Sign up below to operate (or just watch) the NC QSO Party Bonus Station W4DW on February 23rd
Today is Thursday, February 20, 2025 (day 51/2025)
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The Raleigh Amateur Radio Society asks that any person who thinks that they might have any
contagious disease refrain from attending any in-person RARS events until they are no longer contagious.
Members and non-members are welcome!
In-Person
Ridge Road Baptist Church 2011 Ridge Road Raleigh, NC 27607
6:00 PM: New Ham & Elmer Meeting
7:00 PM: General Social Period
7:30 PM: Business Meeting and Program
Online
Click here to join
the Zoom call anytime after 7:00 PM on the evening of the meeting.
Please add your call sign and location to your name in Zoom.
Zoom participants will be able to talk amongst themselves until 7:30 PM.
At 7:30, Zoom participants will be muted for the meeting but the Zoom chat feature will be monitored in the meeting room so they can make comments and ask questions.
We need VOLUNTEERS to help with set-up and tear-down for the in-person meeting.
See
here
for more information and to sign up!
Bring family, friends, kids, and anyone who might be curious about radios, antennas, batteries, and how to connect them together.
As always, no license or club affiliation is required, only a passing interest in radio, communications, or electrons.
Kids and family are welcome to join.
...
If you plan to bring an HF radio, please drop me a note and specify what bands you can operate.
I'll plan to bring band pass filters. Multiband radios are good for minimizing interference.
Check here for updates if the weather is questionable.
We hope to see you there!
Come join the Raleigh Amateur Radio Society for
NC QSO Party fun!
RARS will be operating W4DW as a bonus station, which means everyone will be trying to contact us!
Open to all—experienced operators, not so experienced operators, newly licensed, not licensed!
You don't even need to be a RARS member!
You can get on the air or just watch!
Please
sign up
so we can manage our limited space.
You will receive the location and other details once you sign up.
(We could use a few more CW operators!)
Radio, fellowship, a common goal, helping others...what could be more fun?!
RARS is a proud sponsor of the North Carolina QSO Party on February 23, 2025 from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm EST.
See details on the NC QSO Party page.
The 51st Annual RARSfest
Saturday, April 5, 2025
The Jim Graham Building, NC State Fairgrounds
General admission
tickets
to the
largest all-indoor hamfest on the East Coast
and flea market
tables
are available for purchase online during the “Early Bird” period from January 30 through March 29, 2025.
Prices will be higher at the door.
Great prizes and a special drawing for people who buy tickets during the “Early Bird” period.
Complimentary admission and a special prize for volunteers who
sign up here!
Part show-and-tell, part maker fair, part operating event, the in-person RARS Gathering on the fourth Tuesday of each month is the place to be if you want to find out about the local ham community, meet other ham radio operators, see hands on demos of old and new ham radio equipment, get on the air, and exchange ideas in a fun forum.
Members and non-members are welcome....
The meeting starts at 7:00 pm in the Fellowship Hall, but we start setting up at 6:00 pm, and
you are welcome to bring your own ham radio equipment and projects to demonstrate, show off, or
just work on with other like-minded hams -- we have plenty of tables.
You might also find sources of coax, connectors, zip cord, Powerpoles®, and whatnot.
For more information about The Gathering, please contact Tadd TorborgKA2DEW.
The RARS Volunteer Examiner Team conducts license exams at The Gatherings in even-numbered months, except when The Gathering is canceled, e.g., due to the weather or a conflict with a holiday.
You do not need to be a RARS member to test with us.
Exams start promptly at 6:00 PM so applicants can attend The Gathering, afterwards.
Pre-registration is strongly encouraged and may be done on
this page.
Make sure you are selecting the 6:00 PM–7:30 PM session on
the date of The Gathering.
Please see our License Classes and Exams page
for important information, including the exam requirements.
For more information about RARS license exams, please
contact
Richard HallKR4LH, the RARS VE Chair.
Next RARS Dinner
Tuesday,
March 18, 2025,
6:30 pm
IHOP, 7471 Six Forks Road, Raleigh
All members and guests are welcome to attend the monthly RARS Dinner,
now on the on the THIRD Tuesday of each month.
Informal and Dutch, just bring your appetite and best rag to chew.
IHOP is on the corner of Sawmill and Six Forks Roads.
After entering the restaurant, look for our folks in the dining room.
For more information about the RARS Dinner, please contact Chuck Littlewood K4HF.
Thanks to three years of Field Day logs, the 2024 NC QSO Party, and a final push by Tom N4TL, the Raleigh Amateur Radio Society has earned the ARRL “Worked All States” award in the “Mixed” category!
A new page describing the New Ham & Elmer Meeting has been added and linked from the General Membership Meeting announcement.
RARS-L has been decommissioned due to excessive and unresolved email bouncing.
The link to join RARS-L has been removed from the For Members Only page.
Please use the RARS Discord server for online conversations related to amateur radio, instead.
Links where we tell you to contact someone now open a RARS Communication Form addressed to that person, rather than directing you to the Club Contacts page.
Call signs in the membership roster and elsewhere on the website (including the Classifieds as of February 5, 2025) link to the member's QRZ.com profile.
The Zoom link for the General Membership Meeting has been added to the meeting announcement at the top of this page.
For those interested in RARS's history,
here
is a list of RARS officers and EXciter editors going back to RARS's founding in 1969,
and
here is a list of RARS founding, charter, life, and honorary members,
both of which are also linked from the
About RARS page.
The link to sign up for the RARS-L email reflector has been moved from the
About
page to the
For Members Only
page.
Meeting presentations have moved to here and are linked
from the RARS General Membership Meeting announcement at the top of this page
FCC Topics of Interest has moved to the News & Exciter page.
Why You Should Be A RARS Member Today! has moved here
and is linked from the Join/Renew Membership page.
Looking for RARS Club polo shirts or brochures to promote the Club?
Go to the bottom of the For Members Only page.
The menu on the left side of each page has been reorganized into logical chunks with lines separating the chunks.
The Home button is suppressed if you are on the home page.
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