Coleto Creek Amateur Radio Club

Good Sunday all. I hope everybody is having a great weekend. Yesterday, Luci, KD5RIF, Caralyn, KE5YWN, Jimmy, KD5QHH, Hurshel, WB5MEX, Harvey, WB5MCT, and Bryan, KG5AUZ worked on the CCARC repeater. Ever since moving the repeater to the new location, we have been having issues with it. We have tried several times to correct the issue by fixing various things that we thought were the problem. Many times, we did end up fixing a problem but not the problem. Yesterday, h

The amateur radio community does much more than just talk on radios to each other. Our main purpose in existing is to provide communications for community events (bike rides, parades, marathons, etc.) and major emergency situations such as extreme weather events (hurricanes, floods, etc.), interruptions in normal communications (such as the complete shut down of all telephone and internet connections, land line or cell, that occurred in Jackson County a few years ago), etc.

Coleto Creek Amateur Radio Club Meeting Minutes November 3, 2016 Attending: Jimmy Podsim - KD5QHH, Luci Podsim - KD5RIF, Otto Bluntzer - WB2RJB, Dave Dodge - NV5C, Hurshel Pruitt - WB5MEX, Harvey Babb - WB5MCT and Brian Haun - KD5AUZ Guest: Bob Bailey - KG5JWX Meeting was called to order at 7:31 pm. Previous minutes were read. Hurshel noted that the missed contact in the Route 66 On The Air event was Tulsa rather than Tuscon. Harvey moved to accept the minutes with