Chesapeake Amateur Radio Service
FCC Callsign: W4CAR – Chesapeake, Virginia USA
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 …
I am sorry I had to leave shack Day for lunch with friends and miss this demonstration from Jim, KG4WOJ. He brought up equipment to demonstrate broadcasting video over UHF frequencies. As you notice he captured Paul, K4PRB very well in this photo. Hopefully, we can get Jim to give Read More …
Appears we have a more serious problem than first thought. Appears storms that came through possibly damaged our antennas and both he UHF and VHF antennas have to be replaced. We could be looking at a week or longer with the 146.820 and 444.000 repeaters off the air. Stay tuned Read More …
Just a little video showing CARS Members Bill Runyon, WF4R, Bill Mellema, N3WM and Keith Ainsley, KG4ZXK, switching our VHF 146.820 Repeater from Motorola analog to Yaesu System Fusion. This is our second digital repeater. Our other repeater is 444.000 MHz. The Motorola is going to be a standby VHF Read More …
The 444.000 System Fusion digital repeater has been turned off until further notice. This matter will be discussed in more detail during the May 2nd general meeting at 7:30 pm, 116 Reservation Road.