Links

Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ARES)/Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES)

• National Level: ARES National Headquarters (ARRL)
• State level: ARES/RACES of Virginia
  • Section Emergency Coordinator (SEC): Jack Smith, KE4LWT
• District Level: District 3 = Rockingham to Hallifax Counties
  • District Emergency Coordinator: Martin Krupinski, KE4KEW
• Albemarle County ARES/RACES
  • Emergency Coordinator (EC): John Porter, KK4JP (KK4JP@arrl.net)
  • Net: Northern Piedmont Emergency Net, Thursdays at 2000 local time, 146.730 MHz repeater, CTCSS 151.4 (alternate in case of outage 146.895, CTCSS 151.4)
  • Emergency Simplex: 146.550 MHz

List of area amateur radio clubs and repeater organizations

Note that the links tend to focus on the repeater listings, since that is the page the links were originally on.

• Albemarle Amateur Radio Club (AARC). Serves City of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, University of Virginia, and includes members from neighboring counties, such as Greene, Orange, Louisa, Fluvanna, Buckingham, Nelson, Augusta, and Rockingham, some of which have their own clubs. UVA and the Shenandoah valley area also have their own regional clubs .
• W4UVA Amateur Radio Club at the University of Virginia
• Waynesboro Repeater Association of Virginia
• Masannutten Amateur Radio Association (MARA). Current year newsletters are only available to members. MARA/VARA monitor April 2012 issue has repeater listing on page 5. Dec 2012 has info on new 443.350 Big Mountain repeater and changes on 444.600, 145.130. 2011 repeater listing. A page from a Jan? 2013 issue lists 145.130 (88hz but due to change), 146.625,146.670 (114.8), 146.715 (146.2), 147.225, 147.315, 224.500, 224.820, 443.150, 443.350, and 444.600. Most use a CTCSS of 131.8Hz.
• Valley Amateur Radio Association (VARA)
• Richmond Amateur Telecomunications Society (RATS) (W4RAT)
• Richmond Amateur Radio Club (W4ZA)
• Culpepper Amateur Radio Association (CARA) (W4CUL)
• Hamdepot list of Virginia Ham Clubs
• T-Marc is the coordination organization that covers the valley
• SouthEast Repeater Association (SERA) doesn’t provide info to non-members, includes list in quarterly journal. frequency utilization plan.

Local Emergency Services

• Live Emergency Dispatch logs on Warhammer: (does not include police): Rescue Incident Display System, Fire Incident Display System, Shift status reports, and NavBoard
• Albemarle County Search and Rescue
• 511 Virginia (traffic informaton)
• Virginia Department of Transportation
• Red Cross Central Virginia Chapter
• Charlottesville Albemarle Rescue Squad
• Western Albemarle Rescue Squad

Utilities

• Dominion Electric Power
• Charlottesville Gas
• CenturyLink (phone)

Citizen Corps

Citizen corps was launched after 9/11 attacks and provides training for the population to assist in disaster recovery and includes CERT, VIPS, MRC, FireCorps, and Neighborhood Watch.

• Charlottesville CERT
• Thomas Jefferson Medical Reserve Corps
• Albemarle County Volunteers in Police Service
• Find more – search

General Ham Radio Links

• Amateur Radio Relay League
• FCC ULS license Search
• QRZ
• Hamcall.net
• eHam.net
• World Radio History Museum
• Amateur Radio Newsline

News

• Cvillenews blog
• Charlottesville Daily Progress Newspaper
• C-ville
• NBC 29
• Newsplex
• WHTJ

Miscillaneous Links

• Peak Finder.
  Sample view from AK4OL QTH in Charlottesville. Peak.ar android app does something similar on your android phone but with augmented reality so you just have to point your phone/tablet (with adequate sensors) towards a mountain peak to identify it.
• Become A Storm Spotter From Home