Feb. 2: Club Meeting – Radiation & You, with Ron, KC3ACL

Please join us on Friday, Feb. 2nd at 7:00pm for our monthly meeting at St. James Lutheran Church, 93 Kugler Rd. in Limerick, PA. The evening’s presentation is “Radiation and You,” given by Dr. Ron Bellamy, KC3ACL.  This talk will cover the basic principles of natural and manmade radiation, and the effects on the human body.  Regulatory limits and how they apply to nuclear power stations like Limerick will be explained. The basic operating principles of a nuclear reactor, how it generates power, and the radiation it produces, will be discussed. 

Dr. Bellamy is the President of the International Society for Nuclear Air Treatment Technologies, and has worked in this field for over five decades.

All are welcome. Refreshments served. 

Sept. 23: RRC Special Event – City of Reading’s 275th Birthday

Reading Radio Club W3BN Special Event for the City of Reading’s 275th Birthday: 

Sept. 23 on HF and VHF bands –

The W3BN Special Event Station launch date is Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023. The time of operations will be 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. EDT on SSB on 10, 15, 20, 40 and 80 meters. At least three HF radios will be transmitting through an array of beams high atop towers as well as through a series of long wires (depending on the band, of course).

For those in the region who don’t have HF capability, a team of VHF operators will set up a portable operation atop Mt. Penn along Skyline Drive overlooking Reading on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023 at 1 p.m. EDT until at least 2 p.m. EST on 146.550 MHz. (simplex).

Each station making contact with W3BN qualifies for a colorful, commemorative certificate to mark the occasion. All a licensed operator has to do to get their certificate is to send log information about the contact – call sign, date, time, and band as well as their name – to w3bn275@gmail.com to receive the certificate via email.

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May 20 – Fox Hunt

The next PAARC fox hunt will be Saturday May 20, at 9:30 AM. (Rain date May 27.)

The start will be at the Pottsgrove Middle School on 1351 N. Hanover
St., Pottstown 19464   N 40 deg., 16.27 min, W 75 deg. 38.15 min.

AG3T will be the fox.

April 18 – World Amateur Radio Day

From the ARRL
World Amateur Radio Day (WARD) is held on April 18 every year and is celebrated by radio amateurs and their national associations which are organized as member-societies of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU). It was on this day in 1925 that the IARU was formed in Paris. American Radio Relay League (ARRL) Co-Founder Hiram Percy Maxim was its first president.

The IARU announced that Human Security for All (HS4A) will be this year’s World Amateur Radio Day theme. The day is being celebrated with a 2-week operating event occurring April 11 – 25. Special event stations will be operating from around the world, making two-way radio contacts to call attention to the HS4A campaign. The United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security describes ‘human security’ as “a more powerful, lasting approach to the most difficult deficits in peace and development,” such as poverty, war, and natural disasters.

ARRL encourages all radio amateurs to take to the airwaves for WARD, to enjoy our global friendship with other amateurs, and to show our skills and capabilities to the public.

More information about 2023 World Amateur Radio Day is available at www.arrl.org/world-amateur-radio-day and www.iaru.org/on-the-air/world-amateur-radio-day

World Amateur Radio Day is April 18