West Chester Amateur Radio Association
This year again we participated in Ohio State Parks on the Air(OSPOTA) which is held every September. The bands were decent and the weather was perfect, we had a great operating as WC8VOA from Caesar Creek. We manage to get 330 contacts and 48 Ohio State Parks which is the multiplier for this event. Our […]
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.
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 […]
You can see all the details about Winter Field Day here.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Hi everyone, Under the current circumstances, our activities are limited at best.We hope to be more active in 2021.