Williamsburg Area Amateur Radio Club

WAARC/K4RC

Welcome!

We are a general interest radio club in Williamsburg, VA. Located near the historic triangle of Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown.

Here in the southeast portion of the "Old Dominion", club members participate in a variety of activities, including chasing Dx, contesting, and public service.

About the club

Welcome to the Williamsburg Area Amateur Radio Club. The club was founded in 1977. While an amateur license is required for full voting membership in the club, unlicensed individuals are invited to join as associate members. The Williamsburg Area Club is affiliated with the American Radio Relay League, the national association of amateur radio operators.

Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of every month at 7:00 PM at the James City County Library at 7770 Croaker Road, Williamsburg. Regular programs of interest follow short business meetings, and is open to all Amateur Radio operators, friends, and families. Refreshments are served. Anyone with an interest in Amateur Radio is welcome and encouraged to attend.

On Wednesday evenings you are welcome to join or monitor the ARES net at 7:30 PM local time or the local repeater, 146.76 with a negative offset.

WAARC Email Reflector

If you want to keep up with the latest news, reminders, and messages, fill out the form at the bottom of this section. Or take a minute to follow this link to the WAARC Yahoo Group web page. Once you join the group, you will be able to send a message to all members of the group at once. Stop by and take a look. Our esteemed secretary will post the meeting minutes to the WAARC Yahoo Group web page in the days (or weeks) after the meetings.

WAARC Business

Meeting minutes are posted to the WAARC Yahoo Group website, and archived there. Once the Secretary uploads the minutes, the WAARC reflector automatically sends out an email with a notice to all group members that a file has been uploaded, where the file is, and what the name of the file is.

Additionally the email provides a link directly to the file. With a single click of the link, the file can be accessed. The member can review or print out the minutes. If any issues are noted, they can be brought up at the next club meeting and dealt with. Any changes that need to be made to the minutes can then be uploaded to the group.

Club Bylaws, approved Dec 12, 2007, can be accessed on the WAARC Yahoo Group website, in the files section, or by downloading the file WAARC.bylaws.20071211.pdf from this link.

From left to right, club President, Hershel L Kreis Jr (W4TMN), Director, David Wilburn (K4DGW), Vice President David Caywood (W9NNK), Treasurer, Ken Moorman (NU4I), and Secretary, Dan Ewart (WG4F). Click for larger image.

Local Weekly Nets

Williamsburg ARES Net - Every Wednesday 7:30 PM 146.76 MHz
Gloucester ARES/RACES Net - Every Thursday 8:00 PM 145.37 MHz
Saluda RAP-ARES Net - Every Tuesday 9:00 PM 145.45 MHz
D7 ARES / RACES Packet Net - Every Tuesday 8:15PM KR4MA-1
W4ZA Packet Net - Every Wednesday 8:15PM W4ZA

Note: For those who will be helping during emergency events, these nets are a great way to brush the rust off of those packet skills, or to develop them if you would like to. If you are interested in logging into these nets, contact k4dgw@k4rc.net.

KB4ZIN Repeaters

146.760 MHz (- offset) Skywarn Repeater
147.105 MHz (+ offset) IRLP Repeater
444.100 MHz (+ offset) Local UHF Machine
Repeaters owned by Jim Baily (KB4ZIN), pictured below at the repeater site. Thanks for the use of the great boxes Jim!

Maintained by Chris Courson (KC4CMR) Wmbg/JCC Emergency Coordinator.
John Magda (KB4YFK) is the "illustrious keeper of the bits" for the IRLP machine.

Winlink 2000

If you are interested in Enhanced Digital Messaging for Amateur Radio, how to use it, and how to access it via the extensive packet network here in Virginia, please contact dave.wilburn@gmail.com. There are quite a few ways to access the system locally, including a soon to be available node in Toano.