Central Texas Amateur Radio Net Script - October 19, 2013
CQ, CQ, CQ - for the Central Texas Amateur Radio Net.
This is ____________(name and call sign), net control station for this evening.

Wilderness Protocol Deck - January 21, 2021
The Wilderness Protocol is a dedicated effort to insure emergency communications help either in areas beyond normal repeater coverage, or in the event local repeaters are off-the-air and not reachable in an emergency situation.

Central Texas Amateur Radio Resources - checked 4/7/2022
The following links to Amateur Radio and weather related information are presented for additional investigation by the reader. CTARC makes no representation as to the accuracy or validity of the information presented by the linked sites nor endorses products or services that may be offered.

Shortwave Monitoring Frequencies Of Interest - checked 4/7/2022
On my way home from a training event last night I was having a brief conversation with a retired Air Force Officer who had helped coordinate the airlift for Katrina. To say he’s well-versed in disaster management is an understatement, along with quite a few other topics. One of the things we talked about was the logistics needed in the event of a larger-scale disaster. Best case scenario, the whole thing dies down and the virus mutates on into something harmless. But we neither plan nor train for best case scenarios, we prepare for the worst. And the we agreed that worst case scenario will start to unfold when people start to get hungry- and Americans ain’t hungry yet. Sourced from nat-com.org, the following is a list of frequencies that will likely have traffic in the event of a longer-term disaster and might be important to have written down somewhere.

Unchained Preppers Forums - checked 4/7/2022
Visit the Radio / Communications section

The OTARD law: can Homeowners Associations ban antennas? - March 9, 2021
We often hear that a homeowners’ association (HOA), or a similar group, attempts to block someone from installing an antenna on their condo or house. However, the OTARD (Over-the-Air Reception Devices) law is clear on this; you have every legal right to install an antenna, even on a condo, if you own it or have an exclusive use area of your rental property.

QRZ.com XML Logbook Data Subscription
XML Logbook Data gives realtime callsign lookups to most logging programs. It also provides the ability to upload/download your log files to the QRZ Online Logbook.