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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 …
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 …
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 …
The recording of the RARC September meeting and Presentation on Pi-Star Hotspots can now be view on RARC’s YouTube channel. Follow the link here .
The recording of the RARC August meeting and Presentation by Fred Kemmerer President of the Nashua radio club on how the club transformed itself and became ARRL’s club of the year in 2019 can now be view on RARC’s YouTube channel. Follow the link here .
Our June meeting and presentation on life as a Ham in Russia is now available on our YouTube channel. See our YouTube channel page to here on our website to get the line or view our featured content.
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 recording of the RARC May’s meeting and Presentation titled RF Exposure Evaluation can now be view on RARC’s YouTube channel. Follow the link here
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 …
The recording of the RARC April’s meeting and Presentation titled Summits on the Air can now be view on RARC’s YouTube channel. Follow the link here
