"Amateur Radio and Emergency Communications"
Updated 09-15-2008
THE REPEATER IS BACK ON THE AIR, TRY IT OUT AND REPORT ANY PROBLEMS PLEASE!!!
901 N. 5th Street, Henryetta, Oklahoma 74437
(918) 650-2062
The
Our group call sign is
WX5OKM and is used by our communication station
that we use to communicate with our stations in the county and to the National
Weather Service in
Thank You.
Our New Repeater is..
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Local Radar
Watches and Warnings in the United States
September 15th, 2008
Hi again, The repeater is back on the air and in it's new rack. Steve KD5DRW gave us the new RACK and a nice power supply and cooling fans to spruce up the cosmetics of the whole arrangement. Steve did find that we had a bad connection on one of the receive cans so it was replaced. We are still getting a bit of desense on the receive side so we are going to add a receive can next week to give the repeater some better ears. Try it out early and often and PLEASE report any problems that you may encounter to my personal cell phone (918) 650-2062 or my email address at kd5fmu@sbcglobal.net.
August 5th, 2008
Hello all, Sorry it's been a while since my last update. The Echolink is down at this time but just as soon as we can it will be back up and running at James KA5WHM's house. Once I get my tower up and the antenna's back in place, my Echolink station will be back up and running as a south link to James' station so that we can use the repeater on a walkie in the southern part of the county. Before too long we are going to be fully organized. It may not be until this fall but we will be. Not sure the exact direction we will head but be assured it will be the most positive one we can come up with. The WX5OKM repeater has been up and running very well the last several months and so has the KD5DRW repeater. I am not sure right now on the status of the KD5ESL repeater but I will update when I know for sure. I have been on medical leave for several weeks now but I hope to up and running again soon so bear with me. I now have a personal cell phone number so call it when you need me the number (918) 650-2062. Updates as I get them. Thanks All.
February 24th, 2008
Hello again everyone sorry it's been so long since my last post but life during the Holidays was very hectic. Since my last post Steve KD5DRW has added an EchoLink Station to the 147.120 repeater on Node# 367874.
The Echolink station for the WX5OKM repeater is temporarily down due to a computer crash. Give me a week or so and I will have it good as new.
Also NWS Storm Spotter Training March 10th at 7:00 p.m. at the Creek Nation Mound Building.
Also don't forget Green Country HAMFEST is almost here, March 14th and 15th In Claremore, Oklahoma!!!! I can hardly wait. Check there link at the top of the page for details.
November 12th, 2007
Hello everyone and welcome to fall. Just a note to let you all know that I updated the OCSA Repeaters page with pics of 2 of the repeaters. Let me know what you think. If you want anything added just let me know. The ECHOLINK is now on a dedicated computer so it should be up about 99.8% of the time, let me know if you have any problems with it.
I would also like to be the first to wish you all HAPPY HOLIDAYS and a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
May 27th, 2007
Okmulgee county struck by earthquake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I Felt it!!!!
Magnitude 3.6 OKLAHOMA
Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 21:03:22 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude 3.6
# Date-Time Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 21:03:22 (UTC) - Coordinated
Universal Time
# Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 04:03:22 PM local time at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 35.33N 96.01W
Depth 5.0 kilometers
Region OKLAHOMA
Distances 35 km (20 miles) S of Okmulgee, Oklahoma
50 km (30 miles) NNW of McAlester, Oklahoma
75 km (45 miles) SW of Muskogee, Oklahoma
140 km (85 miles) E of OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma
Location Uncertainty Error estimate: horizontal +/- 11.7 km; depth fixed
by location program
Parameters Nst=8, Nph=8, Dmin=238.9 km, Rmss=1.05 sec, Erho=11.7 km,
Erzz=0 km, Gp=145.7 degrees
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID uscwaz
May 13th, 2007
Just so everyone is up to date. We now are running on the new Icom repeater on two antenna's versus the one we where running on. That was most of our problem before. Turned out there was nothing wrong with the Motorola repeater, we discovered that one of the duplexers came apart and it had to be repaired. The slight issue I thought we had with the NHRC-2 was nothing more than the can/antenna problem. I took the repeater receiver and transmitter to Wynn Radio and they completely checked out good. So the Motorola repeater is now on Ebay to reimburse Steve (KD5DRW) for his generous contribution of the Icom repeater. I will be posting pic's of the Icom repeater soon. Try out the repeater and send me any reports you have. Thanks and 73's
Don't forget Happy Mothers Day!!
March 18th, 2007
Well Hamfest has come and gone. It was a pretty good turnout. I was able to upgrade to a General license finally. I was able to see some old friends and make a few new ones. We will have some new members very soon and when the votes are all in I will list them here on the website. Soon we will be having some regular monthly meetings that will help us coordinate for the upcoming storm season. More info on the meetings are coming soon. I was going to buy myself a Yaesu FT-2800 at Hamfest but they were on backorder. So I ended up settling on the Icom IC-2200 two meter for my shack. I will test it out and let you all know how decent it is. I have powered it up and put a few local repeaters into and so far so good, but it has only been a day. No I did not get the optional digital module for it, too expensive. Just so everyone knows Steve Linnet, KD5DRW has advised me that the club is welcome to use his repeater as needed in our SKYWARN efforts as well as ours. The KD5DRW repeater is on 147.120 + in north west Okmulgee County, it has great coverage and reaches well into Creek County and into Tulsa County.
We thank Steve for all his help in our efforts.
In the meantime keep your heads up and your radios turned on.
God Bless.
Through a generous gesture
from The Indian Territory Radio Society the
MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION - CLICK HERE
You can fill it out online and then print it our or save it as a file and attached it to an E-Mail.
