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"I am often asked how radio works. Well, you see, wire telegraphy is like a very long cat. You yank his tail in New York and he meows in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? Now, radio is exactly the same, except that there is no cat."
Attributed to Albert Einstein
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| The online Home of the Casper Amateur Radio Club - W7VNJ, that anyone can edit! |
Casper Amateur Radio Club
W7VNJ - Amateur Radio in Natrona County since 1954. About CARC, what we do and who we are.
W7VNJ Web Site
This site is a bit different than most Ham Radio Club sites.
This site is a Wiki. Basically that means you - our visitor - can, add, edit, modify and create pages or their content and are encouraged to do so! If you've know something that may be of benefit to the Ham Community - create a page for it or find a related page and put it up. Share your history, your shack, your favorite modes, your favorite events, kits you've built, your projects, your hard earned wisdom bought by hours of chasing elusive DX or QRP contacts - let your imagination by your guide. Of course, we'd like you to be a member of CARC, but that's not a requirement to contribute to this site. As long as it's ham radio related - you and your ideas are welcome here. Ultimately, this site's users will create its content and keep it up to date. You must have a user account and be logged in to make any changes. See the Create an Account or Log In page.
This web site has been Serving the Casper area Amateur Community since 28-Jan-2006
What is Ham Radio?
Read this or this to find out. Then join in the fun!
Discussion Board
A must place to visit: The CARC Discussion Board. This is were news, plans, events and pretty much anything 'ham radio' or relating to CARC, it's members or this site is discussed and shared.
Email Reflector
You're invited to subscribe to CARC's Private Email Reflector. The reflector traffic is not moderated, however subscriptions are. This is to prevent spammers from subscribing and passing their junk on to everyone on the list. Everyone else is welcome and encouraged to subscribe. This reflector is totally under the control of CARC. Only subscribers can view the membership list. CARC won't share your email address with anyone else. If you've any questions or concerns, please - ask away. If you aren't familiar with what an email reflector is, This will explain it.
Meetings
See the meetings page for info on when, where and how to get there.
License information
Here's a page talking about our classes for folks that want to learn more about ham radio and earn their license.
See the Discussion Board for developments and latest news.
See these pages on the ARRL web site for information on how to use the FCC Universal Licensing System to perform Administrative Updates, Vanity requests and License Renewals.
VE Test Session
This page, VE Test has news and info on VE tests in the Casper area.
See This Page for a current list of upcoming VE test sessions through out Wyoming (ARRL listing).
W7VNJ 2m repeaters and Tower Site
Our Local repeater is open to all licensed operators and can be found at 145.235 (standard negative offset) with a 100hz tone. Plan to use this repeater for many local club activities and events. It has very good coverage in the Casper area - especially for hand helds.
Our Regional repeater is open to all licensed operators and can be found at 146.940 (standard negative offset) with a 123hz tone. This repeater is used for the Sunday evening club net. Those operating near Casper Mountain (South side of town) may want to use a mobile or base radio instead of a hand held and/or an antenna with some gain. Due to 'shadow' effect near the mountain, it can be tough to get into the .940 machine with a 'rubber duckie dummy load'.
For more information, pictures and details on the club's repeater and the tower site visit the 145.235 or the 146.940 page.
So, what's a repeater you ask? Take a look. Click that link and read up!
Repeaters in the Casper area
The Area Repeaters page has a list of repeaters in the Casper area.
One of our newer pages discusses Repeater Etiquette.
Nets
Here's where you find out times, frequencies and purposes for the local VHF and regional HF nets.
Wyoming Swap Shop
Paul, KB7FGN does all of us a service by coordinating the Wyoming Swap Shop. You can find the latest listings for the Wyo Swap Shop and other wanted and for sale items in the Classifieds section of our discussion board.
Operations and Projects
The operations page is a place to gather information about the hows, where's and who's of ham radio in the area. Idea is to make information available that is of more interest to the ham operator, but not take up space on this front page for the casual 'surfer'.
The Projects page includes ideas and possibly plans for radio related projects. Including station setup, power systems, mobile operations, alternative energy and more.
Field Day
See the Field Day page (28th through 29th of June, 2008)
Wyoming State Hamfest
Congratulations to Bob Myer, W7BLM for 2007 Wyoming Ham of the Year!
May 24 - 25, 2008
Casper, WY
Hosted by the Casper Amateur Radio Club (CARC) - W7VNJ, with the help of many!
- 2009
May 23 - 24, 2009
Hosted by the Sweetwater county Amateur Radio Club
HERC System
See the HERC page for the maps, images and information from the old site.
APRS
- Information on the local APRS infrastructure can be found on the Area Repeaters page.
- Information on APRS in the Casper area can be found on our Aprs page.
- The APRS Wiki
Other activities
See the Current_events page.
There's now a Casper area Six Meter Email Reflector group on Yahoo Groups
CARC in the News
This page has links to video clips and stories of W7VNJ in the local media.
Links (local hams, weather and more)
Visit the links page for other sites of interest, including localy collected weather information
Site Info
Information on server status, news, etc can be found on the site_info page.
