News Updates

(most recent at the top)

15 March 2008 - The W4VB 224.400 Repeater is now on the air co-located and linked full-time with the 145.33 and 442.95 repeaters.  CTCSS is not currently required to access 224.400.  The 442.95 repeater is the only one of those 3 that currently requires CTCSS.  
Thanks to Stro KO4FR, Lisa KE4HGO, and Steve KC4JGC for getting the 220 machine up and running!

6 November 2007 - Coordination has been received for the new Norfolk 220 repeater to be constructed on 224.400 MHz.  Installation likely to be in the December-January timeframe.

5 November 2007 - Antenna work is planned to take place this week at the site of the 145.33/442.95 repeaters, and is expected to affect repeater service on Wednesday (Nov. 7).  The 147.375 and 444.475 repeaters should remain available as they are not impacted by this work.

3 July 2007 - The CTCSS tone on the 444.475 repeater has been changed from 131.8 to 127.3 due to another repeater in the Northeast on the opposite split and using the same 131.8 tone.  All other W4VB repeaters still use 131.8.

29 March 2007 - The 145.33 repeater blew a fuse on the power supply and was down for a few hours today.  It's back to normal now.

12 January 2007 - Access to the 442.95 repeater requires CTCSS 131.8.  The autopatch on 145.33/442.95 was adjusted today and is working well. 

10 October 2006 - Updated net schedule for 145.33/442.95:

            Sunday 9:00 pm - American Red Cross Net
            Monday 7:30 pm - RASON Net
            Tuesday 7:30 pm - RASON Net
            Wednesday 7:30 pm - RASON Net
            Thursday 7:30 pm - Norfolk ARES Net

All hams are encouraged to check in to the nets.
EchoLink access into 145.33/442.95 is available, for those outside of the
Tidewater area, by connecting to W4VB-R (Node 311763).

4 October 2006 - The Norfolk 145.33 and 442.95 repeaters can be reached via EchoLink (W4VB-R Node # 311763). Both repeaters are linked together full time. A net runs Monday-Thursday at 7:30 pm Eastern time.
All hams are welcome to join in the net or at anytime on the repeaters via
EchoLink.

22 July 2006 - The 147.375 repeater is now on the air at its permanent location in Norfolk.  The repeater has a 440 MHz remote base, autopatch, and emergency power.  Thanks to N2NMH and KO4FR for their efforts in getting the system setup and on the air at the Fire Station today.

16 July 2006 - Here's the current weekly net schedule for 145.33/442.95:

Monday 7:30 pm - RASON Net
Tuesday 7:30 pm - RASON Net
Wednesday 7:30 pm - RASON Net
Thursday 7:30 pm - Norfolk ARES Net

21 May 2006 - 145.33 is back on the air.

15 May 2006 - The 145.33 transmitter was sounding bad and has been disabled until repairs/corrections are made.  The 147.375 repeater is linked to the 442.95 repeater and will remain Norfolk's Primary Repeater until 145.33 is restored.

19 March 2006 - The new 145.33/442.95 repeater system has been installed and is on the air.  There is still some work to be accomplished, but the repeaters are up and running.  Both repeaters share the same controller and are currently linked together full-time.  The remote base system is not yet functional.  The autopatch is operational on both the 145.33 and 442.95 repeaters, however, calls must be manually dialed as the autodialer and emergency speedial are not yet functional.

13 January 2006 - The repeater work planned for tomorrow will be rescheduled to a later date, thus the equipment swapout and CTCSS change won't happen quite yet.  Thanks for your patience.

01 January 2006 - Major work on the 145.33/442.95 repeater system is planned for Saturday-14 January.  Some interruptions to normal service may be expected during the period 13-16 January as preparations are made and bugs worked out.  The most recent newsletter mentioned our efforts regarding the 147.075 repeater.  As an update, our efforts in that regard have changed to using 147.375 (+600 input).  This new repeater will likely be on the air relatively soon after we finish the upgrade work on the 145.33/442.95 repeaters.

12 November 2005 - The latest newsletter has been posted online.  The "November 2005" link on the left side of this page will take you directly to the newsletter.

19 September 2005 - The RASON Net now meets on 145.33 each Sunday through Friday at 7:30 pm.

19 July 2005 - The WA4ZUA archives section of the webpage has been updated with more photos from various years of operation at the station.  Here is a link to the page:  http://www.w4vb.org/wa4zua2.htm
If you scroll down to the bottom of the page you will also find photos from
the old W4NPT club station at the Naval Air Station.  These photos were obtained from a photo album that WX9N presented to the WA4ZUA/NNN0NHA crew on 10 November 1992.

07 July 2005 - The Radio Amateur Society of Norfolk (RASON) holds a net on 145.33 each Sunday through Thursday at 7:30 pm.  They are having a breakfast get together on Saturday July 9 at 7:30 am at Golden Corral (Norview and Military Hwy, Norfolk).  A dinner meeting will be held on July 15 at 7:30 pm at the same location.

02 June 2005 - We plan to install new repeater equipment for 145.33 and 442.95 this summer, plus work on the antennas.  The exact date is still being determined.

08 Feb 05 - Autopatch codes for this year were sent by e-mail.  All members should have received them by now.

28 Nov 04 - The WA4ZUA archives page has been updated with more photos. Go to the "Links" page to get to the WA4ZUA pages.

10 Nov 04 - The tone access for 145.33 will be changing to 131.8.  At that point, all of our repeaters will be using the same CTCSS tone.

06 Nov 04 - The webpages for W4VB and WA4ZUA have been updated.

05 Nov 04 - Members may request to join the listserver by sending an e-mail to W4VB.

Last updated:  15 March 2008