Albany Amateur Radio Club

23/07/2025

Wanted to give a huge thank you to club member, Billye KR4AZF for her talents and making this amazing reel from the weather radio event at Ace Hardware last week. We appreciate the work you put into this.

17/07/2025

Many thanks to WALB News 10 for putting this on and thanks for having us from the Albany Amateur Radio Club helping in programming customers noaa weather radios. Stay weather aware especially this time of the year.

16/07/2025

please join WALB and ACE Hardware for a weather safety event, Thursday July 17th from 10am to 2pm at ACE Hardware at Oakland.

WALB’s First Alert Weather Team and HAM Radio operators will be on hand programming NOAA weather radios. Radios will be available for purchase @ a discount of $39.99. We’ll also reprogram existing radios .

Hope to see you this Thursday @ ACE Hardware @ Oakland .

29/06/2025

Another fun field day in the books. Tried some new antennas, operated some new modes, had good with good company. Until next year.

22/05/2025

12/05/2025

The Hurricane Watch Net (HWN) will host a two-day on-air Special Event to celebrate our 60th Anniversary. During this event, taking place June 7–8, 2025, our members will operate using the callsign WX5HWN.

Operations will take place on, or near, 14.325 MHz and 7.268 MHz at the following times:
Saturday, June 7:10:00 AM to 10:00 PM EDT (1400–0100 UTC)
Sunday, June 8: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM EDT (1400–2100 UTC)
Note:Operations on 7.268 MHz will conclude at 3:00 PM EDT (1900 UTC).
Our Net Control Stations – located across the United States – will all use the WX5HWN callsign, passing the virtual baton from one member to the next throughout the event.

Special Certificate Available:
To receive a commemorative certificate, please email your request to [email protected] no later than June 30, 2025.

Certificates for confirmed contacts will be sent via email only. Please, no QSL cards or postal requests.

For more details about this event and the Hurricane Watch Net, visit: www.hwn.org

04/05/2025

We will be touching on a lot of these topics this month at our upcoming meeting. For the meeting coming up at the end of the month we will have a guest speaker Meteorologist Kerri Copello who is also the Emergency Management Specialist with Phoebe. She will be giving a briefing on what we can expect from this coming up hurricane season and the benefits of ham radio for hospital emergency management. I highly encourage all ham operators to come out to this one. Hope to see you all there.

The first step of preparing for hurricanes is to know your risk. Find out today what types of water and wind hazards could happen where you live. Hurricanes are not just a coastal problem. Impacts from wind and water can be felt hundreds of miles inland, and significant impacts can occur regardless of the storm’s strength. Know if you live in an area prone to flooding, if you live in an evacuation zone, and identify any structural weaknesses in your home.
noaa.gov/know-your-risk-water-wind

08/04/2025

Clothesline Antenna

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06/04/2025

Fun parks for on the air activation for the Georgia parks on the air contest at Kolomoki mounds state park. Great fun, lots of contacts made and just a good time to be outside.

22/03/2025

The Georgia Auxcomm CommEx was today and turned out to be a great success. Myself, KM4SAG and Jamie Sullivan, KJ4OPY set up a Winlink peer to peer station at the Camilla Fire Department Drill Field to communicate with the State Operating Centers in Atlanta and Forsyth and check in on SSB while the city and county fire departments were doing drills of their own on site. A couple of goofs were made but were quickly corrected and was a successful exercise. If you’ve never done an emcomm exercise, I highly encourage any ham operators to do one. It’s a great way to test your equipment and make sure everything works and it’s always best to have a plan when things go south.