Mammoth Cave Amateur Radio Club

Website update

KF4OZB — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 02:27:00 +0000

As of late there has been some confusion regarding the new tones on the repeater. I thought I had updated the website to reflect these changes in operation, but found out the other night I had not done so. My apologies to all the hams that attempted to use the information on the website to setup their radios.

I just finished updating the header images. They now show the proper tone requirements. In addition, I added some text to the main page listing the repeater frequencies, tones and the QTH of each repeater.

If anyone finds an error or something does not seem to be working correctly please send me an email.

73′s

KF4OZB

WA4RRR – Alice Ford Berkley Blair

KF4OZB — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:12:23 +0000

Alice Blair

Alice Ford Berkley Blair, 90, of Bowling Green, died Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013, at 10:50 a.m. at her residence.
She was born Sept. 24, 1922, in Grand Rapids, Mich., to the late Elmer Leroy Ford Sr. and Myrtle Presley Ford. She was also preceded in death by her first husband, Arthur Irwin Berkley; two brothers, Elmer Leroy Ford Jr. and Harold Leroy Ford; a son, Lloyd Arthur Berkley, a daughter, Judy Garnet Berkley Barton; and a grandson, J. Herbert Blair Vance.She worked at Cutler Hammer and the Kentucky Colonel Restaurant. She was an amateur radio net operator, with numerous awards. She was also a former member of the Bowling Green-Warren County Rescue Squad. She was a longtime member of Glendale Baptist Church, where she taught The Compassion Sunday school class. She had a love for the outdoors and was an avid bird watcher.

She is survived by her husband of 54 years, William Leroy Blair; her daughter, Pamela Blair Wolfe and her husband, Duane, of Bowling Green; four sons, William N. “Bill” Berkley of Bowling Green, John David Berkley and his wife, Jo Ann, of Irving, Texas, Charles “Mickey” Berkley and his wife, Dianna, of Bowling Green, and Harold Leroy “Hal” Blair and his wife, Donna, of Bowling Green; 30 grandchildren; 46 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; and several nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.
Visitation is from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at J.C. Kirby and Son Broadway Chapel. The funeral is at 1 p.m. Friday at the funeral chapel, with burial in the Mount Lebanon Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
SIGNING OFF WA4RRR

http://www.bgdailynews.com/obituaries/alice-ford-berkley-blair/article_4e400ea8-7606-11e2-876b-001a4bcf887a.html

APRS Tests To Be Conducted

KF4OZB — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 01:54:40 +0000

Emails have been received from Bob Bruninga WB4APR bruninga@usna.edu regarding a project called Cave Link Radio. He and several others are planning a test with APRS radios at various points in Mammoth Cave. The test will be Mar 2-3, in conjunction with our hamfest!

Bob is a professor at the U S Naval Academy in Maryland, and the founder of the APRS packet system. He has asked if any local hams would like to participate in his project. Check the link above, and contact Bob at bruninga@usna.edu for any further information.

2012 Field Day

KF4OZB — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 23:31:22 +0000

Field day started out this year with Herb(KJ4CMG), Dave(KJ4OR), Nick(KI4OZI), Stacey(KJ4DBM), and myself(KF4OZB) loading up supplies from the club room and proceeding to American Legion Park to setup.

Dave, Nick and myself repaired the support rope for the 80m antenna. Tom brought club’s new grill. Around 6pm Paul(KD4LDQ) commenced to grilling up some hamburgers.

Bonnieville Repeater Online

KF4OZB — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:19:39 +0000

Joey(KJ4ARF) and Chappy(KD4SS) went to the Bonnieville site tonight to install the new repeater. Preliminary tests showed the new 70cm and 2m machines were working really well. I was able to communicate with them from my home here in Glasgow using only an HTX-202 and a rubber duck on low power. I believe Joey reported the repeater was putting out about 18 Watts, more than enough to make it to the Glasgow area.

The new repeater’s frequencies are 146.895(-) and 444.895(+) with a 114.8 tone.

Job well done guys!

Facebook

kj4arf — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:39:35 +0000

Don’t forget to friend us on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/mcarcky4x

73′s

Glasgow Repeater’s

kj4arf — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:24:14 +0000

The 146.940 and the 444.925 repeater’s have been moved to another site. We welcome signal reports on both repeater’s. Please let us know if your signal is better or worse. At the moment, we have had good reports but would like to hear from you.

73′s

KJ4ARF

Bonnieville Repeater

kj4arf — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:00:56 +0000

Testing has started on the newest repeater to be owned and operated by the Mammoth Cave Amateur Radio Club. The repeater will be located in Bonnieville Kentucky. At this time we are using a ft-8900 to cross band repeat off the 444.925 repeater to test on VHF frequencies. The VHF frequency we are testing on is 146.895.

Website updates

KF4OZB — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 03:09:47 +0000

As you may or may not know; the KY4X website is undergoing an overhaul. Please bear with us during the many changes that are to come.

We welcome your feedback, please email kf4ozb-at-qsl.net with comments, queries, suggestions. (Note: replace -at- with the @ symbol to send me an email)