04/07/2013 - Tri-State 145.450/146.940 Link Project

On 4-7-2013 the Tri-State 145.450 repeater located in Downtown Memphis was linked to the 146.940 repeater located in Oakland TN. This video shows connection of the repeater and link radio at the 145.450 site. Combined the 2 repeaters cover all or parts of 8 counties in Ark, TN, and MS. Stacey KJ4MDA was the first station to make a contact via the link. Thanks to Ervin KU4K, Tony WA4HKN, Randy WB4LHD, Danny KF4FXZ, Jeff AJ4GY, Mike KK4MCL, and Joe WA4OVO.

It's always nice high above Downtown Memphis

A special thanks to Mike / KK4MCL for making this video!

This half of the link system enjoys great coverage from East Memphis into Eastern Arkansas.

We have P-P-P-P-P-POWER

Here is the one end of the link shown with some filtering for the receive side.

On 03/02/2013 - Ervin / KU4K, Randy / WB4LHD, and myself set up and did some testing on the Downtown end of the link.

02/24/2013 - SCO work with Tri-State Repeater Assn.

Tri-state operates WB4KOG-3 APRS Digi from the SCO building in Midtown Memphis.

Danny KJ4FXZ is not afraid of heights. 

02/23/2013 - Mississippi QSO Party with Olive Branch ARC / W5OBM

02/23/2013 - Here are just a few pics I took while at the Mississippi QSO Party with Olive Branch ARC / W5OBM. We operated from Ashland MS since there are very few ham operators in Benton County.

02-16-2013 - Ham Breakfast, MDARC, Clark Tower

Saturday Morning Ham Breakfast at Danvers

Memphis Digital Amateur Radio Club Meeting

Trip to the top of Clark Tower for Tri-State Repeater Association

Looking south from the roof of Clark Tower @ 365 feet above East Memphis.

Looking North

Looking West with Downtown in the Distance. One of our repeater antennas is in the center just right of the red marker light.

Looking East/SE toward Germantown.

And 2 more pics looking West.

02/02/2013 - Repeater work in Downtown Memphis

Repeater work 330 feet above Downtown Memphis.


Looking SE over Memphis

Looking North

Looking West into Arkansas.

Looking South.

This is the Tri-State 145.450 repeater. This repeater is being linked to 146.940 in Oakland.

This is the Tri-State 444.775 repeater which is being relocated to East Memphis and linked into the West Link system.

01/26/2013 - OBARC Winter Field Day

OBARC Winter Field Day Saturday 1/26/2013.

The follow pictures were provided by K5OLV.

04/10/2013 Just an update with the results of WFD. 

The Multi-Operator, Outdoor category was won by W5OBM with 68 QSO's and a score of 4224, followed by W3HZW with 3678 points and VE3JJF with 3645 points. It's interesting to note that both W3HZW and VE3JJF worked far more QSO's than W5OBM, but had a much smaller multiplier. A total of 8 stations turned in logs in the Multi-Opertor, Outdoor category, all with scores over 3000 due to bonus points.

In the Single Operator, Home category W5TJS topped the group with 2000 points due to the bonus, even though there were no valid QSO's submitted! KD5CKP came in second with 46 QSO's and 1598 points. KU8T actually had the highest number of QSO's in the group with 68, but only scored 136 points due to no bonus. A total of 13 stations submitted logs in this category.

Way to to Tim!

01/12/2013 - Memphis D-Star Meeting

On Saturday Morning January 12th Memphis D-Star gathered once again for monthly coffee and donuts holes.

The Memphis D-Star group is officially the Memphis Digital Amateur Radio Club.

The club voted and accepted the clubs constitution.

Elected officers:

• President - KA2BSM - Rick
• Vice President - NS4B - Cliff
• Secretary - KK4IOH - Michael
• Treasurer - KF5DDP - Chris

We discussed the new experimental repeater that will be going up soon that we will use for D-Rats and Testing
The new MotoTRBO repeater is now in the process of being coordinated.

Our next meeting is February the 16th at 10 am. (This is a change from the usual schedule for the month of Feb.)

The location is:

Balmoral Presbyterian Church
6413 Quince Road
Memphis, TN 38119


VE Testing with registration at 8:30 am, Testing is at 9:00.


Don't forget the Net on Friday Night at 8:30 CST on W4LET node B.