Business meeting The first 10 to 20 minutes are the business of the club. Reports on the finances, new members, the school, the club stations, etc. are covered. Program The rest of the meeting is the usual technical program. For October program is by Robert Orndorff, W4BNO. The subject: “Solar Numbers and Amateur Radio”; this Read More …
Program Rig control, logging, and digital modes with a Raspberry Pi Bruce MacAlister, W4BRU, will attempt a live demonstration of rig control with a $35 hand-sized Raspberry Pi computer from his station. He’ll have a few slides on hand in case the live demo goes … well you know how live demos can go. Read More …
The Richmond Amateur Radio Club has received a large donation of vacuum tubes. All tubes in this collection have been recently tested on an emission tube checker, verified as “good” and individually boxed with appropriate identification. With the ever lurking possibility of damage to solid-state radios from natural or man-made EMPs, as well as the Read More …
Registration ended September 8th at 8pm. Classes start September 15 via Zoom. Spring classes will be announced sometime in early January 2021.
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Reaching out from 730 feet (AGL) near the merger of I-195, I-95, and I-64 sits the antenna for the MRA (Metropolitan Repeater Association), 145.43. It is a nice complement to the RATS 146.88 repeater in the southwestern part of the metro area. 145.43 has a long reach north towards Fredericksburg, west to Mineral, east to Read More …
The Richmond Amateur Radio Club is inviting you to our Monthly meeting. Topic: Electromagnetic Radiation effect on the human body by Rick Waller, KA4OHM. Time: Friday Jun 12, 2020 07:00 PM Eastern Time The audio for the business part of the meeting and the checkins will be on the Chesterfield repeater, 137.60 with no tone Read More …
With proper “social distancing” the RARC met on 13 March. Because many could not be there, the presentation was recorded. Find it at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ypQaQ0w5BU&feature=youtu.be
Two presentations, one by John DeMajo, K5HTZ, and a second by Ken Zutavern, K4ZUT, at the 10 January 2020 RARC club meeting are outlined here. John‘s presentation is available by clicking this link: loop-antenna-project John’s spreadsheet calculator is at mag_loop_calculator. Ken showed another design that used a hand-wound toroid transformer instead of a small loop Read More …
If you have problems with this site, sent a note to richmondarclub@gmail.com. After years of Chris Walker, N4CBW, generously hosting our website rarclub.net on his site, we’ve moved it to another server. It’s taken almost a month longer than than expected but the webmaster (W4BRU) is pretty rusty not having done this since 2009.
November 9th, 2019 A table of radios the makers made, a CW station, an SDR receiver with loop antenna and a spectrum display, and a SSB station. Time for ham radio fun.
A recording of the June club meeting presentation at the Richmond Amateur Radio Club. You can view it by searching for “youtube ken zutavern test bench” or clicking https://youtu.be/YpAw7doAN28.
Four cars of hams chased a balloon carrying APRS and launched from Franklin Military Academy, a Richmond city school. KN4CZZ, chemistry teacher at the school led this, his second launch from the school. This time he used APRS and got lots of hams to chase with him. It didn’t go far but it went high, Read More …
Jim Bates, K8OI, on who is gathering what information on you and how they are using it. And, what you can do to minimize it. Click 2019-02 – RARC Privacy and Security v2019-01-11
Photos by WA1UQO & W4BRU
