Watauga Amateur Radio Club

Last updated June 29, 2025 at 1500 EDT.

View from the WA4NC DMR Sugar Mt. Repeater site. In the distance is Rich Mt. and Howard’s Knob near Boone – Rich Mt. Is the home of the WA4J repeater and the other WA4NC DMR repeater.

WA4J (147.36/103.5 Hz and WA4NC (444.575/151.4 Hz) are linked repeaters covering the High Country around Boone, North Carolina.

Slides of Bill Baudry’s (NC4WB) presentation on “The History of Morse Code” are available on the DOCS page.

ARRL Field Day – a great time was had by all!

On Saturday, June 28, 2025, WARC once again participated in field day. The event was held at Devant Field Gazebo inBlowing Rock, NC.

Three separate HF stations were set up, and we were able to demonstrate amateur radio to a number of visitors. Thunderstorms forced us to cease operation late Saturday afternoon, but everyone agreed it was a great time.

Thanks to George Bartholomew, K2ODV, for arranging a visit by Will Holt, from Watauga Emergency Management. We really enjoyed showing Will our operation.

A special thanks to Rich Thompson, K1HE, for coordinating this event. GREAT JOB!

NET REMINDER! The Wataga Amateur Radio Club weekly net meets each Thursday at 8 pm local time on the WA4J and WA4NC linked repeaters. All amateurs are welcome; you do not have to be a member of WARC to participate.

The club has voted to return to in person monthly business meetings. Presentations will be offered on the third Wednesday of every other month. Presentations will be only via ZOOM. Please check the coming events calendar below.

Coming Events

WATAUGA AMATEUR RADIO CLUB NETS

NET NAME	DAY/TIME	REPEATER	NOTES
WARC 2-METER NET	EACH THURSDAY 8:00 pm	WA4J 147.36 103.5 Hz	WIDE AREA COVERAGE
HIGH COUNTRY DMR NET	EACH TUESDAY 8:00 PM	WA4NC 443.0375 DMR	ALSO ON MANY OTHER AREA DMR REPEATERS
WATAUGA SKYWARN INFORMATION NET	FIRST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH 8:00 pm	WA4J 147.36 103.5 Hz	PROVIDES TRAINING AND INFORMATION FOR WATAUGA COUNTY SKYWARN MEMBERS

Our club meets on the first Monday of the month. If the first Monday falls on a holiday, the meeting will be rescheduled.

Matt Mellon K9MJM has arranged for us to use a conference room at ECR Software for our Business meetings.  This is an excellent, state of the art facility with built in teleconferencing capabilities.  Those who prefer to attend remotely will be able to do so via Microsoft TEAMS.

Please note new meeting location0: ECR Software Corp. has a new facility in the Boone Industrial Park and this will now be our meeting location. The address is: 474 Industrial Park Drive See map at bottom of this page.

If you want to get involved in Ham Radio in the High country, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO STOP BY. If you would like to attend remotely, please email k2sd@arrl.net

WARC 2025 OFFICERS

President Mark Ashley K4CK

Vice-President Danny Horney KE4AAP

Secretary Corey Brown WB0RXQ

Treasurer George Bartholomew, Jr. K2ODV

NEW WARC HAT, SHIRTS, AND JACKET NOW AVAILABLE – ORDER TODAY!!

WARC members may now order custom, hats, shirts, and jackets from JSE Custom Embroidery. These very stylish and affordable items feature the new WARC logo. No amateurs wardrobe is complete without one of these items. Visit https://www.jse-repair.com/product-category/club-apparel/watauga-arc-wa4j/

WARC MONTHLY COFFEE – JOIN US!

We gather at 11:30 AM on the third Monday of the month at the Cracker Barrel restaurant in Boone. No business is conducted, just a chance to talk about any and all topics related to Amateur Radio. Everyone is welcome!

PRESENTATION SCHEDULE FOR 2023 MEETINGS

Gang, we’ve got a good selection of presentations already lined up for 2025,

but we still need a few more. If there’s any Ham Radio related material that
you would like to have covered this year, please let me know with

your ideas. If you’re interested in being a presenter, please indicate that as well

Remember, this is a growth opportunity for you as a presenter. If you’re
interested in a subject, study up on the material and then volunteer to give
a presentation to the group. Your participation as a presenter to the club
will be greatly appreciated. 

Here’s what we have scheduled so far. We don’t have solid dates yet, but
we do have commitments for these presentations.

2025 Presentations

• History of Morse Code (Bill Bauldry)
• Remote Radio Operations (Eric Lassiter)
• Overview on Contesting (Scott Douglass)
• Maxwell’s Equations as reduced by Heaviside (Rob Thompson KQ4OYC)

Thank you

Corey Brown (WB0RXQ) Presentation Chair and Club Secretar