Archives 2015

Happy Holidays and Hamfests!

by Ted Uyeno General

Its that time of year!  Cooler weather, good food and Hamfests!  Talking about Hamfests… The Stone Mountain Hamfest was the first weekend of November and it was real blast! The Tampa Hamfest is coming up just around the corner in December.  Probably the best Hamfest in the south is the Orlando Hamfest coming up in February.  So get with your Ham Radio buddies and plan a Hamfest road trip!!!  The more who ride together the cheaper and more FUN the Hamfest road trip is!

Talking about the Holidays… Thanksgiving is just around the corner and Christmas is right on its heels.  The VARC membership wishes Happy Holidays!

Don’t forget to ask Santa for that Ham gear you have been eyeing all year.  Also make sure to make the New Year resolution to be more RADIO ACTIVE!

73 from the crew at W4VLD…

Lowndes County Hams deploy HamWAN network

by Ted Uyeno HamWAN

HamWAN is a “by hams, for hams” wide area high speed digital network which is now being deployed in the Lowndes county and the South Georgia area.  Networking technology has now progressed enough that Amateur Radio operators are able to integrate their analog and digital emergency communications networks with low cost HamWAN wireless technology in order to achieve superior communication stability in the face of emergency communication situations.

HamWAN provides advanced internet protocol routing techniques in order to provide a seamless networking experience for Amateur Radio operators and by offering network services such as weather cameras, repeater access, VoIP PBX, ADS-B and SDR receivers. When systems are properly configured, software applications will keep on functioning just as if nothing had happened, and the all-important mission of emergency communication can carry on.

HamWAN, when not being used for non-emergency situations, provides networking capability for individual hams using our allocated 44Net IP space for day to day communications requirements.  Presently several area repeaters have been linked together using Ubiquiti microwave radios & Mikrotik routers and switches.  To experience this new and exciting technology tune your station to the VARC 146.760 repeater system today.

Georgia ARES Statewide Meeting Jan 24th

by Ted Uyeno Events

The Georgia ARES statewide meeting is coming up on Saturday January 24th.  This yearly event will be located at the following address:

Georgia Public Safety Training Center
1000 Indian Springs Drive
Forsyth, Georgia 3102
9:30am-4:00pm
For more information go to:   http://gaares.org/
Theme this year:  Are YOU Prepared for the first 72hrs?
 1.  Family Preparedness #1  in your go bag
2. CERT-Community Emergency Response Team    Introduction: Basics, Demos, Ham operability
3. Sheltering in place (remember Snow Jam 14?)
4. Digital Modes: Demos & Discussion
5. Guest Speakers: Charlie Dawson – GEMA Director of Operations  & Keith Stellman- MIC NWS Peachtree City