Longmont Amateur Radio Club

We still need two more volunteers to help with our community outreach event early this Saturday morning, Nov. 9th!  It's for the Longmont Turkey Trot -- which is a footrace, and we need you to use the repeater to report activities at your tactical station point.You'll need to bring your HTs (pre-programmed to the LARC 2m repeater (147.270).  Contact Doug Altman (KE0SI) if you can help.

Our October General Membership meeting is on Wednesday, October 16 (this week), at 6:30 pm.

As we are starting a new format for our meetings, from 6:30 to 7:00 pm will be a social part, where you can visit with other club members, get to meet the newly-elected officers, ask an Elmer, and visit with your friends.  The actual presentation will begin on the dot at 7:00 pm, and will last until 8:00 pm.  From 8 pm to 9 pm, there will be more socializing of members.

Our September General Meeting is on Wednesday, Sept. 18, at 7:00 pm.It is held at the Clover Building of the Boulder County Fairgrounds at 9595 Neson Road, Longmont, 80501.  At this meeting, we will hold quick election for officers for 2020, and then we will hear about the new microwave updgrades/enhancements that have been completed on our repeater.Please join us whether you are a member or not -- we'd love to have you!

To see the September Splatter newsletter, go to the Splatter Newsletters link on the lower left or click here.

Our first Amateur Extra Class preparation & training course is slated to start on Monday, August 12th at the Niwot Fire Station at 6:00 pm. 

This class runs on Monday & Thursday nights from 6-9 pm and also on Saturdays from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm.  (There are no classes on the Saturday & Monday of Labor Day weekend.)  The class ends on Saturday morning, September 28th, with the exam being held at 1:00 pm.

Did you already vote in this month's Field Day Poll that was in the July edition of the Splatter?  If not, be sure to vote here by 7/31:  https://vote.pollcode.com/53589293

I just filed my Reply Comments in RM-11829... they ARCS Initiative and Tyro License.

LARC will participate in the ARRL Field Day June 22 and 23rd.  Please sign up to help, and or drop by to observe or make contacts on the radio. 

Our annual Field Day Event is open to the public, and we encourage everyone to bring friends & relatives over to see what we're doing and to join us!

Antenna setup begins at 9:30 am, and we get on the air at 12:00 noon, running for 24 hours in shifts through 12:00 noon on Sunday.

We usually have a digital station, a CW station, and of course several SSB stations.  Check out the Field Day link at the top of this page. 

Our next VE Exam Session is being held on Saturday, June 22nd, at 10:00 am at the Niwot Fire Station.  Please see our Licensing/Testing link on the left for everything you need to do & bring for this test session.  This is the last exam session being given prior to the General Book & Question Pool expiring on June 30, 2019.  The next regularly-scheduled exam session after this one will be on August 24th, 2019.

First LARC Exercise - Scheduled for May 18