Kentucky Mountains Amateur Radio Club

Kentucky Mountains Amateur Radio Club An ARRL affiliated club.

01/15/2025

Happy birthday to KY4JLB, our club President. Have a wonderful day

01/01/2025

With a possible winter storm coming this weekend into early next week now is the time to take precautions if you have not done so.

Check your smoke detectors and CO detectors. Change the batteries.
Do you have a fire extinguisher?
Have you tested your generator and properly stored some extra gas?
Have you checked your backup heat source and properly stored whatever fuel it uses?
Do you have extra water available? Paper plates, cups, bowls and flatware are a life saver if the water is off.
Do you have flashlights, lanterns and batteries?
Have you added extra bedding for your outside pets to make sure they are warm and dry?

Prepare now because after the storm hits it maybe too late.

FOP Shop with a Cop at Walmart Saturday
12/15/2024

FOP Shop with a Cop at Walmart Saturday

12/09/2024

Club Christmas Dinner Sat Dec 21st 6 pm Your Place Restaurant $12 person at door

12/04/2024

With great sadness we have lost a great friend and founding club member. John Farler K4AVX of Viper passed away Monday from a short battle with cancer. Arrangements are at Maggard Mt View Chapel in Hazard Saturday Dec 7th. Visitation 11 am to 1 pm with funeral at 1 pm.

11/03/2024

KMARC meets Monday Nov 11th 6 pm Airport Gardens Baptist Church. Testing available

Thanks for attending Our Hamfest!!
10/26/2024

Thanks for attending Our Hamfest!!

Hazard HAMFEST 2024 takes place this Saturday, opening at 7 am. Our relocated event is now at Downtown Hazard, N. Main S...
10/21/2024

Hazard HAMFEST 2024 takes place this Saturday, opening at 7 am. Our relocated event is now at Downtown Hazard, N. Main St., VFW (signs posted), featuring inside and covered outside tables. Breakfast is available from the VFW kitchen at $3 and $6. The Hazard 2m repeater enables talk-in. Parking is provided behind the building; please do not block the driveway adjacent to the building.

Austin and Larry, CONGRATULATIONS! Improving skills and moving forward in Amateur radio is what our club is all about.
10/10/2024

Austin and Larry, CONGRATULATIONS!
Improving skills and moving forward in Amateur radio is what our club is all about.

10/10/2024
10/04/2024

Club meeting Monday 6 pm Airport Gardens Babtist Church, 22 Sumac Ave, Hazard. Plans finalized for hamfest. Testing will be available at meeting

Hazard Hamfest takes place on October 26 at VFW Post 7387, 1700 N Main St. Signs will direct you to the venue. Multiple ...
10/03/2024

Hazard Hamfest takes place on October 26 at VFW Post 7387, 1700 N Main St. Signs will direct you to the venue. Multiple vendor spaces offered, including covered outdoor areas. Freshly cooked breakfast available from the kitchen. Parking located at the rear.

08/30/2024

Cookout Club Meeting to be held 2nd Monday Sept 9th 6 pm Perry Park

AD4DX SK-Willis Asher of Leslie County age 94 passed away Friday August 9th at Hazard ARH from kidney failure. He was a...
08/12/2024

AD4DX SK-Willis Asher of Leslie County age 94 passed away Friday August 9th at Hazard ARH from kidney failure. He was a previous member of our club and talked on Hazard repeater daily untill couple years ago when his hearing failed. He was a TV repairman by profession and operated a CW net dailey for many years. He will be buried at a later date in the Leslie County Military Cemetery on Hyden spur! Rest in Peace Willis-We got it from here!

Fifty years of promotion of Amateur Radio here in the mountains. One of the oldest clubs but still very active and invo...
08/09/2024

Fifty years of promotion of Amateur Radio here in the mountains. One of the oldest clubs but still very active and involved in our community.
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Videos

SR-6 CIA Spy Radio
SR-6 CIA Spy Radio

SR-6 CIA Spy Radio presentation by John Back WJ4PB, at the Letcher County Amateur Radio Club November 2019 meeting.

NVIS Antennas
NVIS Antennas

Kentucky Emergenct Net October 28 2019. Excerpt. KY4RDB here, as hams we are always chasing that elusive DX contact. But have you gave time to think about HF disaster communications, those contacts are more than likely going to be in the 50 to 300 mile range. Your traditional verticals and high dipoles are going to have a low take off angle that is going to cause your signal to possibly bounce over any station in that short of a distance. This is where the concept of NVIS antenna setups come in. You may hear these antenna setups called cloud warmers, because the idea is the throw the signal up into the air at a sharp angle so the bounce comes back down in the range we are looking for above. I have a Chameleon Emcomm II long wire setup about 7 foot off the ground. In this config the long wire acts more in an omnidirectional fashion than directional and most of the signal hits the ground and goes up with a high angle take off and bounces back down off the ionosphere closer to my station. Thus making those NVIS contacts possible. Here is an excerpt of Kentucky Emergency Net tonight. NCS was W8QAS out in Canneyville in Grayson, KY. About a 200 mile contact from my QTH. He was about 56 or 57 at my station and he was able to copy me. I recorded this just by laying my iPhone by my radio.

2M/440 Elk Log Periodic Antenna SWR Sweep
2M/440 Elk Log Periodic Antenna SWR Sweep

SWR sweeps of the 2M/440 Elk Log Periodic antenna. This is just the 2M bands, will post another video on the 440 side later. Also look over me saying SDR instead of SWR. https://elkantennas.com/product/dual-band-2m440l5-log-periodic-antenna/

Unboxing and hookup of the BTech U25D DMR Amplifier by KY4RDB and KY4CAT.

Unboxing and hookup of the BTech U25D DMR Amplifier by KY4RDB and KY4CAT

What is a DMR hotspot?
What is a DMR hotspot?

What is a DMR Hotspot you ask? Take a few minutes to learn with club member Roland Brown KY4RDB. This is the first of his video series on DMR radio.

Roland KY4RDB here, I have been messing around with DMR radio tonight. Participating in the Texas Statewide net. My setup is a Raspberry PI 3 with a DVMeGA UHF radio board attached for a hotspot. The HT is a TYT MD-380 loaded with the MD-380 Tools. Hopefully soon we will a DMR repeater down in the eastern part of state. DMR is pretty neat, I have made many contacts around the states and around the world in the week I have been operating.

During the Holiday season, club member John Back WJ4PB provided ole' St. Nick with a link for the EKY Santa Net across the East Kentucky linked repeater system. Below is a recording of the last net on December 23rd. Look for John and Santa to be back next Christmas with the Santa Net.

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