RARC at the 2018 RVA MakerFest
Photos by WA1UQO & W4BRU
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History of Radio slides
The history of radio – and a museum to go with it – is a passion for RARC member John DeMajo, K5HTZ. In edition of his series in the RARC monthly newsletter, he presents it as a series of slides. Some have asked for the slides. You can get a PDF copy by clicking radio_history.
Hams at the 2017 RVA MakerFest
Clockwise John King, WB4NHX, gets the SDR receiver and its large spectrum display going. Bruce MacAlister, W4BRU, and Rick Waller, KA4OHM, show an Arrow (brand) dual-band Yagi-Udo antenna used to talk via ham satellites. Maylon Pearman, N4EG, answers questions. Tom Ebbert, KQ4BIZ, (in the striped shirt) shows how Manhattan-style circuits are built. Rick Waller, KA4OHM, […]
The beginnings of radio from the Museum of Yesterday
By John DeMajo, K5HTZ Click The beginnings of radio from the Museum of Yesterday
DMR radios available for Special Olympics
The June 9-10 Virginia Special Olympics is using DMR digital HTs this year. Don’t have one? Not to worry. The leadership got a stash of them. Special Olympics is always fun and rewarding. If you’ve not used a digital ham radio, you get an added bonus of learning how.
RARC at the RVA MakerFest 2016
8000. Actually, well about 7,800 counted and an estimated 5% who got in other entrances and were not counted for the RVA MakerFest 2016 at the science museum. We at the Richmond Amateur Radio Club table certainly had plenty of visitors. We had more with real interest than we’d had in the past two years.
RVA MakerFest – Science Museum – Ham Radio Present
Saturday, 24 September, 10am to 5pm, Science Museum of Virginia, 2500 West Broad Street, free admission and ham radio will be there, track level, near the trolley, convenient to the food trucks and the beer. Don’t miss it.
NA1SS QSL card received
We sent ARISS our 100th anniversary QSL card for the 6 July contact. And a SASE, of course. We got their QSL card back. Below is a panoramic view of the ISS contact on July 6.
International Space Station Contact done 6 July
At 1:29 UTC (10:29am EDT), 14 students and 6 instructors asked questions of astronaut Jeff Williams, KD5TVQ, aboard the ISS (International Space Station). it was part of the “Space Station Camp,” a joint project of the Science Museum of Virginia and six RVA amateur radio clubs with the RARC taking the lead. Since our RARC […]
All code all day at the Old Dominion Chapter of the Railroad Historical Society station
We set up three stations and three antennas for three bands for W4ZA/100 special event stations. It was strange. The CW end of the bands were dead. The SSB portion was open but crowded with QSO parties and contests. You couldn’t get a phone-voice signal in sideways if you tried. Mostly, though, we were about […]