Kingsport Amateur Radio Club Bays Mountain Radio Club
K4NRI/KARC/BMRC Antenna Cluster On Bays Mountain Kingsport Tennessee
Neil Weber Rebuilding Roof On The New Repeater Site
Kingsport Amateur Radio Club Bays Mountain Radio Club
K4NRI/KARC/BMRC Antenna Cluster On Bays Mountain Kingsport Tennessee
Neil Weber Rebuilding Roof On The New Repeater Site
The members and friends of KARC/BMARC wish to thank HHART in Rogersville for allowing us to share their fine facilities with us for Winter Field Day. All had a great time, friendships were renewed and made. KARC/BMRC made 30 PSK contacts, over 170 Phone contacts and over 35 CW contacts. We are very much looking forward to next year.
Join Our Club. It is so easy. Just send a check for $20 (single membership) or $25 for a family to: KARC/BMRC 188 Harrtown Rd Kingsport Tn 37664. Donations for our new repeater system can be sent to the same address.
Chris Early, N6MMX, has donated this brand new 60 foot tower to our club. Ken Klotz, W4IJk, and Neil Weber, KM4NWH, are in the planning stages of having it erected. The tower will support the 900mhz, 2m and 440 bands.
Thank you Chris, for this tremendous gift to our club!!!
Monday through Saturday from 0900 - 1100 EST, the Canadian American CW NET provides helpful discussions and code practice for participants. The frequency is 7.153. Thank you Dave Stevens, WB4DES.
As you can see from the chart, Walt is an 80X Shack Sloth. Boy, if he had a dollar for each one of those points...
We are privileged to have so many Top Achievers in our area. To be recognized as a Shack Sloth you must accumulate 1000 points. As a chaser you can work from home. Recognize the other local callsigns?
Ron too, is an avid chaser. Shack Sloth winner 22X times, he has garnered most of his points on CW.
Patrick is a SOTA Goat with over 1900 points.
John achieved SOTA Goat status when he collected 1000 points.
David is unique in that he achieved his award totally on VHF, UHF and 10m.
Again, we are privileged to have so many Top Achievers in our area as Activators. To be recognized as a Mountain Goat you must accumulate 1000 points and make contacts from a certified summit. Many are Chasers and Activators.
Bob is a faithful Chaser. He looks at the SOTAWatch Site, knows the time and place an Activator plans to be active and waits for the CQ. And then he Pounces on them!!!
Our electronic equipment is housed in this building which is heated and air conditioned.
Dave Stevens worked with Park Manager Rob Cole for a place to store our locker. Dave is also responsible for other storage and a club meeting site at Eastman. We are grateful to all those involved.
View of radios and other club equipment located in our locker.
The Second Annual Special Event Netherland Inn was a huge success again this year despite very poor conditions on 20m. The contacts were:
40 Meters: 92 SSB
Furthest Contact: Stockholm Sweden
20 Meters: 3 SSB 2 CW
Furthest Contact: England
15 Meters: 8 SSB
Furthest Contact Canada
Lots of Fellowship again this year!
Bob Warden, Rick Johnson, Tom Price, Ron Burns, Dave Stevens (John Williams and Larry Dale are not pictured)
Ron Burns, who is very good with children, is introducing the hobby through the sounds of CW. This young man enjoyed hearing his name tapped out in code.
John Williams is sharing the hobby with Meagan, our Park Ranger.
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