AARC is once again providing communications support for the Bike MS Tour De Vine (formerly known as the MS-150) which is a two day bike ride on Saturday June 14 and Sunday June 15. AARC has supported this event for decades.… Read the rest
We invite you to join us for the next step in this exploration, a ?Digital EmComm Summit,? to be held on Saturday, 31 May 2014, from 9am until noon at the Dunlora Community Clubhouse, 1195 River Oaks Ln., Charlottesville, VA, 22901.… Read the rest
Signup for operating shifts is now available! Click on the big green button to go to the VolunteerSpot Web site:
More details will be available soon…… Read the rest
Meeting is at 7:30PM EST. 
Presentation: Dave Damon K4DND will be talking about IRLP
Meeting Location: NRAO Auditorium, 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA.
Lat/Long: geo:38.036817,-78.518115
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Board Meeting is at 7:00PM, same room. There may be an ARES meeting at 6:30PM in the Parking Lot.… Read the rest
The grand opening for the New Fontaine Ave Fire Station is Saturday from 11AM to 3PM, Rain or Shine. Be prepared for rain as the hourly weather forecast on weatherbug has 50% chance of rain during the event hours.… Read the rest
I’ve successfully built Stephen Ong’s ViewRF RTL-SDR Spectrum Analyzer. If you are interested in cool things that you can do with these little devices check out Stephen’s YouTube demo and my project page.
73, Mike KQ9P… Read the rest
The Dayton Hamvention, the largest hamfest in North America is coming Friday 2014-05-16 through Sunday 2014-05-18. Although it is 7 hours away, a number of AARC members will be attending.
Website: http://www.hamvention.org/
Add this specific event to your calendar:
Note that there are one or more hamfests listed on the club calendar in Virginia or neighbouring states almost every weekend for the next 3 months, except for field day and independence day.… Read the rest
UPDATE: Kicksat has successfully launched.
Sprites will be deployed around 2014-05-04 15:45 EDT.
Kicksat orbit is predicted to decay around 2014-05-14.
Frequencies: https://github.com/zacinaction/kicksat/wiki/Radio-Info
Technical difficulties aside, there is a 40% chance weather will permit kicksat to launch Friday and a 36% chance it will launch saturday for a total probablity of 76%.… Read the rest
Bob Pattison, K4DU, writes:
For quite some time now the Earlysville Volunteer Fire Department (EVFD) has supported the Albemarle Amateur Radio Club (AARC) by hosting our annual Field Day station. At the most recent AARC meeting it was suggested that we, the members of the AARC, should support the EVFD by attending their Spring Barbecue.… Read the rest
“Our launch is officially on for tomorrow (April 14th) at 4:59 PM EDT. ”
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zacinaction/kicksat-your-personal-spacecraft-in-space/posts/
Kiscksat (the cubesat) should be transmitting tomorrow evening.
Sprites will be deployed 16 days later.
There is also a lunar eclipse late monday night, early morning (roughly 1AM-5PM) Weather conditions: partly cloudy (wunderground hourly forecast).… Read the rest