RARC test gear ready for loan to members
See https://rarclub.net/loaner-gear-richmond-amateur-radio-club/ for a description of the equipment available and how to check one out.
Category: News & Events
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Remote station presentation slides
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
Commonly use VHF simplex frequencies in the area
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 …
Handouts on how to Communicate & Local Frequencies
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 …
New Hams Workshop – the first of a series of three
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 …
RARC Space Station team visits school
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 …
The FCC has made changes to the RF-exposure rules with 2023 deadline
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 …
Operating the RARC remotely controlled station – Seminar
RARC Remotely Controlled Station – setup and operation A two-evening seminar on the club’s remotely controlled station. It’s open to 12 club members, just enough to fill a Zoom screen. The cost is $10. Tuesday March 16, 7 to 9pm on Zoom, description, tour, and demonstration. Tuesday March 30, 7 to 9pm on Zoom, a Read More …
3D Printer forms
Look under the Forms section of the website to see the 3D printer files to Print the forms created by John Portune W6NBC that he discussed at our February meeting.
Hand-held new law
As you may remember the “distracted driver” law currently in effect was for just work zones and amateur radio was not an exception to the law. This last legislature session passed a new version of the state law (H 874 on March 10 2020) that applies to the whole state. The good news is that Read More …