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Volunteers Needed! Contact Joe Flamini W4BXG.

We have sketchy last minute info that our help is needed for an unnamed bike race on sunday:

On another note, Kenneth Kang just e-mailed me informing me of another (new) bike race that he needs comms for.

Crozet quadrangle

The following 7.5minute quadrangles cover the routes for the BGCCC, Gran Fondo Virginia, and Miller School Bike Race: Swift Run Gap, Stanardsville, Browns Cove, Free Union, Earlysville, Waynesboro East, Crozet, Greenfield, Covesville, Alberene, Schuyler, Esmont, and Howardsville. Charlottesville West, Charlottesville East, and Simeon would also be desirable as they cover the area immediately around Charlottesville, including some of our repeater locations.… Read the rest

Volunteers Needed! Contact Joe Flamini W4BXG.
Joe Flamini W4BXG wrote:

Hi, All—
The Boys & Girls Club Race is in two weeks (Sunday, 15 September), and we need a few conscripts. I’m actually gonna be a part of this one, so I need six more souls.

Fox Hunters from May 2013 fox hunt

This will be after our usual every other saturday breakfast. You don’t have to come to breakfast but, like last time, we will have the fox there and turn it on at the beginning of breakfast so you can verify your radio is properly set up and hear what it sounds like and even test your antenna close in and at a distance.… Read the rest

AARC is holding a VE (Volunteer Examiner) session where people can sit to take their amateur radio license exams in the vicinity of Charlottesville, VA. Walk-ins allowed. There is a modest fee to take the exam. These sessions are held about once every 3 months.… Read the rest

Photo Credit: NOAA Photo Library
Bill Pond N0WP writes on Saturday 2013-08-31:

It appears the Marshall Manor repeater site may have experienced some storm related damage today. Mike McPherson notified me around 5:15 PM today that he heard some beeps, then nothing on the 146.760.

If you have been paying attention to the new club calendar you know that it is labor day weekend and that in addition to our every other week breakfast bunch gathering (separate story) it is also time for the Shelby, NC hamfest and that traffic in town will be a mess due to a UVA home game.… Read the rest

Hot Air Balloon over Panera
During AARC Breakfast Gathering
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Photo Credit: Mark Whitis AK4OL
License: CC-BY-3.0US

Looks like we are back at Panera this saturday. Mike KQ9P writes:

This Saturday is our regular Ham Radio Breakfast Group! Let’s make it Panera in the Barracks Road Shopping Center this time.

Your computer and sound card can be used in lieu of some pieces of test equipment, particularly audio equipment. A couple times in as many weeks, I have needed to generate tones to send over the radio.

Most of the tools described here run on Linux; most are also available on Mac OS X, Windows, FreeBSD, etc.… Read the rest