Jan 2, 2019 | Events
The Reading Radio Club’s Fox committee will offer 2 indoor classes to help you hone your fox hunt (transmitter hunt) skills. If you have your own equipment, please bring it, but if not, they will have extra equipment available to teach hunting skills for the first 30 minutes or more, depending on questions. Then they will hide two micro foxes INSIDE the bldg.
The first class on January 27th will be a basic course teaching the antenna use, and how to read a radio to pinpoint the fox. The second class in February (date TBD) will be a more advanced class with two foxes also hidden. This will teach the antenna, 4MG offset, and other more advanced features of fox hunting.
If you listen to the RRC’s Friday net meetings, you know there have been a lot of times that transmitter hunting could be useful to find people, or transmitters that are causing problems.
First class:
27 January, 2019, 1300 hours (1pm) at the Ag center on County Welfare Road in Bern township. Thsi is the same building where RRC monthly meetings are held. Please consider attending. We will have at least 3 teachers there to answer questions and assist anyone in finding the indoor foxes.
For more info, contact Ron, Waszk K3RJW.
Dec 30, 2018 | Events
Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019 at 7pm at ROXBOROUGH MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, Wolcoff Auditorium, 5800 RIDGE AVE. (Ridge Ave & Jamestown St.) PHILADELPHIA PA 19128
Visit their website for details and item photos: http://www.phil-mont.org
Buyer’s Sheet: http://www.phil-mont.org/auction/Auction_Flyer_2019.pdf
Nov 8, 2018 | Events
For the past few Saturday lunches area hams have been meeting at noon at Our Place Restaurant & Bar on Swamp Pike in New Hanover Twp. Listen to the 2M repeater on 1st and 3rd Saturday mornings of teh month for updates or see K3BVQ or KA3RIX for details. All are welcome to join us.
Oct 22, 2018 | Events, License Exams
PAARC’s remaining 2018 Amateur Radio license test sessions are Fri., Nov. 2nd at 5:00 pm, and Fri., Dec. 14th at 5:00 pm at St. James Lutheran Church, Limerick PA.
Go for your Amateur Radio license or try for an upgrade. Pre-register by sending a request to
VETesting@PAARC.NET. Test sessions are administered by examiners accredited by the ARRL. See what to bring to exam session here:
www.arrl.org/what-to-bring-to-an-exam-session.
What to Bring to an Exam Session
– Two forms of ID, or 1 photo ID
– Test fee of $15.00
– If upgrading, your current license and a copy (we cannot make copies at the session), and any current valid CSCE’s (original and one copy)
– Two or more pencils
– Calculator, if desired
All test sessions administered by examiners accredited by the ARRL.
Apr 28, 2018 | Club event, Events, STEM
Exeter Township School District hosted their annual “Spring in to STEM” fair on April 26, 2018. The purpose of the event is to engage students in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Club members Jon Durand, N8EUL, and Shawn Pauley, W3SMP, attended and hosted an Amateur Radio table. Youth-oriented handouts were made available, and they demonstrated how to receive weather images from NOAA satellites with a home made antenna and an SDR. They also fielded questions from the 700+ in attendance and encouraged those that expressed interest in the hobby to attend the upcoming events and meetings of both PAARC and the Reading Radio Club. Learn more about the STEM Fair from the Reading Eagle (paywall): http://www.readingeagle.com/news/article/over-700-turn-out-for-spring-into-stem-fair-in-exeter-school-district
