Nov 19

NC HEARS Website

Greetings All.

As a result of a malicious attack on the previous site, we are working on getting a new website up and running.

Our hope is to have a basic functioning site up and ready for general consumption by the first part of next week (11/23/10)

Thank you for all of your patience.

Tucker Sizemore
WG8E

Nov 01

Press coverage of NC HEARS from ARRL website

From the ARRL website…  I’ve included the link below the text.  Thanks Mike Knight, K4IJ with 3 Dog Repeater Group in Roanoke, VA for notification of this AWESOME PRESS COVERAGE!!

73’s
Derek
KD4ADL

ARRL President Makes Final QSO with Australia’s WIA Centenary Station

11/01/2010

The Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA) marked the conclusion of their VK100WIA centennial special event operation on October 31 with a QSO between WIA President Michael Owen, VK3KI, and ARRL President Kay Craigie, N3KN. Logged at 1255 UTC — five minutes before midnight in Australia — the QSO between N3KN and VK100WIA, with VK3KI at the microphone, was the last contact recorded in the Australian special events log.

The contact was made using EchoLink, with VK100WIA using the VK3ANT node in Melbourne, Victoria. Craigie used the K4IJ 440 MHz repeater in Roanoke, Virginia to access the EchoLink node of the linked North Carolina Hospital Emergency Amateur Radio System repeaters (NCHEARS); the NCHEARS system was also linked to the South Carolina Healthcare Emergency Amateur Radio Team (SCHEART) repeaters. Repeater users across three states were able to hear the historic conversation between two continents.

More than 50 WIA-affiliated clubs have used the VK100WIA call sign for almost six months as part of WIA’s centennial celebration; the WIA is the oldest Amateur Radio national society. For this contact, VK100WIA was operated portable for the Westlakes Amateur Radio Club, the club privileged to be the last club to use the call sign. Since VK100WIA went on the air in May, it logged 24,439 contacts.

Owen told Craigie that the WIA was pleased that the special event station’s final contact could be with her, and thanked the ARRL for its support and for participating in the WIA Centenary Weekend through ARRL International Affairs Vice President Jay Bellows, K0QB. Owen also said that the WIA was “passing the baton on to the ARRL, as the ARRL would be celebrating its centenary in four years.”

Craigie congratulated the WIA on their 100 years of service to Amateur Radio in Australia, wishing them well as they begin their second century. She noted that strong national societies around the world, working together through the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU), are essential for the future well-being of Amateur Radio. Owen expressed the WIA’s appreciation for the ARRL’s contribution to Amateur Radio, especially the League’s service as the International Secretariat of the IARU.

“Through their extensive program of centennial observances — including the VK100WIA operation — the WIA has set the bar very high for the ARRL’s own 100th anniversary activities in 2014,” Craigie said after the QSO. “I am honored to have been invited to be the last station to work VK100WIA on behalf of the ARRL and our members.”

http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-president-makes-final-qso-with-australia-s-wia-centenary-station

Oct 08

NC HEARS link to VA 3 Dog Repeater Group

NC HEARS is now linked to 3 states on the weekends!

The 3 Dog Repeater Group in VA is now linked to NC HEARS for the regular weekend link ( 5 PM Friday to 9 PM Sunday).

For a list of all the sites on the UHF weekend link, please see this web link.

http://tinyurl.com/ydsy4n6

73’s & Have a good weekend!

Derek
KD4ADL

Oct 01

EmComm activity on NC HEARS this weekend.

Greg Hauser, W3FIE, is on the NC coast and assisting with communications related to the flooding in Brunswick County, NC and surrounding area.  You may here him connecting via EchoLink and contacting stations back in Charlotte.  Please give Greg’s traffic priority this weekend.

If you’re having a QSO and you hear him connect, please acknowledge him and see if he has traffic to pass.

Thanks and have a good weekend.

Derek
KD4ADL