Category Archives: Priority notices

W1BD Williamstown repeater status

The Repeater Committee of the Central Vermont Amateur Radio Club held an emergency meeting at 17:30 hrs. on April 17, 2008. Those present were: N1IOE, Chair; KB1EPT, President; WA1YNU, Treasurer; WA1LIE, Director and custodian of the W1BD call sign; and Repeater Committee members KB1MFQ and W1WRW.
The committee received a technical report and advisory notification from […]

Tonight’s meeting is canceled!

Thanks to the weather, CVARC’s February meeting (originally scheduled for tonight) is canceled.
March’s meeting is still scheduled for Wednesday, March 5th. We hope to see you there!

CVARC president resigns

I’ve recently learned that Ken Blair KB1GPQ has resigned as president of CVARC. Many, many thanks, Ken, for all of the work you’ve done over the years for CVARC, especially most recently as president. We wish you all the best in your endeavors, and hope to see you “down the log.”
With Ken’s resignation, CVARC vice […]

Williamstown 146.625 repeater is back up!

Tom Long KB1NGQ accompanied CVARC repeater technician Allen Wilde N1IOE up Mt. Pleasant this morning and got the machine turned happily back on. Thanks to both for their work this morning, and thanks to all who have been patiently waiting for the past 12 days. And — most important — we’d like to offer our […]

Williamstown Repeater Status

As we all know by now the Williamstown repeater site is off line. This is scheduled be returned to operation by Saturday the 19th with a walk in to the site for the second time. I hope that Hams have found this site to be a value to the communications in our surrounding area. The […]

Williamstown Repeater Status

Things are looking good for this Saturday, 19 January, 2008. Not definite, but likely….

Williamstown repeater status

On Tuesday afternoon, 8 January, 2008, CVARC’s W1BD Williamstown repeater on 146.625 MHz went off-line. Thanks to the gracious good will of Allen Wilde N1IOE, the CVARC nets usually heard on W1BD in Williamstown are being held on Allen’s repeater in Barre. Many, many thanks to Allen:

Frequency: 147.390 MHz
Offset +600 Hz
P/L tone: 100 Hz

Also, though […]