Flint Hills Amateur Radio Club returned to Beaumont, Kansas on October 23, 2021 with a special event station (WØT) in honor of the Beaumont Historic Hotel. The city of Beaumont built a beautiful community center where we set up our base of operations. The community center represents an old Frisco Railroad depot that used to […]
Contesting may not be one of your favorite parts of amateur radio, but it can be useful to improve your amateur radio skills in case of emergency. The goal of Amateur Radio contesting is to contact as many stations as possible during the contest period. Contests regularly take place on the HF bands: 160, 80, […]
Tropical Storm Ida has been upgraded to a hurricane and is expected to bring “life-threatening storm surge inundation” to Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama later this weekend. It is expected to be an extremely dangerous major hurricane when it reaches the coast of Louisiana. Hurricane force winds are expected to begin Sunday with landfall occurring early […]
T-Rex … wow, was that a wild 48 hours? And, it wasn’t even real. I can’t imagine the chaos and confusion that would accompany a real world emergency. I’ve spoken to one person who experienced the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing in Oklahoma and he described overwhelming chaos and confusion. Another friend shared with […]
The goal of AmRRON is to connect people. Even though the average citizen is NOT an Amateur Radio operator, this is a way to build a layered communications network that includes them in a standardized method of being able to communicate with one another. Because this link-up protocol is being distributed among various circles, if […]
AmRRon will be holding its annual T-Rex exercise Friday through Sunday, August 6th, 7th, and 8th, 2021. This exercise is for anyone wishing to test their communications and disaster preparedness plan in a simulated nationwide cyber attack scenario-based training exercise using unconventional communications such as ham radio. Even those with limited radio capabilities will be […]