June’s 2025 meeting Zoom link & Newsletter

For the newsletter click https://rarclub.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/RARC-Notice-2025-06.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 …

May’s 2025 meeting Zoom link & Newsletter

For the newsletter click https://rarclub.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/RARC-Notice-2025-05.pdf The May 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 …

April’s 2025 meeting Zoom link & Newsletter

For the newsletter click https://rarclub.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/RARC-Notice-2025-04.pdf The April 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 …

March 23rd – Using verticals-on-the-beach, K2KW

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 …

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 …