Hi! We wish you a hearty Yooper welcome and thanks for visiting our neck of the woods.

Located in Michigan's northernmost county, the KCRA was originally established in 1983 to provide amateur radio service in rugged and rural Keweenaw County and nearby coastal waters. Today, the K8MDH repeater reaches from Thunder Bay, ON to the Lake Superior shore in Alger and Marquette Counties.

Skywarn

Skywarn is an organization that closely interfaces with the National Weather Service to assist in severe weather preparedness. KCRA is very organized in local Skywarn activities. We feature a weekly net and host the U.P. Skywarn website. This site has the latest forecasts, radar images, satellite images, and information about APRS in the Upper Peninsula. Find out how to get on the APRS network and start submitting your observations to the NWS.

Latest KCRA News

Join us at 7pm on April 14, 2010 for the club's quarterly meeting at K8YSZ's home on 1108 Bumbletown Rd, 0.9 mi from the BP gas station in Ahmeek.

BUILDING FUND: Donations earmarked for the BUILDING FUND are now being accepted. An anonymous lender provided us the necessary funds to complete this project last year, as our treasury could not support this very necessary project. If you wish to make a donation toward this project please mark it as "BUILDING FUND" in the notation on your check. Your help is very much appreciated. Mailing address is

KCRA - Building Fund
225 Kearsarge St.
Laurium, MI 49913

Get your own desktop UTC clock that is the size of your windows clock. It's neat and can be placed right next to the main clock on your screen!

What's this that I heard about about our APRS network being used for text messaging? Well, for one, you don't have to pay $0.15/message to send one nationwide. Get into APRS now! It's a hybrid VHF packet radio and internet tactical communications system for weather reports, text messaging, and vehicle position reporting. The best thing is that there is an extensive network of digipeaters and internet gateways NATIONWIDE and especially in the Copper Country!

Education Corner

This video explains how to build your own copper J-pole antenna for 2m.

National Ham News

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