Image Courtesy KFØBFUWichita AmRRon members joined the WØVFW Radio Club on 4/24/21 to “activate” Cheney State Park (K-2331) for a Parks on the Air ® (POTA) event. POTA is a popular outdoor activity for HAM operators across the country to practice their skills and promote emergency awareness and communications from national/federal and state/provincial level parks. Visit […]
PrepperNet holds a daily net (M-F) at 16:00 UTC and (T-F) at 01:00 UTC. The net is pretty informal with AMCON Level, announcements, checkins, then open floor. Join us on your DMR radio for some interesting conversation of interest to preppers. Brandmeister TG 3176723 TGIF Backup TG1776
I’ve recently begun listing to the police scanner on my newly acquired Uniden BCD396XT TrunkTracker IV. I’ve wanted to enhance my prep gear for quite a while with a police scanner, but they were just too expensive for me. Those in my price range were older units that did not receive the newer P-25 digital […]
Members of the WØVFW Radio Club gathered together for a “show and tell” activity on 2/20/21 at a local Spangles restaurant to show off their latest projects. KEØVIL (Bill) brought along his home built HF “slinky” 40 meter dipole antenna. Along with the tripod for raising the antenna to about 9 ft., Bill says he […]
The latest addition to my shack is the Icom IC-2730A dual band 50 Watt radio. The main reason I purchased this radio was the cross band repeater function. With this feature enabled I am able to be on a low power HT anywhere in my neighborhood (1 mile radius) transmitting to my base station (70cm […]
NOAA Weather Radio broadcasts National Weather Service (NWS) warnings, watches, forecasts, and other non-weather related hazard information 24 hours a day. During an emergency, NWS sends a special tone that activates weather radios in the listening area. Weather radios equipped with a special alarm tone feature can sound an alert and give you immediate information […]