2nd Saturday of each month at 8AM at Red Cross building at 1101 Viking Dr in Jasper, AL.
147.390 Mhz with PL tone of 110.9 on Thursdays at 8PM. We also have a time for echolink checkins. You can find us on echolink by searching W4WCA or by entering node 993864. We also have a simplex net following our repeater net. The simplex net is on 147.435 Mhz usually around 8:20 or so. We also activate a Net it times of emergency or bad weather on our repeater.
147.390 Mhz w/PL tone 110.9
442.300 Mhz w/PL tone 110.9 Fusion
146.660 Mhz w/PL tone 110.9
Our purpose is to provide emergency communications in time of disaster or other emergency when all forms of communications are down.
We do testing for Technician, General, and Extra Licenses at each of our monthly meetings. We meet at 8AM on the 2nd Sat of each month, then our testing starts immediately following our meeting, usually around 9AM.
October 4th - Frog Festival in downtown Sumiton, Alabama. Come by and check out our booth
October 11th - 8:00am - Monthly Meeting at the Red Cross in Jasper. We also offer a test sesion following the meetin
If you are interested in taking your license test check out this video!
If you have not got your t-shirt ordered get with Jimmy Dill (NR4G) or Traci Burton (KN4ENH) to place order.
Traci's email is kn4enh@gmail.com.
What we are about at Walker County ARES.
We assist in helping local agencies communicate in times of emergencies. In the April 2011 tornadoes that hit Cordova, AL we had group members in fire, medic, and police vehicles riding along using ham radio to communicate for them because their communications were down.
Good video to check out on Emergency Communications.
Congratulations to Marlin Mayfield and Davida Goodwin for passing their Technician class License Exam after our September 2025 meeting.
Here is where we are located for meetings.