Amateur Radio Club of Brown County W9BCI

 ARES NET Each Thu 7:30PM 147.300 (+) P/L Tone 136.5 | During Declared Emergency 3.910 MHz LSB | 146.97 SKYWarn NET 
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Posted: 03/22/2025
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CARC Hamfest & W9BCI VE Testing

8AM - 12, Columbus Amateur Radio Club Hamfest @ Columbus North High School  ...  READ MORE
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Posted: 02/05/2025
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Equipment Corner

Items our Area HAMs are using and have experienced great performance Send any equipment experience and a link ot me and I'll post it in this area.   DAVE@N9VDT.COM KD9RUY - hit the 143.7 machine all the way from his QTH over by Westport.   He uses this directional YAGI he purchased off Amazon.https://a.co/d/9Pkyflk We'll load Jim's MESHTASTIC equipment references here afer our FEB'25 Fellowship meeting....  READ MORE
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Posted: 08/08/2024
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W9BCI 4th Sat Fellowship (Next: April 26, 2025)

Monthly 4th Saturday Fellowship 9:00AM-10:30AM We will be meeting at the Career Resource Center on the Brown County High School campus.The CRC is the building located directly behind the SPEEDWAY.Unless there is a special event in a Month, we meet for fellowship the 4th Saturday of each month.Here are the discussion topics from Mar 22, 205 Discussion TopicsCalendar  We aspire to offer testing in Brown or Bartholomew Co each month.Apr...  READ MORE
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Posted: 02/10/2024
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Current Band Plan (Updated 2-13-2024)

Band Plan Click here to download the .PDF file. After you have downloaded it, you can print it.Added to the list:The Brown County VHF #2 Repeater: 145.400 (PL=136.6, currently open) Will be moved to another location shortly.The Brown County GMRS "700" repeater: 462.7000 dpl411 I couldn't edit the previous post and I wanted to add the new 2m Repeater 145.400-I have a few other notes from our last discussi...  READ MORE
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Posted: 01/28/2024
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June 14, 2025 VE Laurel Testing

W9BCI VE Test Team Offering FREE Amateur Radio Test Services Sovereign Christ Bible Fellowship1702 Lawton Avenue in the Sovereign Christ Bible Fellowship buildingColumbus, 47201Time: 1PM  until we're done ...  June 14, 2025The W9BCI Laurel VE team has scheduled Amateur Radio license testing in Nashville, Indiana.Please bring a photo ID and your FRN when you arrive to take your exam.Contact w/ Questions:  Dave Redding, dave@n9vdt...  READ MORE

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Activities of Interest
Posted: 12/12/2024
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AC9TR's CARC Post on CW

Morse Code / CW content warning.  :-)   A couple years ago I started learning CW, and went at it on and off.   About 6 weeks ago I decided to get more serious about it and set aside 20-30 minutes a day just to practice "reading."    I know I'm not the first, and that everyone who starts down that road talks about it with the wide-eyed wonde...  READ MORE

Repeater Assets @ Brown County State Park
Posted: 09/28/2024
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147.30 Repeater

This repeater is located in an equipment shed....  READ MORE

Field Days
Posted: 09/28/2024
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2024 Field Day Pictures

For the 2024 Field Day, June 22-23, many of the W9BCI hams hung out with Johnson County's Midstate Amateur Radio Club at the Brown County State Park.  Other W9BCI hams were helping at repeater sites. ...  READ MORE

W9BCI Band Plan
Posted: 02/13/2024
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Current W9BCI Band Plan (Printable)

Attached is a .PDF which you can print. Open this resource and click the blue Download button. You can then open the file and print it....  READ MORE

Activities of Interest
Posted: 08/31/2023
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A Path To Your TECHNICIAN LICENSE

  There are many paths for an individual interested in earning their TECHNCIAN license.   W9BCI is here to help you, coach/mentor, encourage, ... whatever you need ... please contact us.     For the N9BCI Radio Club (Brown County School Club) we use the following references (In no particular order of priority & just for your consideration)   ...  READ MORE

Activities of Interest
Posted: 08/25/2023
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SAVE THE DATE: JAMBOREE On-The-AIR OCTOBER 18-20, 2024

FEEDBACK/COMMENTS. The camp was excellent. Our Scouts had a great time, learned some new things, and had a good time connecting with the nearby Cub Scout Pack.  / Excellent camp. Thanks again, to all of the volunteers who shared their knowledge with the Scouts. / Boys had a great time.  There was a lot of stuff packed in the day.  Thought things went well.  There was a lot for t...  READ MORE

ARCBC Meeting Minutes
Posted: 03/03/2023
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SKYWARN Storm Spotter Training Opportunity

From: Noel A. Taylor Date: Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 6:56?PMSubject: [CARC79] NWS Spotter Training WebinarTo: For those of you who have not been able to attend a live Skywarn spotter training session this year, here's an opportunity to get trained online:   https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fattendee.gotowebinar.com%2Fregister%2F4699244956289496926&sa=D&ust...  READ MORE

ARES and SKYWARN NET Scripts
Posted: 02/26/2023
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SCRIPT: SKYWARN Storm Spotter NET

BROWN COUNTY SKYWARN NET [ANY STATION CAN START  A NET AT THE  REQUEST OF THE NWS] CQ Net, CQ Net, CQ Net.  Attention all stations, this is (Call sign) ___________ activating the Brown County severe weather net.  We have been requested to activate this net by the National Weather Service.  NWS has issued a ___________ watch/warning for Brown County until _________ ...  READ MORE

ARES and SKYWARN NET Scripts
Posted: 02/26/2023
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SCRIPT: ARES NET

Brown County ARES Net Script CQ Net, CQ Net, CQ Net.  This is “CALLSIGN” with the Brown County A R E S net, which meets every Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. local time on the 147.300 repeater with a 136.5 PL tone. We value any and all check-ins, and the net is open to all Amateurs Radio operators. This is a directed net.  Please direct all your input and comments to Net...  READ MORE

Repeater Assets @ Brown County State Park
Posted: 02/26/2023
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Photos of Repeater Assets @Brown County State Park

Brown County State Park, 147.300Mhz...  READ MORE