Jan 5, 2020 | Special Event
Jan. 25-26 Winter Field Day – https://www.winterfieldday.com The purpose of Winter Field Day is to foster Ham camaraderie, field operation, emergency operating 
preparedness, and just plain on the air, outdoor fun in the midst of winter for American, Canadian and DX Amateurs. Don’t let those winter doldrums keep you locked up in the house…get out and play some radio. Winter Field Day runs for 24 hours during the last full weekend in January each year from 1900 UTC (2 pm EST) Saturday to 1900 UTC (2 pm EST) Sunday. For 2020, the dates are January 25th and 26th. Station set-up may commence no earlier than 1900 UTC (2 pm EST) on Friday before. The station setup may consume no more than 12 hours total. How & when you schedule/spend those 12 hours is up to you. Bands: All Amateur bands, HF, VHF, & UHF except 12, 17, 30 and 60 meters. Modes: Any mode that can faithfully transmit the exchange intact without conversion table… CW, SSB, AM, FM, DStar, C4FM, DMR, Packet, PSK, SSTV, RTTY, Olivia, Satellite, etc…(note FT8 2.0 cannot). The 3 categories of entry: Indoor, Outdoor, and Home.
Oct 27, 2019 | Education, Special Event, STEM
The Educational Alliance for Amateur Radio (EAAR) will be participating in Hawk Mountain Boy Scouts of America Council’s STEM University at Albright College on January 4, 2020. Weather permitting, they will offer a fox hunt ((transmitter hunt) and also on-air contacts to complete the Radio Merit Badge. Listen for them on D-STAR ref63b or the PAARC 2M repeater to coordinate contacts.
Oct 27, 2019 | Amateur Radio, Events, News, Repeater, Special Event
The Limerick Generating Station Emergency Preparedness Drill will occur this Tuesday November 19. As we have done in the past, PAARC has granted permission for Montgomery County ARES to use the 147.21 repeater and Berks County ARES to use the 224.02 repeater during this exercise. It is possible that some activity may also show up on the 443.55 repeater.
We are requesting that normal communications that would occur on our repeaters be minimized or curtailed during the drill. It is expected that the drill will be active between 4 PM and 8 PM.
Thanks for your cooperation.
Bob K3DBD, K3ZMC Trustee
– Learn About ARES Connect https://epa-arrl.org/ares-connect/
– Berks County ARES-RACES https://k3ti.n3vmt.com/ARES_RACES_2016.html
– Chester County CCAR http://www.w3eoc.org
– Montgomery County MCAR http://www.aa3e.org
Aug 25, 2019 | Events, News, Special Event
The 63rd PA QSO Party is October 12 & 13, 2019, always the 2nd full weekend in October. The 2019 Bonus Station operation is the Somerset County ARC, in honor of their 60th anniversary. The club will be operating under the callsign K3SMT from Somerset County. See https://paqso.org/index.html.
Jun 29, 2019 | Field Day, Special Event
Congratulations to the PAARC Field Day team who put together another great operating event again at Welkinweir! Our preliminary total score for 2019 is 4,038 points compared to the 2018 score of 4,738. We suffered through poor band conditions on Saturday and getting contacts was a challenge for even the most determined hams. While our score is lower this year it’s still pretty amazing! We were able to plan ahead a try for more bonus points which made a huge difference! View our 2019 Field Day summary. See the the Field Day page.
