Amateur Radio Response To Jan. 12th Haiti Earthquake
ARRL Sends Ham Aid Equipment to Haiti - Many Amateur Radio manufacturers are donating equipment to ARRL
Ham Aid for shipment to Haiti and
YOU can be part of that effort. The RARS Board of Directors plans to make a contribution to Haiti Relief and encourages RARS members to add their
tax deductible donations to the fund using the
RARS Haiti Donations Form on our website.
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The Last Tar Heel Scanner/SWL Net this Monday at 9:00 PM on 146.64
January 23, from Kelly, AE4FG:
The Monday night Scanner/SWL net will be discontinued until further notice. So, this Monday night's net is going to be the last one.
Curt Phillips, W4CP, started this net in 1994 and will be calling this final net, so be sure to check in.
Amateur Radio License Classes
RARS will conduct training for the Technician Class Amateur Radio License this spring. The first of half of the training will take place on March 13th. with the remainder of the training and the license exams conducted on March 27th.
Read more here.
38th. annual RARSfest April 3, 2010
Planning is now underway for the 2010 RARSfest. Club members are asked to go view the
RARSfest pages, then
Volunteer your help for the event. If you would like to be involved with the planning for RARSfest please send email to
AI4RT - John Snellen.
STATION GROUNDING
The August RARS meeting featured an excellent Station Grounding presentation by Clyde Carl, WB2EYC and Alan Pitegoff, AB4OZ. Get their
Power Point presentation including references here. You may need this
Power Point Viewer from Microsoft.
RARS FIELD DAY 2009
Mike, WA4BPJ has posted results and historical statistics.
Updated: November 15, 2009
K4ITL named Ham of the Year at Dayton Hamvention
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The Dayton Amateur Radio Association selected Danny Hampton, K4ITL, of Raleigh, as the "2009 Amateur of the Year". Read the details here.
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Thanks for another great RARSfest
"If anyone knows the people responsible for the children's activities today, please pass along a great "Well done!" for me. They seemed to be having a great time with the activities, and we just might get some hams out of them in a few years!"
Norman Young
SDR / SoftRock / CW Skimmer
The program at the January RARS meeting was an interesting presentation on very inexpensive Software Defined Radio kits. Glen and John have provided a new PDF and some additional information. You may want to take a look at the
SDR Information and give it a try yourself.
Video report on the ARISS Operating Event at Enloe School
This YouTube
Video report on the November 14th, 2008 event courtesy of Amateur Radio Video News. Thanks to our PIO - Gary Pearce, KN4AQ, for making this available.
