Oct. 15: Digital Net is Canceled
Sunday’s, Oct. 15th Digital Net is canceled, but will return next Sunday, Oct. 22 at 8:00:pm.
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.
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
UNESCO World Radio Day – Feb. 13
World Radio Day is February 13, 2023
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, known as UNESCO, declared World Radio Day to be a celebration of the contributions this communications medium can make towards peace. The theme for this years’ World Radio Day is “Radio and Peace”.
Operators plan to to be on the air this year with special event callsigns between Feb. 10 through 13.