Jun 22, 2021 | Amateur Radio, ARRL, Club event, Club Station, Field Day
PAARC welcomes members to our private Field Day event at Welkinweir beginning at 2:00 pm Saturday, June 26, and ending at noon on Sunday, June 27. Sorry, but this event is not open to the public.
Members will need to sign Welkinweir’s COVID-19 waiver at the sign-in table in order to visit or operate. Our event call is W3U, and the GOTA station will be K3ZMC. There will be a refreshments table in the pavilion.
We expect our classification to be 3A. The following operators will have stations set up for the duration: K3TWL, WA3LAB (CW), and KE3KQ. We anticipate a visit from K0BAK with a VHF 6 station.
The GOTA (Get On The Air) station is available for new hams and those who may not have operated in awhile. Coaching is available from K3AFV.
Visit our Field day webpage
Mar 31, 2021 | Amateur Radio, ARES, ARRL, EPA Section
Thanks go out to Cliff for serving the greater community in such an important way!!! Cliff is a member of PAARC.
3/31/21 – The Eastern Pennsylvania Section of the ARRL (the national association for Amateur Radio) proudly announces that Cliff Hotchkiss, KC3PGT, is the new Philadelphia County Emergency Coordinator. In that role, Cliff is responsible for the county Amateur Radio Emergency Service.
Cliff succeeds WA2UAR, our Eastern PA Public Information Coordinator, who served as acting emergency coordinator following the untimely passing of Harvey Kolodner, WA3GTL/SK – the County EC for the last several years.
In just a few months, Cliff completed all required Level 3 ARES training courses including FEMA Incident Management courses and ARRL Emergency Communications courses. The Philadelphia region District Emergency Coordinator (Richard Stewart – K3ITH) and the Eastern Pennsylvania ARRL Section Manager (George Miller – W3GWM) heartily endorsed Hotchkiss for the post following Silber’s recommendation.
Cliff Hotchkiss is a fine art photographer and former photography professor, specializing in historic and antique photographic techniques. He is active, not only in ARES, but serves as a Red Cross Amateur Radio Operator volunteer, net control for the Marple-Newtown morning weather and information net, the Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club’s afternoon drive time net, and is a member of a number of regional clubs.
Join us all in congratulating Cliff Hotchkiss on his appointment as ARRL’s Philadelphia County Emergency Coordinator. And join Cliff as he leads the ARES Net meetings normally on the Phil-Mont repeater system, 147.03, +offset, PL 91.5 – 9 PM local time, Sunday evenings. (Also available on Echolink – W3QV-R, and Allstar 47940).
Visit the ARRL EPA website: https:www.epa-arrl.org
Mar 31, 2021 | Amateur Radio, Contesting
Happy Spring!
Select the blue link to visit the page for the corresponding State QSO Party:
Jan 16, 2021 | Amateur Radio, Club Meeting, Events
Join us on Friday, Feb. 5th on Zoom for a presentation by Barry Feierman, K3EUI on the Nano VNA, an affordable, handheld network analyzer that Barry likens to an antenna stethoscope. Write to secretary at PAARC dot net for meeting credentials.
Aug 10, 2020 | Amateur Radio, Digital, EPA, Nets
From the ARRL EPA Section website: We’ve been having a lot of activity on the EPA Section DMR Brandmeister Talkgroup. If you have a Hotspot our Talkgroup is 31426. I try to monitor whenever I can. We’re going to try holding a net. Most people seem free on Thursday evenings, so we’ll meet at 7:30 PM. The purpose of the net is to discuss all things DMR. We’ll try to answer questions and provide information about DMR and even other Talkgroups you might find interesting. Everyone is welcome. If you have a radiogram you’d like to send, we’ll accept messages to be sent via the National Traffic System. This will be a low-key net stressing good fellowship between Hams active on DMR in Eastern Pennsylvania. Anyone from anywhere is welcome to join us. Possibly, once we’re established, we could have check-ins from virtually anywhere in the world!
Join us on Thursday evenings at 7:30 PM.
73,
George Miller, W3GWM
EPA Section Manager
