Chesapeake Amateur Radio Service
FCC Callsign: W4CAR – Chesapeake, Virginia USA
Some useful information on using Winlink in the Virginia Beach / Chesapeake area. Winlink Website: https://winlink.org/ Winlink User Login: https://winlink.org/user WinLink Downloads: https://downloads.winlink.org/User%20Programs/ WinLink Wedensday’s: https://winlinkwednesday.net/ Download WinLink Express: https://www.winlink.org/WinlinkExpress Chesapeake Location: WinLink Vara FM Peer to Peer node on Wednesdays on 145.550 A local user (Blair Gillam – Read More …
Welcome to 2019 and we had a great Jan Shack Day to start off the new year. We had a lot of people show up to operate on the radios and make a few contacts. And we had guys working on the repeater controller, thanks to Steve (KC4CAW), Bill Runyon Read More …
Thanks to Van, KM4KBS, we are able to stream our 146.820 repeater’s analog feed over the internet. Go to on air activities in the top menu bar and you will see the 146.820 live stream button. I do not know if this will stream digital communications or not.
Bill Runyon and Bill Mellema worked with the tower crew and a tech from Gately Communications yesterday to resolve our repeater antenna issues. They are both repaired and were put back in service around 3pm. The problem was bad/broken connectors on the jumpers from the antennas to their hardline. Therefore Read More …
This is the system CARS uses in our repeater systems for those who can’t make it to the repeater site, an excellent video on the systems