Category: News & Events

The September newsletter can be found here. See you at the Virtual meeting Friday 9/11/2020

The Richmond Amateur Radio Club has received a large donation of vacuum tubes. All tubes in this collection have been recently tested on an emission tube checker, verified as “good” and individually boxed with appropriate identification. With the ever lurking possibility of damage to solid-state radios from natural or man-made EMPs, as well as the Read More …

Our August meeting is now on our YouTube Channel follow the link below

The August newsletter can be found here. See you Friday 14, 2020 at the Zoom meeting, details in the newsletter.

An updated version of the Google Earth KLM file, as of July 30,2020 , is available at this link

Watch George Starke, WB4VWR, demonstrate the use of the under-$60 nanoVNA (Vector Network Analyzer and Antenna Analyzer). Here is a link to the Zoom Virtual meeting of the RARC’s July meeting on our YouTube channel,

The July News letter is posted here This month the RARC meeting will be completely on Zoom, no 2-meter radio part. For those of you have a problem with using Zoom, note that you can join the meeting using just a phone, landline or cell phone, no zoom app needed. Granted you will miss any Read More …

Reaching out from 730 feet (AGL) near the merger of I-195, I-95, and I-64 sits the antenna for the MRA (Metropolitan Repeater Association), 145.43. It is a nice complement to the RATS 146.88 repeater in the southwestern part of the metro area. 145.43 has a long reach north towards Fredericksburg, west to Mineral, east to Read More …

The Richmond Amateur Radio Club is inviting you to our Monthly meeting. Topic: Electromagnetic Radiation effect on the human body by Rick Waller, KA4OHM. Time: Friday Jun 12, 2020 07:00 PM Eastern Time The audio for the business part of the meeting and the checkins will be on the Chesterfield repeater, 137.60 with no tone Read More …

There is now a new how to area on the website, on the right under RARC. Currently there are 3 sets of instructions How to change your address with the FCC How to renew license with the  FCC How to find where Hams are in Virginia (FM17 grid, and several club’s members), and all of Read More …