One of the take-aways from the survey concerning the Digital Net is that we may be doing it a bit too often to be sustainable. So, starting with this week, the AARC Digital Net will meet on the first and third Mondays of each month, starting at 8:15pm on the 146.730 repeater (thanks, Dave K4DND!).… Read the rest
Know Your GPS
Garmin Nuvi 255W GPS
Photo: AK4OL, CC-BY-3.0-US
Do you know how to get coordinates in and out of your GPS? As staggering as this is, given that latitude and longitude are the fundamental units a GPS works with, many older car GPS units don’t let you enter or retrieve these coordinates.… Read the rest
Boys and Girl’s Club Cycling Challenge: recap
13 AARC members participated
- W4BXG: Flamini, Joe. AARC Organizer, roaming
- KK4SHO: Wiley, Andrew D. Boonsville rest stop?
- AK4OL: Whitis, Mark. Broadus Wood Elementary School Rest Stop, Propagation study, web site.
- N4UVA: Eason, Jr., Donald H. Brodus Wood Elementary School Rest Stop
- KT4UO: Henderson, Teri – White Hall Community Center Rest Stop
- K4JEC: Crosby, James E
- K4PMC: Crosby, Patsy M
- KD4VPE: Anderson, Ken – White Hall Community Center Rest Stop (Membership Pending)
- K2SSB: Hazen, Stanley
- KB4EPK: Eicher, Lawrence R
- KJ4RPW: Scott, Jonathan.
Makerspace preview at McIntire Plaza Fall Festival and Open House
Preliminary sketchup model of future makerspace.
Photo: Michael Asaro and Google
The local maker group organizer is taking possession of the rental property to be used for his woodworking business and the future local makerspace (Community Shop) on Nov 1. The shopping center which houses this happens to be having an open house from 2PM to 6PM this saturday 2013-09-14 and the Maker Group will have a table set out.… Read the rest
Sat 2013-09-14 Breakfast: Panera bread
Hot Air Balloon over Panera
During AARC Breakfast Gathering
Click to enlarge
Photo Credit: Mark Whitis AK4OL
License: CC-BY-3.0US
Mike Gilmore K8RVR writes:
… Read the restCoffee and Danish sound good to you?
This is a reminder for those not going to the VA Beach Hamfest, this Saturday is our bi-weekly breakfast gathering.
Saturday.2013-09-14: Virginia Beach Hamfest/ARRL Roanoke Divisin Convention.
We have a VE session and breakfast on saturday and a public service event on sunday, but saturday is also the VA Beach Hamfest, also known as the ARRL Roanoke Division Convention, SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 9AM-4PM.
http://www.vbhamfest.com/… Read the rest
Joe’s Book
Here is the book Bob K4DU held up at the picnic, the self-published memoirs of our our own blind ham Joe Giovanelli, W2PVY. You can buy it at iUniverse or Amazon Amazon; but you might check with Joe first about the best place to buy it; he might have copies locally or prefer exposure on one site or another and the authors cut may vary depending on source.… Read the rest
AARC Digital Net Survey (Results!)
The results are in!
Comments:
– Not sure if I can join from the Netherlands…
– I would like to somehow maintain simplicity for new users as well as steadily add more functions.
– Don’t give up Mike – it will be Fall – then Winter – and people will participate again.… Read the rest
KickSat Sprite Satellite Ground Station Project Gets Off the Ground (sorry about that…)
There is a lot of action on the Club’s KickSat Sprite ground station project. In the late spring of this year, Bill K4IB, proposed that we establish one of the network of ground stations to support the launch of Cornell graduate student Zac Manchester’s constellation of femtosatellites, named “Sprites†by Zac and colleagues.… Read the rest
Propagation Maps (Updated)
Combined map with BGCCC 2013, Gran Fondo Virginia 2013, Miller School Road Race 2013, MS150 Tour de Vine (multiple years), Jefferson cup (multiple years) race/ride routes, local repeaters, 7.5minute quadrangle grid, and line of sight (LOS) propagation overlay for 146.760, 146.925, and 146.895 repeaters.… Read the rest