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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 2012 are:
Vice President- Glen Moses- KD4MOE, President- Phil Prichard- KC4JIY, Secretary- Tracy Carter- KA4JPB, Treasurer- Chuck Burris- K4CTB
If you would like to contact one of the folks above,
Please send an email to kg4fzr@yahoo.com
and include in the Subject line
who the mail is for, such as To MCARC President, etc.
The mail will be forwarded to the intended recipient.
The club uses the following frequencies:
| MCARC AREA REPEATER STATUS
(ALL REPEATERS CARRY THE CALLSIGN OF KG4FZR) |
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| 145.150 (-) 141.3 (Machine and Coordination Donated to MCARC by Dick Jones, W4RJC) (LINKED!) | No Pone, Decatur, TN | OPERATIONAL |
| 147.060 (-) 141.3 (Machine and
Coordination Donated to MCARC by John Fridley, KF4PVQ)
(SKYWARN) (LINKED!) |
Athens, TN | OPERATIONAL |
| 442.275 (+) 141.3 | Athens, TN |
OPERATIONAL |
| 443.275 (+) 100.0 (Club sponsored & owned for the use of our friends in Meigs County.) | No Pone, Decatur, TN | OPERATIONAL |
| 442.325 (+) 141.3 |
Etowah, TN |
OPERATIONAL, See Note Below |
The 442.325 corrently is operating on
split antennas, as the one on top of the tower
is bad. It will be replaced in the near future.
You can view the history of
the MCARC repeaters at http://www.mcminnarc.com/info/rptr_history.html
The
147.060(-)141.3 Athens and 145.150 (-) 141.3 No Pone are now
linked together.
Use either one and be heard on both.
Please
use the one closest to you, or that works best for
you.
Other 2M frequencies we use are 147.510
(141.3), 146.520, and 146.580,
all simplex.
Click "here" to download a pdf file of
listed MCARC frequencies and a suggestion for programming
order.
The MCARC would like to
thank Volunteer Electric Cooperation,
Athens
Utilities
Board, and Mr. Jon Eaves for giving us space on their
towers!
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 WIDEn-N/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.
MCARC is also active on packet frequency 145.550.
The club shack operates 24/7 as KG4FZR-10 WL2K RMS packet
Server, MCARC digi, and KG4FZR-7 Node.
145.550 serves as the TN Homeland Security District 3 packet
frequency.
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 147.060
(-) 141.3 tone repeater,
and the 442.275 (+) 141.3
net follows the close of the 2 meter net.
Check in with us often!
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The MCARC maintains a
email list that we use to email club
announcements, updates to website, for trade or
sale items. It is run by HUMANS! Want to receive the
emails? NOTE: There is one
rule.... DO NOT include us in your "forward" list!
We do not need every cute picture or funny story. |