Ohio Statewide Tornado Drill
The annual Ohio Statewide Tornado Drill will be held on Wednesday, March 22nd at 9:50AM ET. If you are a trained Storm Spotter or interested in Emergency Communications, please check-in …
2023 Skywarn Spotter Training
The Wilmington Office of the National Weather Service has released it’s schedule of online virtual Spotter training for this year. They will also be holding in-person classes. These will be …
NVIS Day is Coming in April!
NVIS Day, 2023 is coming! Ohio NVIS Day 2023 will be held Saturday April 22, from 10AM until 4PM EDT. The purpose of NVIS day is to construct and try …
Ohio VHF Contest
The OHIO VHF Simplex Contest is this weekend, January 14, 2023, from 10 am until 4 pm EST. The event is a six hour contest to inspire amateurs around Ohio …
Repeaters and Winlink Back Online
The W8GCA callsign has been successfully renewed and all repeaters as well as the W8GCA-10 Packet Winlink node are back online.
GCARES Repeaters Down
The W8GCA callsign has expired. We cannot legally run the GCARES Net or the repeater or use the W8GCA callsign until it is officially renewed, which may take some time. …
W8GCA-10 Winlink Node Down
Unfortunately, the W8GCA-10 Winlink node is down due to a technical issue with the W8GCA callsign. We are working to renew the callsign and re-establish the W8GCA-10 Winlink node, but …
GCARES October 2021 SET Results
Congratulations and thanks to all who participated in the October 2021 Simulated Emergency Test (SET)! Ohio Section finished second in the nation in both ARES Activity and Section/Local Nets. Greene …
Winlink Nodes Now KD3WCO-10
Thank you very much for your patience with our transition to the new callsign. Following the passing of Wynn Rollert, W6CDR, we had to move the VARA Winlink node to …
W6CDR-10 VARA FM Winlink On-Line!
The W6CDR-10 VARA FM Winlink node is back on-line and operational after a few months off the air. Originally, we had to move the system due to the sale of …