The Yaesu DR-1X repeater and Arcom RC210 controller work beautifully together once you get the initial connections and modifications completed. I started this process a while back with my post titled Yaesu DR-1X Modifications...
2015’s Simulated Emergency Test (SET) was a great success for Jackson County ARES/RACES, it was the first time Jackson County has been involved in the annual exercise. Jackson County paired with Madison County for...
For the past year my local organization, Jackson County ARES/RACES, has been struggling to find a home for our SKYWARN linked repeater. Earlier in 2015 the tower owners kicked us out of the shack...
My local radio club and ARES/RACES group (http://jcar.us) are operating a booth at our county Fair this week. So far it’s been a blast and we’ve gotten quite a few interested people stop by....
Base Setup / Echolink / JCAR
Since I’ve had the Echolink relay up and running for a few months now I’ve found a few things out over this time. One being that the Echolink software is very much more demanding...
I’ve recently been acquiring equipment and testing an Echolink relay to a local repeater. Overall building the relay wasn’t difficult but I did learn several things about transferring radio audio to a computer and...
