May 13, 2016 | Events
The Philadelphia Digital Radio Association (K3PDR) proudly presents: Icom Amateur Radio in the Delaware Valley.
When: June 6, 2016 –– 7:00pm until 9:00pm
Where: College Hall Room: 144/148 Montgomery County Community College, 340 DeKalb Pike Blue Bell, Pa. 19422
Icom Special Guests: Hiro Nakaoka, JK3UZC (Icom America President) Nick Pennance, N1CKP (Icom America Vice President) Naomichi Sawada, NC5W (Icom Senior Engineer)
Prizes from Icom and COMMPATHS LLC • Light refreshments will be provided • Please ask our Icom guests questions about their products and future plans, as well as to say hello. A great evening for Amateur Radio, come out and show your support! Check for updates, www.k3pdr.org
*Montgomery County Community College is not affiliated with this event and the college should not be contacted regarding the program
May 9, 2016 | Events
W3W : Continental District Aviation Camporee Radio Merit Badge Day
Starting Friday, 5/13, at 4:00 pm through Sunday, 5/15, at 12:00 pm, look for calls W3W and K3ZMC. W3W is the primary station. W3W is being used for all Scouts to earn a radio merit badge at our local Limerick Twp. Heritage Field Airport. It is a three day event. W3W is the most important station to spot for contacts. Please be available to help these scouts earn their radio merit badge.
BSA Radio Merit Badge
K3ZMC will be a demo station for people to operate at this event. It is very helpful if our members spot us on the DX cluster.
I’ll be using WWW.DXWATCH.COM; you must sign in to spot us. It’s free to use and I use it exclusively – it’s a wonderful service. If you have logging programs many of them will add a spot if you enable them to do so. Either way it goes out to the same places. We have found that this works really well for our public demo of Amateur Radio Operations to keep non-local contacts going.
If you can, monitor the repeater 147.210 on Saturday. If we need to make a local contact, hopefully we can coordinate with you wherever we might be HF,VHF or UHF.
Walt – KB3SBC and Bill – KA3RMM will have a set of questions that the kids need to ask for every contact – please be patient with the kids. It often takes some coaching to get them through the contacts. Click here to download the script they’ll use.
Thanks for your support. – Ed – N3WXW
Apr 5, 2016 | Events, License Exams
PAARC will offer an Amateur Radio License testing session on Friday, May 6th at 5:00 pm, before our regular First Friday meeting at St. James Lutheran Church, 93 Kugler Rd., (intersection of Swamp Pike & Kugler Rd.) Limerick, PA 19468.
Go for your license or try for an upgrade. You can pre-register for the test by sending an email request to VETesting@PAARC.NET.
All test sessions administered by examiners accredited by The American Radio Relay League, Inc. See: What to Bring to an Exam Session
Apr 5, 2016 | Club Meeting, Events
Our May club meeting will be on Friday, May 6th at 7:00 pm at St. James Lutheran Church, Kugler Rd. and Swamp Pike in Limerick.
Members, friends, and prospective hams are invited to join us.
There will be a presentation on military “green” radios and their use in the amateur world. There will be demos and lots of interesting combinations of equipment you don’t normally see.
The team on Friday night will be Bill – KA3RMM, Walt – KB3SBC, Don – K3OP, Justin – KA3TIN, and Carl – NQ3U.
Updated on 5/2: there will not be a presentation on “Goonie Boxes” at this meeting.
Future meetings:
– June 3rd: Lou / WX3I will present on Skywarn at 7:00 pm
– July 1st: Hotdogs & Hams at 6:00 pm
Apr 5, 2016 | 6 Meters, Events
After a nice chat on the phone with our very own Dr. Bill/W3FRB I was told that both the Magician Net & the Mini Boat Anchor Net were listed on the EPA ARRL website. After enlisting the help of Melody/KB3SJR she graciously found the article posted below. The listing was submitted by Steve/K3ALV. Thanks to both Melody and Steve for sharing your time and talents!
Things are just starting to perk up here on the 6 meter band with some great openings into South America. Although it’s not for everyone, when the band opens up it can lead to some very fast paced contacts. With the Spring VHF contest coming up in June, and the band starting to show signs of activity it is our hope that everyone will give this often neglected band a try.
Speaking of activity, I got a text message on my cell phone Sunday from none other then Joel/KB3OZC. Joel always let’s me know when the bands open. By now I’m sure you’re noticing a bit of a pattern here? From the very article you see posted below to the message I received on my cell phone Sunday afternoon, it’s people that make it all happen. You may not see them, and you may not hear them directly, but they’re in there just the same.
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