Author: W4BRU

Group mentoring

An Invitation from Dominion DX Group Kenny Silverman, K2KW, will be joining our Dominion DX Group meeting in person on Saturday, March 23rd, to present on “VP2VMM: A low power effort with big results: Using verticals-on-the-beach in the 2023 ARRL 10m Contest” Kenny is the leader of a group called Team Vertical, which uses verticals-on-the-beach Read More …

The July 2023 RARC meeting featured a presentation by Gordon Waller on “Batteries for Military Radios.” The video of the presentation is on the RARC YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@rarcchannel3576. The slides are available by clicking this: RadioClubPresentation_071423.    

Widely known around the RVA, Chuck Smith, W4SVR, died in February, 2023. His estate included a very large inventory of ham and other electronic gear. Go to https://www.grspmx.com/w4svr.htm for the list and the contract to acquire gear.

See https://rarclub.net/loaner-gear-richmond-amateur-radio-club/ for a description of the equipment available and how to check one out.

Some club members requested the slides. You can download it as a PDF at https://rarclub.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/RARC-remote-station-class-spring2021.pdf For more technical detail, see the 2017 presentation by K8OI at https://rarclub.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017-05-RARC-Remotehams-Presentation-v2.pdf

Michael Friedman, W4MAF, has been leading a group defining and publishing common simplex VHF simplex frequencies used in the Richmond area. Examples are the favorite SOTA and POTA frequencies and those that are meeting places for geographic areas. 146.520 National Simplex Calling 146.490 Richmond Simplex General Use Working Frequency and Range Testing 146.580 Adventure Frequency Read More …

George Starke, WB4VWR, created these handouts for the “New Hams Workshop” in April 2022. They contain useful information for all hams. Click the links below to view and, if you wish, print them. Communicating with Hams1 Frequency for Radios Note that repeater frequencies change. Finding a dependable and up-to-date list of working repeaters is difficult. Read More …

The students entered the freight area of the old train station and found John DeMajo, K5HTZ, sitting at the first table with lengths of copper pipe prepared to show how to build and tune a 2-meter J-Pole. The students learned about SWR and antenna analyzers. The next pair of tables were for building and testing Read More …

Key members of the RARC space station contact team met with the faculty at Woodson Middle School in Hopewell where the ARISS contact will be made. It’s a thoroughly modern school with good facilities. The school is scheduled to have a contact between January and June 2022. The RARC team: Teaches and leads labs in Read More …