Last updated on April 9, 2021
January 20, 2019, at the Kane County Fairgrounds. Doors open at 8am. Our hamfest committee has been meeting for months now to ensure YOUR 2019 WCRA HAMFEST is one of the best ever. We will be raffling off a new Yaesu FT-991A HF transceiver. Tickets for the radio raffle will be $10 a piece. Only 300 will be sold. Click on the HAMFEST link above for more details.
New Volunteer Examiner Team
WCRA has a new VE Team! We have been approved by the Laurel VEC to form a VE Team. Thanks to Tim/KC9YFI and Steve/N9OA for their legwork in getting this formed. See either of them for more info.
January Meeting
January 4, 2019, 7:30pm. We will be meeting at the First Presbyterian Church of Wheaton. All are welcome. The program topic will be Hamfest Preparations. Please try to attend. DUES ARE DUE.
Repeater News
From SATERN…We will be off for the next two weeks due to Christmas and New Years Eve. We will resume on January 7th and after that we are planning to try to combine our West and East Metro nets into one. To do so, we will likely be shifting to a different location … the Schaumburg (SARC) repeater, K9IIK. They also have a linked UHF repeater as well as EchoLink. The tests we have run indicate that this might be our best compromise location to serve the whole Metro area. This is not a casual decision, but rather one that has required a lot of thought and input. We are very grateful to the WCRA for allowing us to use their machine the last several months, and hope you will express that to your board members! 73, Lyn. The 145.31, 145.39 AND 444.475 machines are all back on the air. Thanks to the RAB for repairing the 440 machine and getting it back on the air. The 39 machine has some antenna issues, but is operational. The 220 machine is back on the air, albeit at a greatly reduced output. Plans are in the works for finding it a new home.