The first PS event of the 2019 season is coming up on Saturday, March 9. The Bel Monte Endurance Run with 13, 25 and 50 mile courses starts and finishes at the Royal Oak Campground located where Rt 814 intersects the Blue Ridge Parkway.… Read the rest
6-9pm at the Fontaine Fire Station February 12
or 6-9pm at the Crozet Library February 27
Learn to prepare for disasters that could impact your community. In an emergency, CERT members assist others when professional responders are not immediately available, and take a more active role in emergency preparedness projects. … Read the rest
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
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
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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.
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
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
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