Freedom Weekend Aloft - Simpsonville Mem Day

[wa4hrk]

Courtesy of Blue Ridge ARS.

Balloon chase cars will NOT be using these! Check FRS for them.

Not sure of channel allocation at this point, but these are the FWA operations frequencies for May 22-25 2009.

CH FRQ CT
1 457.4625 131.8
2 457.6000 123.0
3 467.8000 136.5
4 467.8250 151.4
5 467.7500 110.9
6 467.7750 167.9
7 461.4875 114.8
8 461.6125 250.3
9 461.7125 082.5
10 461.7375 074.4
11 462.0875 210.7
12 464.0875 103.5
13 466.4875 206.5
14 466.6125 100.0
15 466.7375 131.8
16 454.0000 233.6

 

[wa4hrk]

We received a lot of interference all weekeind - carrier on/off 2-3 second intervals/no audio or data - on 462.0875 which rendered that channel totally useless even at close range. If anyone knows what that might have been, please let me know! Thanks, wa4hrk <at> gmail.com

Otherwise, except for the weather that sometimes changed HOURLY, it was a great weekend. Our club worked with the organizers to help make their communications groups more efficient by providing a "dispatch" frequency, control operators, and physical radio management (ht checkin/out, fresh batteries, handling rentals, etc) for the entire weekend. Club VP Tom Fry KI4ONJ headed the effort.