) | OPERATIONAL |
| 145.150 (-) 141.3 KG4FZR, next to WJSQ, Athens, TN (Club sponsored & owned) | OPERATIONAL |
| 442.275 (+) 141.3 KG4FZR, next to WJSQ, Athens, TN (Club sponsored & owned) | OPERATIONAL |
| 443.275(+)100.0 KG4FZR No Pone, Decatur, TN (Club sponsored & owned for the use of our friends in Meigs County.) | OPERATIONAL |
| 147.060 (-) 141.3 KF4PVQ, next to WJSQ, Athens, TN (Privately owned, open to public) | OPERATIONAL |
| 224.300 (-) 141.3 KF4PVQ, next to WJSQ, Athens, TN (Privately owned, open to public) | OPERATIONAL |
Simplex frequencies monitored/ used by club members
are
146.520,
146.580, 446.000, & 446.100.
We also use 147.510 (141.3 tone)
simplex as a general ragchew frequency.
(Some "night owls" are on as late
as midnight!)
Some HF frequencies we frequent are (nightly) 1.939 (7-8ET PM) & 28.587 (8-9ET PM) and (mornings) 3.980.
The MCARC club station also operates as "KG4FZR-7"
on APRS with digipeater!
Look for our call and the "EOC" symbol in East
Tennessee.
IMPORTANT
NOTE ABOUT OUR DIGI!
THE KG4FZR-7 DIGI is a WIDE1-1/TNn-n
digi &
IS A LIMITED TWO-WAY IGATE.
IT ALSO GATES LOCAL SEVERE WEATHER RELATED DATA TO THE RF SIDE OF APRS.
WE HAVE AN APRS SECTION ON OUR WEBSITE IF YOU NEED SETUP HELP.
The club members are active in ARES, RACES, Skywarn,
MARS and
participates
when requested in civic duties,
such as JOTA for the Boy Scouts,
the Athens Christmas
Parade, Watts Bar Nuclear Plant drills,
as well as other activities.
Regular Phone nets are held
each
and every Monday evening at 8:30 PM on the 145.310 repeater
and the 442.275 net follows the
close of the 2 meter net.
Check in with us often!