About OCN
Old Codger Net (OCN)
The Old Codger Net (OCN) is a weekly on-the-air meeting of old codgers. In amateur radio lingo, it’s a Net. But this is not your tired, old, check-in – check-out, let’s-get-the-numbers-up, information Net. The OCN is a fun Net. And if you’re not careful while listening to the OCN, you will learn some off-the-wall, absolutely useless fact or statistic. Members of the OCN are veritable bottomless wells of useless, meaningless and trivial information. So please join us. Tune your scanner or amateur radio to the Short Mountain Repeater Club repeater frequency of 146.910 MHz every Monday night, beginning at 8:00 PM Central time.
OCN OFFICERS
President __________ Mickey Mouse
Vice-President ______ Goober
Secretary __________ Raquel Welch
Treasurer __________ Michael Milken
Complaints & Grievance should go to Helen Waite
REPEATER
The Old Codger Net is conducted on the W4YXA repeater located atop Short Mountain near Woodbury in Cannon County, Tennessee.
[ GPS coordinates - approx. 35° 51' 38" N 85° 58' 08" W ]
It operates at 146.910 / 146.310 MHz. The wide-area, open repeater regularly receives signals from northern Alabama, south-central and western Kentucky, and southern Indiana as well as all of middle Tennessee. Occasionally, stations in the Smoky Mountains of east Tennessee are able to use the repeater. For more information on the W4YXA repeater, visit the club’s web site here: Short Mountain Repeater Club
History of The Old Codger Net
The first meeting of the Old Codger Net (OCN) occurred on Monday night, 23 January 2006. Founding Father Roger -W4IV was net control operator and logged a total of 42 charter codgers for a grand start. Since the inaugural net, the OCN has met every Monday night. In just over a year and a half, the OCN has logged over 4,000 check-ins, and passed along more than six metric tons of timeless, useless information. Some of the 360+ codgers and codgerettes checked in with jokes, but mostly it’s just useless information. And I mean USELESS. Come to think of it, the jokes were pretty useless too. So tune your police scanner or amateur radio to the W4YXA Repeater (146.910 MHz) to listen in. If you’re a licensed amateur radio operator, dust off your rig, check in with us and tell us something interesting.
All amateur radio operators are invited to check in. You do not have to be a member of the OCN, or any other organization, to check in, but once you do, you are a member. Please join us. For more information on the OCN email:
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Obtaining an Old Codger Certificate
Turn up your hearing aids old codgers:
Obtaining an Old Codger certificate has never been easier. Here’s how you do it:
Send an e-mail to ———- and include the following information:
- your callsign
- the name you want on the certificate
- your age, but only if you are male… certificates are age specific for men
You will in turn receive your personalized OCN Certificate as a pdf attachment which can be printed to your old heart’s content.
Finally, if you do not have an e-mail account call one of your grandchildren and read this notice to them. Then explain to them how it is you can read a notice on the Interwebs, but you do not have an e-mail address. If you have any questions, contact James WD8RYC at the e-mail address provided above, or on the Short Mountain 91 repeater.
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