The July 2023 RARC meeting featured a presentation by Gordon Waller on “Batteries for Military Radios.” The video of the presentation is on the RARC YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@rarcchannel3576. The slides are available by clicking this: RadioClubPresentation_071423.
Widely known around the RVA, Chuck Smith, W4SVR, died in February, 2023. His estate included a very large inventory of ham and other electronic gear. Go to https://www.grspmx.com/w4svr.htm for the list and the contract to acquire gear.
See https://rarclubackup.website/loaner-gear-richmond-amateur-radio-club/ for a description of the equipment available and how to check one out.
Skills Seminars Remote Station setup and operation, 2 Wednesday nights 7 to 9pm via Zoom, 03/08/23 and 03/15/23, instructor Bruce MacAlister, W4BRU. You must be a member of the club to use the RARC remote station. DStar setup and operation, Saturday, 03/25/2023 9 to 11am in a classroom at Bon Air United Methodist Church, instructor Read More …
The instructors are in place, the classrooms have been reserved, the schedule has been posted, and the registrations form put on the website. See https://rarclubackup.website/license/class-schedules/
Some club members requested the slides. You can download it as a PDF at https://rarclubackup.website/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/RARC-remote-station-class-spring2021.pdf For more technical detail, see the 2017 presentation by K8OI at https://rarclubackup.website/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017-05-RARC-Remotehams-Presentation-v2.pdf
New entrance for RARC meetings and classes Club members and students of our classes will use a new entrance starting in October. It is the main church entrance on the south side of the building. The old entrance was on the north side of the building. The reasons for the change: No steps; nice for Read More …
Practice HF handling with pile-ups, contesting, and logging. Arrive early enough and you can get some antenna hanging experience. Field Day, “Junk in the Trunk” Swapfest, & VE Testing Please join Richmond Amateur Radio Club (RARC) and Richmond Amateur Telecommunications Society (RATS) for our combined club 2022 Field Day! Where Laurel Park 10301 Read More …
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 …
