Jarbalo Amateur Radio Association
In Memory of Mac, W0ROO
As of this afternoon, Sunday, April 8, 2018, the new Yaesu Fusion DR-2X is on the the air. It was a 1:1 swap with the old analog iCom repeater. The new repeater is set at the maximum 50 watts compared to the old at 35 watts. The mode is AMS which stands for Automatic Mode…
After what seemed like an eternity, the DR-2X Repeater is finally here. Yaesu apparently lost the paperwork and it required some reminding. But, alas, the new repeater is here and the old one goes back this week. Meanwhile, “Old Faithful”, our Icom UHF Repeater continues to be rock solid. JARA members, and they know who…
May 14, 2017 – Last last week, the Fusion repeater suffered a glitch and whenever someone starts using one of the digital modes, the repeater gets hung in transmit mode and cannot be remotely controlled or used for communications. The repeater is currently OFF. Sometime this week, the analog repeater will be swapped in for…
January 2016. After a thorough site inspection, we are re-engineering the site to accommodate 2 antennas with both vertical and horizontal dispersion and use hardline instead of 9913 coax to isolate transmit from receive and still be good RF neighbors to the other UHF operations at the hospital. Mounting hardware and a new UHF antenna are…
December 2015. As of Christmas Day 2015, JARA now has the callsign W0ROO, a club station call in memoriam of Mac and with the permission of Evelyn McConnell. We are proud to have Mac’s callsign back on the repeater. Thanks for KB0SCK-Lindsey and WA0SRS-Steve for their support with the repeater maintenance and update.
November 2015. JARA is in possession of a YAESU DR-1 144/430 Dual Band C4FM/FM Digital Repeater. We attempted to replace the iCom repeater but had a de-sensing issue with the receiver. We are in the process of re-engineering the site
Robert “Mac” McConnell, WØROO, would always sign off from “Lake Jarbalo”. There is a Jarbalo, Kansas; a postage stamp size town near the bottoms of the frequently flooded Stranger Creek. When the creek is high, it literally looks like a lake in some places. Mac had a friendly voice, was a fun-loving radio operator, and great…
