Skills Seminars Remote Station setup and operation, 2 Wednesday nights 7 to 9pm via Zoom, 03/08/23 and 03/15/23, instructor Bruce MacAlister, W4BRU. You must be a member of the club to use the RARC remote station. DStar setup and operation, Saturday, 03/25/2023 9 to 11am in a classroom at Bon Air United Methodist Church, instructor Read More …
The instructors are in place, the classrooms have been reserved, the schedule has been posted, and the registrations form put on the website. See https://rarclub.net/license/class-schedules/
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 …
