Category: News & Events

The recording of the RARC August meeting can now be view on RARC’s YouTube channel, the program was on Dstar getting connected. Click this link to go to the club’s YouTube channel.

For the newsletter click https://rarclub.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/RARC-Notice-2026-08.pdf The August meeting is hybrid, those who wish to meet in-person can meet at the church (remember the new entrance – see website) or the meeting will available by Zoom interactive live-stream. This meeting we will be using new hardware, OWLs, to greatly improve on the Zoom experience. Please send Read More …

A new version of the VAMaster.kmz file, as of 07/05/2026, has been posted.  The file is used with Google Earth to show you where the hams and repeaters are in Virginia. You can read here to learn how to use the file.

For the newsletter click https://rarclub.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/RARC-Notice-2026-07.pdf The July meeting is hybrid, those who wish to meet in-person can meet at the church (remember the new entrance – see website) or the meeting will available by Zoom interactive live-stream. This meeting we will be using new hardware, OWLs, to greatly improve on the Zoom experience. Please send Read More …

The recording of the RARC June meeting can now be view on RARC’s YouTube channel, the program was on Getting on the air. The program is not part of the recording. Follow the link here. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU_nidqvkQzKvsa8s6oIMkg

For the newsletter click https://rarclub.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/RARC-Notice-2026-06.pdf The June meeting is hybrid, those who wish to meet in-person can meet at the church (remember the new entrance – see website) or the meeting will available by Zoom interactive live-stream. This meeting we will be using new hardware, OWLs, to greatly improve on the Zoom experience. Please send Read More …

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 …

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 …