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So far the Winter Field Day is still scheduled for this Saturday at the Red Cross in Jasper.
Amateur Radio Group in Jasper, AL- W4WCA
Amateur Radio Group in Jasper, AL- W4WCA
Meetings
Meetings
2nd Saturday of each month at 8AM at Red Cross building at 1101 Viking Dr in Jasper, AL.
Nets
Nets
147.390 Mhz with PL tone of 110.9 on Thursdays at 8PM. We also have a time for echolink checkins. You can find us on echolink by searching W4WCA or by entering node 993864. We also have a simplex net following our repeater net. The simplex net is on 147.435 Mhz usually around 8:20 or so. We also activate a Net it times of emergency or bad weather on our repeater.
Repeaters
Repeaters
147.390 Mhz w/PL tone 110.9
442.300 Mhz w/PL tone 110.9 Fusion
146.660 Mhz w/PL tone 110.9
Purpose
Purpose
Our purpose is to provide emergency communications in time of disaster or other emergency when all forms of communications are down.
Amateur Radio License Testing
Amateur Radio License Testing
We offer testing for Technician, General, and Extra Licenses at each of our monthly meetings. We meet at 8AM on the 2nd Sat of each month, then our testing starts immediately following our meeting, usually around 9AM.
Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events
February 14th - 8:00am - Walker County ARES monthly meeting at the Red Cross in Jasper
April 25 - 8:00am Pota Event at Walker County Lake off of Industrial Pkwy in Jasper
WINTER FIELD DAY 2026
WINTER FIELD DAY 2026
Our WFD at the Red Cross in Jasper was a great time. We had a very good turn out for the event, with a few visitors. We made alot of contacts on several different bands. We also earned several bonus points and multipliers, such as sending and receiving a winlink email over rf, multiple types of antennas, multiple modes, JS8 contacts. It was a great time and if you didn't come you missed out, but there is always our next event so keep up with upcoming events and come out. I will put out total points we earned when they get all tallied up.
POTA at clear creek was a fun time. If you haven't been to one of our POTA events I suggest coming out and seeing what it's all about.
If you are interested in taking your license test check out this video!
We have our monthly meetings on the 2nd Saturday of each month at 8am at the Red Cross building at 1101 Viking Drive in Jasper.
What we are about at Walker County ARES.
What we've done
What we've done
We assist in helping local agencies communicate in times of emergencies. In the April 2011 tornadoes that hit Cordova, AL we had group members in fire, medic, and police vehicles riding along using ham radio to communicate for them because their communications were down.
Good presentation on ARRL National Traffic System and passing traffic
Good video to check out on Emergency Communications.
Here is where we are located for meetings.
If you have questions about Amateur Radio or would like to know more about it please come to one of our meetings..
If you have questions about Amateur Radio or would like to know more about it please come to one of our meetings..
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