Richmond Amateur Radio Club

Santa didn’t bring enough radio gear? Frostfest is the next-best-thing.

If Santa didn’t bring enough radio gear, Frostfest is the next-best-thing!  Frostfest will be held on Saturday, February 1st, 2020 at the Richmond Raceway Complex.

www.frostfest.com is the place to find all the information about this great hamfest!
Forum schedule includes presentations by:
  • AREDN / Amateur Radio Emergency Digital Network
  • Rich Moseson – Editorial Director at CQ Magazine (Live via Skype)
  • Dr. Tamitha Skov – “Space Weather Woman” (Live via Skype)
Many of your favorite vendors are already committed, and there will be more to come. Get a table or two and sell your excess equipment.
Check out all the details at www.frostfest.com

Designing and Constructing Magnetic Loop Antennas

Two presentations, one by John DeMajo, K5HTZ, and a second by Ken Zutavern, K4ZUT, at the 10 January 2020 RARC club meeting are outlined here.

John DeMajo Mag Loop presentation

John‘s presentation is available by clicking this link: loop-antenna-project

John’s spreadsheet calculator is at mag_loop_calculator.

Ken showed another design that used a hand-wound toroid transformer instead of a small loop to feed the large loop.

K4ZUT toroid transformer and motor-driven capacitor tuning

Ken’s loop also used a motor to turn the tuning capacitor. This allows him to locate the loop away from his operating position.

RARClub.net at new hosting site

If you have problems with this site, sent a note to richmondarclub@gmail.com.

After years of Chris Walker, N4CBW, generously hosting our website rarclub.net on his site, we’ve moved it to another server. It’s taken almost a month longer than than expected but the webmaster (W4BRU) is pretty rusty not having done this since 2009.

Ham Radio Launched on Balloon

Four cars of hams chased a balloon carrying APRS and launched from Franklin Military Academy, a Richmond city school. KN4CZZ, chemistry teacher at the school led this, his second launch from the school. This time he used APRS and got lots of hams to chase with him.

All but two of the chase team holding the prey on a country road in New Kent County near Providence Forge

Track from APRS.FI

It didn’t go far but it went high, 84,000 feet.

Checking the lift just before launch.

 

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