Chesapeake Amateur Radio Service
FCC Callsign: W4CAR – Chesapeake, Virginia USA
The CARS club members are welcome to stay on after the weekly Sunday night CARS Nets to test out their Yaesu Digital Radios using the C4FM modes. Tonight we had 6 check-ins and we tested out the Group Monitoring features and sent a couple of messages as well as trying Read More …
Just FYI, this weekend is the SSTV special event aboard the International Space Station. Find out more details from the website information below. It looks like the best time to see the International Space Station in Chesapeake this weekend will be Saturday night (Feb 9, 2019) at 6:45pm EST and Read More …
John Kruk – N9UPC, National Sales Manager, Amateur Division – Yaesu USA The Yaesu WiRES-X: Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask – Part 1 sessions have been scheduled for Tuesday November 27th, 2018. We will once again be offering two sessions with an Eastern Time Zone webinar Read More …
Here are some photos from last nights club meeting. Thanks Van for sending me these pictures. We had a very interesting presentation on SDR communications from Raymond Reis, KK4NBF and his friend Sharon’s from Germany. It’s always enjoyable when our friends from Germany, Illertissen T-15 come for a visit. Maybe Read More …
Today at our monthly shack day, Barry, K5VIP was giving a demonstration on one of the many digital communications modes that he enjoys operating. Overall, it was a success although we appear to still be working on a few technical bugs in the new network that has been set up. Read More …