Caesar Creek POTA
Everyone enjoyed the POTA activation we did this past weekend at Caesar Creek. The weather cooperated very nicely and members got to experience the joy of the POTA program.
VOA 80th Anniversary Special Event Station W8O
On the weekend of February 19th-20th, we celebrated the Voice of America 80th Anniversary. We operated as W8O from the VOA Museum(formerly the VOA Bethany Relay Station) for this event. There was also two other stations, W3V(Washington DC) and W4A(Greenville, NC). Both are active VOA sites, this means all of our special event stations operated […]
Winter Field Day 2022
You can see all the details about Winter Field Day here.
OSPOTA 2021
This year for OSPOTA we decided to run 2 stations, this was a first and with anything new there’s always something to learn. We did very well, this is probably our best year to date. We contacted 38 parks in Ohio and we had almost 400 QSOs. We had 7 operators help his year and […]
FoxMikeHotel Portable Operations Challenge
We took part in the Portable Operating Challenge again this year. This contest is only in it’s second year, it’s different than any other contest because your score it calculated by watts per Kilometer. Basically you want to work stations far away on as little power as possible. Every time we go portable we learn […]
SSTV from the ISS
The International Space Station(ISS) broadcasted a set of 12 pictures/images over Slow Scan TV(SSTV) from June 21-26. KD8YVJ and I were able to get a few of the images. This is always a fun activity and it doesn’t require a license since you are receiving only. This is a great activity to get youth involved […]
K3LR Visit
Back in early June we were invited to visit Tim Duffy(K3LR) Multi-Multi Contest Station is Western Pennsylvania. A few members made the 4+ hour trek to his station. These pictures won’t do it justice but it will give you an idea of his amazing station. Google Maps Satellite view for a small perspective of the […]
432 MHz EME Project
Richard(WC8RK), Joe(WA8OGS) and William(AA8XX) have been working on a little EME project.Below are the details: 432 MHz EME Project15LFA-JT Yagi & Testing Setup Yagi Hardware & Element Mounting Method:1” O.D. aluminum boom1/4” O.D. aluminum elementsStauff Clamps For 1” boom: # 3254PP (1/2 clamp used for each element)Stauff EP Plastic Insert: # 1-8 EP (1130004114)75 lb. […]
Activity Update
Hi everyone, Under the current circumstances, our activities are limited at best.We hope to be more active in 2021.
PiDay 2020
Once again this year the WCARA was part of the exhibitors at the annual Lakota Leads PiDay. This event is to promote STEM(Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) to local families. We had our famous PowerTower which is always a hit with the kids/students. We had a portable 2meter station setup to get kids/students on the […]