WALKER COUNTY ARES
Amateur Radio Group in Jasper, AL- W4WCA
Meetings: 2nd Saturday of each month at 8AM at Red Cross building at 1101 Viking Dr in Jasper, AL.
Nets: 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.
Repeaters
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
Purpose
Our purpose is to provide emergency communications in time of disaster or other emergency when all forms of communications are down.
Amateur Radio License Testing
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.
Upcoming Events
May 4th - Make-A-Wish Trailblaze Challenge 2024
June 22-23 - Field Day 2024
Needing volunteers for Yellow Hammer and Make-A-Wish this year
Yellow Hammer is April 19th-20th
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook .com/AlabamaYellowhammer
Contact is trandle@mindspring.com
Make-A-Wish Trailblaze Challenge is April 20th and May 4th
Info at: https://secure2.wish.org/site/TR?fr_id=5722&pg=entry
Contact is Roger Parsons kk4udu@arrl.org
If anyone is available to operate a station please email the contact of the event
What we've done
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.
Photo Albums of Recent Events
The Boy Scouts had a Merit Badge Day at the Red Cross it and Curry Day were both a success.
Congratulations to Hunter Warren for passing his Technician License at our April Meeting
Congratulations to Jared Freeman for passing his Technician License at our April meeting
Hope to see you soon!
See more photos of other events in the Photo Album tab at top of page on phone click the 3 lines at top then Photo Album
Here is where we are located for meetings.