The presentation by Jim Condon (AD4YM) from the January 2019 meeting is now available on the club YouTube Channel or at: https://youtu.be/-ZXR-ih2chA
Technical Committee 2018 annual report
During 2018, we (generally myself and Jeff, K4OLW, with others also providing significant support) made 18 repeater site visits mostly to deal with audio drop out issues. This consumed countless man hours of effort dealing with Arcom as well as monitoring and testing possible solutions.… Read the rest
Awards Dinner Report by Michael Rein, KA4JJD, Chair Awards Committee
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2018 AARC Awards Banquet
The AARC Annual Awards Banquet will be held at the Doubletree Hotel, 990 Hilton Heights Rd,
Charlottesville, VA 22901, at 5:30 PM on Tuesday December 11, 2018. The total cost per person for their Chef’s Choice Buffet will be $20. This includes a non-alcoholic beverage and a cash bar will also be available.
AARC Demonstrates Ham Radio at Boy Scout Camporee
On Saturday, October 13, 2018, AARC members Dennis Terribile, WR4I; Ed Berkowitz, N3US; and Bob Romanko AK4BR set up a station and demonstrated Ham Radio to over 150 Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts and Adult leaders at the Apple Harvest Fall Camporee of the Stonewall Jackson Area Council. … Read the rest
ARES presentation at the Oct. AARC meeting
Mike McPherson, KQ9P discussed amateur radio and emergency services for the 21st Century at the October AARC Meeting.
You can view the video of his talk at: https://youtu.be/MQpAlHsA6hU… Read the rest
UVA Cubesat ready for launch
https://news.virginia.edu/content/student-built-spacecraft-ready-launch has an article on the cubesat KQ9P has been helping prepare. The article doesn’t go much into the communictions side, but it does show the ground control station – covered in an earlier article (https://news.virginia.edu/content/just-houston-engineering-students-begin-work-satellite-ground-station) that features a photo of KQ9P.… Read the rest
Repeater update September 5 2018
Jeff Heavlin and I made a trip to Bucks Elbow this morning to address the linking of the 146.925 (Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital) and 146.895 (Bucks Elbow site). On August 29, we had done the first “phase” when we installed a newer link radio and moved the Fusion repeater from service as the 444.250 repeater to service as the new 146.925 repeater.… Read the rest
Portable Operation
The presentation on portable operation of amateur radio stations at the August AARC meeting by Dennis Terrible, WR4i is now available on the club YouTube channel, or via the direct link https://youtu.be/ww83I0JISKo. It is a great way to learn some tricks that will let you operate all over the globe.… Read the rest
AARC Picnic: Rescheduled to Sept 23 Chris Greene Lake Park 5 PM NEAR CHO Airport
This year’s Picnic will now be held on Sunday, September 23 at Chris Greene Lake, Park, Shelter 1, north of CHO Airport. There is no entrance fee to the Park after Labor Day. Due to anticipated heavy rain on September 16, we decided to reschedule it to hopefully a dryer day, September 23 No need to re-register.… Read the rest