N8LHG and N8TRZ Radio Station
Official RACES/ARES Emergency Station

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N8LHG / N8TRZ Radio Station is located in Ostrander Ohio. It is owned and operated by Mark and Ruth Wardell (N8LHG and N8TRZ). It is one of Union County's official RACES/ARES emergency stations. 

The stations radio equipment includes HF abilities in voice, as well as numerous analog/digital modes. Monitoring abilities cover 50 KHz through 3 GHz in a wide variety of digital and analog modes. 

Station includes a full time emergency power system which uses a bank of deep cycle batteries for power (This was done out of necessity, living in the country, power tends to cycle on and off quite often for no apparent reason). Station operation can continue at reduced power during these times for about 12 hours before needing a charge. Full power, the station can maintain operation for about 6 hours.

The antenna system includes a 160 meter 1/2 wave dipole, a long random length wire, a variety of antenna appendages located on its 70 foot guided tower. Total antenna cables into the shack support over 30 separate antennas to cover the full abilities of the operating station.

The station also supports an intelligent and fully automatic weather supervisory system known as Uranium (for radio active weather). This system is used in central Ohio by a variety of public service units including Ohio State Police, Union County Police, Union County EMA, as well as the Wilmington NWS. There are currently 6 Uranium hosts in Central Ohio, to be expanded to 8 by the end of 2001. These stations transmit extremely detailed, dynamic weather data to specially equipped monitoring stations. If you are interested in monitoring this weather data, the program can be downloaded at the Union County RACES web site. The program is available free of charge to legally licensed amateurs. A simple registration is all that is required.

The weather data is transmitted on 145.010 MHz, and relayed by several high profile nodes. Reception of the weather data blankets most of Central Ohio.

Uranium Weather Reporting