Albemarle Amateur Radio Club
Central Virginia Repeater Century Award
Our President states, “To encourage use of repeaters in Central Virginia and in celebration of our 50th year as a radio club, the Albemarle Amateur Radio Club announces the “Central Virginia Repeater Century Awardâ€.”… Read the rest
| Callsign | Frequency |
|---|---|
| WA4TFZ | 146.760Mhz |
| WA4DND | 146.730Mhz |
You can use some, but not all HTML markup in your posts/stories on the club website. Just below the box where you type your content, you will see a collapsed section title labelled “Input format”.… Read the rest
In this tutorial, I will show how to create a basic story on the website with no pictures, tables, lists, code listings, or other HTML. With the information in this tutorial, you should be able to post a simple quick and dirty story on the club website, such as 90% of the stories published in the first 2-1/2 years of this website being hosted using drupal but not a fancier page such as this tutorial page or some of my recent postings.… Read the rest
The Albemarle Amateur Radio Club will meet in the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA on July 9 at 7:30 pm. Charles Battig K4TY will give a presentation on Smart Meters (home electric service meters) and RFI.
The president has called a board meeting for 7 pm.… Read the rest
This is just starting to percolate into the news. The FCC last friday approved release of google’s TV white spaces database which documents what unused TV channels may be used for wireless internet access type services in which areas. You can browse a visual representation in google maps:
http://www.google.org/spectrum/whitespace/channel/… Read the rest
As some already know, the 146.730 repeater is usually connected via IRLP to the East Coast Reflector (9050). To see the current nodes connected to 9050 go to:
http://irlp.g4eid.co.uk/status/usaVAplusrefs.html
The 73 repeater uses a simplex UHF frequency on the 2nd port of the repeater controller to communicate with another UHF radio at the 4703 node located at Zehmer Hall on UVA grounds.… Read the rest
Jim’s field day photo’s have been uploaded to the photo gallery. Mine were posted there five days earlier.
This is the text of your story. Do not put carriage returns at the end of each line of text inside a paragraph but instead let the computer wrap the words; otherwise it will not reformat nicely when the window is resized.… Read the rest
| Frequency | Offset | Tone | Emergency Power | Other | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52.5250 | simplex | National Simplex Calling Frequency | ||||
| 144.3900 | simplex | APRS | ||||
| 145.7300 | simplex | VA Section Packet Radio | ||||
| 146.5200 | simplex | National Simplex Calling Frequency | ||||
| 146.5250 | simplex | National Fox Hunt Frequency/Voice simplex | ||||
| 146.5500 | simplex | AARC 2M Simplex | ||||
| 146.5800 | simplex | Greene County Simplex | ||||
| 147.5400 | simplex | AARC 2M Simplex | ||||
| 145.1700 | minus | 151.4 | W4FCO – Fluvanna County | generator | ||
| 145.4500 | minus | 151.4 | K4DND – Martha Jefferson Hospital | emergency power | ||
| 146.7300 | minus | 151.4 | K4DND – Carter’s Mt | battery and generator | IRLP Node #4703 | |
| 146.7600 | minus | 151.4 | WA4TFZ – Marshall Manor | battery only | net mode links to 444.000 | |
| 146.7900 | minus | 110.4 | WW4GW – Spear’s Mt | solar and wind | CVRA link system | |
| 146.8800 | minus | 74.4 | W4RAT – Richmond | emergency power | ||
| 146.8950 | minus | 151.4 | WA4TFZ – Bucks Elbow | generator only | ||
| 146.9250 | minus | 151.4 | WA4TFZ – Heard’s Mt | battery only | ||
| 147.0750 | plus | none | W4PNT – Bear Den | battery only | ||
| 147.1200 | plus | 146.2 | W4CUL – Orange County | ? |
48 Pages from 15 different years, 21.7MB download:
https://www.albemarleradio.org/beacon/issues/fieldday_clips.pdf
Some pages appear half size due to mixing from different pdf resolutions. Zoom as needed.
Many pages are marked with year and month, but some are not. Here was the list of files (filename is year and month) and page numbers.… Read the rest