Hello DCARC Members and Amateur Radio Enthusiasts. Today is the first day of February and I’m excited for the month ahead. But first let’s look at what we have been working on. We have been creating a Club Annual Report. This report highlights the activities of our club during 2020. It is hoped
We would like to offer our heartfelt Thank You to Greg Lundell – K7UHP for your outstanding services the Club President from January 2017 – December 2020. You have done an outstanding job and we appreciate the countless hours of service that you have offered to the Ham Radio Community.
We are very happy to announce that our website has been updated to better support mobile devices. The previous error where the menu would not display has been corrected. Other formatting errors have also been corrected. We will continue to improve our site to better meet the needs of our community. Thank you for your
We would like to thank Joan Rapp (K6QJU) for facilitating our discussion on ARES/RACES. We all learned a lot. If you have any questions for Joan you can contact her via email at k6QJU (at) arrl.net You can also view the information we have on our website by clicking on Serving in the Community and
We are happy to announce the next installment of DCARC On-the-Air for this Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 7:30pm. Our Topic for this week will be ARES and Emergency Radio. Please tune in and be ready to participate. Our moderators for this event will be Gary (N7DND), Larry (KV7LC) and Joan (K6QJU). This is an
Today, January 17, 2021 the FCC Issued and Enforcement Advisory WARNING: AMATEUR AND PERSONAL RADIO SERVICES LICENSEES AND OPERATORS MAY NOT USE RADIO EQUIPMENT TO COMMIT OR FACILITATE CRIMINAL ACTS The full text of this advisory can be found at https://www.fcc.gov/document/amateur-personal-radio-users-reminded-not-use-radios-crimes For an interpretation you can check out the following link https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/17/tech/fcc-radio-extremist-social-media-attack/index.html Information on the Purpose
Our January 9, 2021 club meeting is now available in our archieve. You can view it here on our site, or by going to YouTube. The YouTube link is https://youtu.be/H3ofyLE1kqQ You can also find these videos and audio files on our website at https://www.dcarc.net/audio-and-video-files/
Our Club is only as strong as our member participation and we need YOU! If you are interested in helping out on one or more of our committees please submit the form below. You do not need to be an expert at any of these to participate. You just need to be willing to jump
Our next club meeting will be held on THIS SATURDAY, January 9, 2021 via the ZOOM system. Our topic will be HF Antenna Impedance and Feed Line Matching presented by Rick Mead (W7VQ). Rick will be going over basic concepts of what is required to make an antenna efficient including definitions of common mode current,
A special Thank You to Gary (N7DND) and Joe (N7JEH) for hosting our tech net tonight. We had a great conversation regarding Winter Field Day. If you would like more information about Winter Field Day please go to their website at www.winterfieldday.com Also on the net tonight was Max (NG7M). If you would like to
