Glad to announce the WARC Spring Tailgate. This is a coordinate ARRL event.

Scheduled for April 28th, Location: Headland Town Square, from 7AM to 2PM.

KE4GWW/James will offering a VE testing session if you are interested. Please contact James prior to the tailgate to coordinate testing.  Direct questions to James at ke4gww (at) arrl (dot) net for details.

There will be a demonstration HF station setup.

Somewhere around Noon, there is a covered dish lunch planned. Bring a side, dessert, or whatever you wish. The club will furnish paper plates, plastic ware and some napkins.

Tailgate spots are free. However, we definitely are encouraging a donations.

There will be a raffle but the grand prize is yet to be determined. There will be other prizes that will be raffled during the tailgate. Ticket will be $1 each and 6 for $5.

Questions?  Contact us via info@wb4zpi.org

We are looking forward to your participation. Surely you have some stuff that you would to bring to the tailgate... if not, come and have some fun visiting, etc.

Jim/KC4HW

The Panama City Amateur Radio Club is sponsoring a tailgate on Saturday April 14th, 9 AM until 1 PM. Buy, sell or swap ham radio gear. Limited tables are available for $5 on a first come first serve basis. There will be raffle prizes and food is available. License testing at 1PM. Bring $14, picture ID and copy of license if upgrading. The location is the Panama City Amateur Radio Club, 130 N. Church Ave Panama City, FL. The talk-in repeater is W4RYZ 145.210 minus no tone. Questions about this event can be sent to panamacityarc@gmail.com. The club web site is w4ryz.org 

Titanic Special Event Station

Amateur Radio Station W4AVM on board the SS American Victory, a WWII Victory Ship will be on the air Friday April  13th through April 16th with special transmission commemorating the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.

Call Sign W4AVM

Dates Friday April 14th through Monday April 16th, 2012

QTH:  Tampa Bay, Florida

Hours of Operations on Friday and Monday 1400Z to 2000Z (10AM to 4PM EDST)

On Saturday the station operations will start at 1400Z and continue until 0600Z on Sunday April 15th to cover the times of the sinking of the great ship.

Times and Frequencies of operation Friday through Monday

Saturday Evening April 14 to Early Sunday Morning April 15

In additional to the operation on the Amateur Service frequencies, on Saturday night and early Sunday morning the ship station KKUT will transmit a special call up and commemorative message in CW during the hour the Titantic struck the Iceberg and the hour that the doomed ship slipped beneath the waves.  The call up will be on 500kd (600 Meters) and the commemorative message will follow on 468kc.  Special certificates will be available to station intercepting these signals on the medium frequencies.

Club meeting has changed to the second Monday of the month starting April 9th.  Meeting will still be at the Covenant Methodist Church on US 84. 

We still have lunch every Friday at Noon at Larry's BBQ on West side of Ross Clark Circle. 

All are welcome!

Jim/KC4HW

This is a Wiregrass Amateur Radio Club sponsored event. Also this has been coordinate with the ARRL.

Oct 22nd at the Headland Town Square, from 8AM to 2PM (or whenever).

KE4GWW/James is offering a VE testing session if you are interested. Please contact James direct at ke4gww (at) arrl (dot) net for details.

KI4DFC/Todd will be presenting some information/topics on ARES.

There will be a HF station setup.

Somewhere around Noon, there is a covered dish lunch planned. Bring a side, dessert, or whatever you wish. The club will furnish paper plates, plastic ware and some napkins.

Tailgate spots are free. However, we definitely are encouraging a donations.

There will be a raffle for a Yaesu FT1900R as the grand prize. There will be other prizes that will be given away during the tailgate. Ticket will be $1 each and 6 tickets for $5.

Questions?

We are looking forward to your participation. Surely you have some stuff that you would to bring to the tailgate... if not, come and have some fun visiting, etc.

Jim/KC4HW

WARC will conduct an ARRL Kids' Day at Northside Methodist Academy (NMA) on June 18th, times TBA.

Please mark your calendars & let me know ASAP if you can participate
onsite or offsite responding to calls.

Initial plans are for 1 HF station, 1 VHF station on local repeater and a
Morse Code practice area. I would like to have at least 2-3 licensed
operators to help out.

This should be good exposure for our Club as well as attracting youth (&
their parents) to our hobby & Club.

For those who may not know yet, Matt Johnson, N5MTJ is working diligently
to start a Amateur Radio Club at NMA. I encourage us all to support his
efforts as fully as possible. This is a great beginning in the Dothan
area.

POC is Railey Macey, K3RWM at rmacey@sw.rr.com or 334-793-5242 ofc or 718-7327 cell.