The Cascades Amateur Radio Society (CARS); a group of amateur radio operators in
Jackson County Michigan.
Jackson Radio News!
The 2024 ARRL USA Radio Orienteering Championship
is coming to our local area 5-13 October 2024!
“Radio Orienteering” is the term ARRL is now using to describe on-foot radio transmitter hunting competition. It is also commonly known in the amateur radio community as “foxhunting” and “Amateur Radio Direction Finding (ARDF)”.
The event will be held in the areas of Chelsea, Dexter, Pinckney, and Brighton. And it will be full week of radio transmitter hunting excitement on the 2m and 80m bands for beginners, experts, and everyone in between!
There will be beginner instruction and practice sessions leading up to the competition days, and then the week will wrap up with the competition events. If you don’t have your own equipment for either band we will have equipment you can loan/rent. And some of the best radio transmitter hunters in the world will be present to help you improve your skills at the training camp and practice days, and also during the competition days as well.
You can walk or run, just give it a try or compete to win, all ages and abilities are welcome! The main requirement is to just have fun!
We will also have several social gatherings and already have radio operators from all over the USA as well as Australia and Canada signed up, so there will be great opportunities to associate w/ radio friends from all over. The competition will also serve as the Int’l Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Region 2 Championship.
Your help with this event would be greatly appreciated.
Click here for more info.
Amateur Radio License Testing available
The CARS VE Team offers testing for all license levels on alternate months.
Next testing date is: Oct 12, 2024
Testing held at the downtown Jackson library, McIntyre room, at 10 a.m.
Club Roster is available here.
Weather Siren Testing for Jackson County
We have been ask to help provide verification that the weather warning sirens located in Jackson County are working as expected. If you would be willing to take an hour or less out of your day once a month to check on a siren please let Tim WD8PMD know and we will add you to the list of watchers. For more information see the SkyWarn page.
Siren testing job aid (how to sign up) is now available – click here for pdf copy
Go direct to Siren Map – click button
CARS Email Reflector
Have you signed up on to the CARS email reflector? Keep up to date on what’s happening with the club. We won’t spam you with lots of junk and you can unsubscribe at anytime, just let us know.
To sign on, just follow this link. CLICK HERE
Local Nets:
Thursday Night Net,
Time:
8:00 pm (2000 local).
Sunday Night Net
9:00 pm (2100 local)
All on the 146.880 Repeater 100hz PL
CW Net on Sunday, 8 pm on 28.100 Mhz
NEXT CARS MEETING:
Tuesday Sept 17, 2024
@ 1900 Hrs.
Talk-In 146.880 ( – ) w/ 100 Hz PL
Anyone with an interest in Amateur Radio is
invited to attend.
Local Activities
Cars has 3 local nets during the week, feel free to join in on any or all of the nets. You will find the net listing to the left.
We also have 2 “eating / coffee ” gatherings during the week.
The first is held on Mondays , 9 am at Panera Bread located at the Jackson Crossing Mall. The second is on Friday nights at 5:30 pm, held at Alpha Coney Island also at the Jackson Crossing Mall.
Please join us at any or all of our events.
