Our club, W9PVR, recently voted to install a weather station at the D-Star site, giving us the ability to display live weather data for members and visitors. While Ambient Weather provides built-in HTML widgets for web display, I wanted to take things a step further: sending that data directly to APRS.fi. To make this possible,…
This month’s meeting was an on-air meeting on the club’s 146.910 two-meter repeater, as our normal meeting site host was going to be on vacation. We had a few brief announcements then did an on-air exercise.The exercise consisted of simulating severe thunderstorms moving into our area. We had participants givespotter reports. Then opened 3 storm…
We’ve been working behind the scenes to improve the audio quality on the W9PVR AllStarLink/EchoLink node. Thanks to feedback from our operators and some helpful testing, we’ve made a few adjustments on the node side to clean up the audio and provide a clearer experience for everyone connecting. But remember—audio quality is a two-way street!…
Pine Valley Repeater Richland County ARES/RACES Monthly Meeting 12-15-2020 Virtually via Zoom Members present: kc9cmd Chris Vice President, KB9LBO Ralph Treasurer, W1MOZ David, KC9GPD Glen, Ralph Ray, KC9MRW Neil, KA9USV Les, KC9MLE Matt Meeting called to order about 7:15pm by KC9CMD Chris Vice President Treasurer Report: WCCU Checking Account: $1,789.91 $10.00 Check was written to…
Pine Valley Amateur Radio Club Meeting Minutes March 21, 2020 Call to Order: at 7:05 pm on the 146.910 repeater Sign In: Members: Chris kanable KC9CMD, Dick Neumann W9JR, Ralph Hendrickson KC9LBO, Neil KC9MRW, Daina KC9KOQ, Glen KC9GPD (via Echolink) Meeting Exercise: We held a drill simulating the current Pandemic. we used our 146.910 repeater…
There was no meeting do to the covid 19 pandemic. Amateur radio operators were encouraged to be on alert, and have equipment ready encase we are activated during the pandemic.
The Pine Valley Repeater ARC. will be hosting a 1 day technician class. Saturday June 6th, from 8:45a.m.-5:00p.m. in Richland Center at the Courthouse lower level conference room. For more information & to registrar please contact Ralph Hendrickson KC9LBO @ Kc9lbo@yahoo.com 608-632-5200 Please Register as soon as possible so materials can be ordered for pre…
The Pine Valley Repeaters ARC Richland County ARES/RACES were one again in attendance at the Richland County Fair. We set up our trailer and were on hand to introduce fair goers all about Amateur Radio. We also were watching the weather encase any storm arose. Along with that we were a contact point for fair…