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 …
It is that time of year to start getting volunteers for Shamrock 8K and Marathon’s. Terry, KA8TNF, and Tom, WS9B, from the local VBARC club are looking for volunteers to help with the following events. Shamrock 8K is March 16, 2019. Need at least 12 people for the 8K Read More …
HF Radio For Sale: Icom IC-7000 and more Joe Horton (N4LWC) is selling a HF Icom IC-7000, power supply, tuner, signalink USB adapter, and a small 2 meter 440 portable radio. He is asking $850 for everything, and it all comes in a nice wooden case. (Images below) QST Review of the 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 …