Saturday, October 3, 2026 - 10am to 4pm Address: North Park Lodge, Allison Park, PA 15101 Coords: 40.61735527081611, -80.01698911186614 / Grid: EN90xo To help bring awareness to and showcase our hobby, we will be hosting an Amateur Radio Event Station at the Western PA Furry Weekend. We are advertising the event in the hopes that we can elicit some activity and engage interested attendees to understand and participate in the amateur radio hobby. WPAFW, short for Western Pennsylvania Furry Weekend, is a three-day event held every October at North Park in Pittsburgh, PA. The event’s primary mission is to raise funds for non-profit institutions that promote the well-being of humans and animals. Secondarily, it also facilitates education and outreach related to anthropomorphic art and literature. For more information visit https://wpafw.org Event Station Operations: Listen for our operators calling CQ on HF for the “WPAFW Radio Event Station.” Calls on VHF/UHF will be made once every 10 minutes when not in use by other local stations. We will be monitoring a local VHF Repeater with Echolink Node during the top half of the hour, and a local UHF repeater with an Echolink node during the bottom half of the hour, each hour. We will be monitoring the General SSB portion of 40, 20, 17, 15 and 12-meter bands, and the Technician SSB portion of the 10-meter band, hour by hour, starting at 10:00am. This is our first year and we’re keeping it simple. We will not have Digital or CW capabilities this year. On the air Schedule: Top half of the hour – VHF Bottom half of the hour – UHF 10:00am – 40 meters 11:00am – 20 meters 12:00pm - 17 meters 01:00pm – 15 meters 02:00pm – 12 meters 03:00pm – 10 meters Frequencies will be updated here in the QRZ Forums! QSL Certificates: A commemorative WPAFW 2026 Event Station QSL Certificate is available for confirmed contacts. We will send the certificate digitally to the email provided in your QRZ profile. Thank you for your interest and we look forward to making contact with you!
Our Event Radio Station will be going LIVE in just a few days! The other operators and I are excited and looking forward to working your Station with ours. We will be monitoring VHF (2-meters) the W3EXW Repeater, 147.090 Mhz, Offset +0.600 Mhz, PL 88.5, Echolink Node 885999, during the top half of the hour, and UHF (70 cm) W3YJ Repeater, 443.450 Mhz, Offset +, Tone 100.0 Hz CTCSS, Echolink Node 443450, during the bottom half of the hour. We will not be actively soliciting contacts on those frequencies, but we will responding to call outs to our Event Station "WPAFW Event Radio Station" and to regular local amateur radio operators to showcase Repeater operations and using EchoLink as part of our Educational content. Just an update before the event to give interested parties time to get ready. (EchoLink set up can take some time) 73's! Glen Rockhill, KS3IFT
40 meters was a bust. We couldn't get the Buddy-pole to tune. We are currently monitoring 20-meters until 12:00 ET on 14.303 Mhz
Moving to 15 meters, operating on 21.391 Mhz until 14:00 ET. Thank you to the stations we worked in Texas on 17-meters!
Moved to 12-meters and operating on 24.940 Mhz. We'll be here until 15:00 ET. Come and work our field station!
We're on 10-meters! It's our last hop and our last hour on the air for the event. Work us on 28.300 Mhz until 16:00 ET
We've decided to give 20-meters another go for a few more minutes. Check for us on 14.282 Mhz. Trying to reach a few more stations.
Okay, we're done! 2026 is in the books! Thank you for the stations who worked us. QSL cards will be sent in a few weeks by email.
