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
New entrance for RARC meetings and classes Club members and students of our classes will use a new entrance starting in October. It is the main church entrance on the south side of the building. The old entrance was on the north side of the building. The reasons for the change: No steps; nice for Read More …
Practice HF handling with pile-ups, contesting, and logging. Arrive early enough and you can get some antenna hanging experience. Field Day, “Junk in the Trunk” Swapfest, & VE Testing Please join Richmond Amateur Radio Club (RARC) and Richmond Amateur Telecommunications Society (RATS) for our combined club 2022 Field Day! Where Laurel Park 10301 Read More …
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 …
As hospitals started to fill again with Covid-19 cases we decided All the exam prep and skills seminar classes with Zoom: Order your textbook at www.arrl.org/shop/What-s-New/ for delivery to your home. By phone, call 888-277-5289 (US) ARRL Ham Radio License Manual 4th Edition, ISBN: 978-1-62595-106-9 ARRL General Class License Manual 9th Edition, ISBN:978-1-62595-106-9 ARRL Extra 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 …
From the ARRL website http://www.arrl.org/rf-exposure “The FCC has made changes to the RF-exposure rules that change the ways that radio stations can determine whether they are exempt from the need to do a routine RF-exposure station evaluation. To answer the questions HQ staff are receiving about these changes, ARRL has prepared an RF-exposure FAQ to Read More …
Bill (William) Hixson, KC4WCQ, of Chesterfield county, has passed away. His estate is selling his extensive ham radio equipment collection. See http://www.demajo.net/hixson/ for examples and contacts.
