Longmont Amateur Radio Club

LARC Tuesday Night Hamlet (Newbie) Net

The Tuesday Night Hamlet Net is an informal net for newer ham radio operators on the club's VHF and UHF repeaters.

This net is held every Tuesday evening at 7:00 pm Mountain Time on the LARC repeaters.

VHF: 147.270 MHz (+) 100 Hz CTCSS tone (req'd and xmitted)UHF: 448.800 MHz (-) 88.5 Hz CTCSS tone (req'd and xmitted)(repeaters are always linked together)

(except for the rare holiday - and maybe even then)

The purpose of the net is to provide a weekly event for new ham radio operators, so they can learn how to use a net, ask questions and get answers, and make new friends who are in the same situation -- learning more about our hobby, learning how to use our radios, and getting more experience on the air in a friendly, non-intimidating environment.

This net begins with check-ins, a question or topic presented by the NCS (Net Control Station) for everyone to answer, and then a conversational Q & A session for all.

All questions are welcomed -- there is no such thing as a "dumb" question!  Every question of any kind (related to ham radio or about our club) is welcome!

Early check-ins begin at 6:55 pm, with the net beginning at 7:00 pm.

The current Net Manager is Charles Poch (K0ITP).

The LARC General Meeting wil be held via Zoom with our social time starting at 6:30 pm on 16th September 2020.  All are welcome.

Members, please try to attend, as this is also our annual election for Board Members, which will be held when the meeting begins at 7:00 pm. If you would like to run for an Executive position please let a member of the board know or send email to board@w0eno.org.  We will be voting prior to the meeting presentation.  See Zoom information below. 

Current Nominees are:

Board President - Chuck Poch (K0ITP)

Vice President - Michael Ritchie (W0KKI)

Treasurer - Don Lewis (KE0EE)

Secretary - Pat Engstrom (W1PGE)

This month's speaker will be Jeff Ryan (K0RM) to talk about ARRL. Invite friends and family to attend. 

LARC is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: September 2020 LARC General Meeting -- Annual Elections and Jeff Ryan (K0RM), ARRL Presentation

Time: Sep 16, 2020 06:30 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting:  

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89207577547

Meeting ID: 892 0757 7547

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LARC Members - As a way to help your club grow, the board needs your help.

Please fill out the 2020 Annual Survey Click on the link and give us your thoughts as soon as possible!  It should only take about five minutes of your time.

Thank you & 73!

The LARC VE Team, in conjunction with the Patriot VE Team, is sponsoring VE Exam Session(s) on Sunday, September 13th, at 9:00 am, 10:30 am, and also at 12:00 NOON, at the Professional Building at 350 Terry Street, Longmont, 80501.

MASKS ARE REQUIRED.

These tests will be offered in-person online (NOT REMOTE). Please bring your tablet or laptop. Further instructions will be given upon registration.

If the 9am session fills up, another session may be added afterwards. Keep tabs on the link below at hamstudy.org/sessions.

In a recent LARC board meeting, the topic of ZOOM came up and how the club might use it. There were a number of suggestions mentioned and I am certain that we will all be hearing about some of them in the near future. There may be articles in the Splatter, or the Website, discussions on the nets, or even via E-Mails.

It is clear that Zoom is being used quite a bit for all sorts of meetings and classes etc. during this time of physical distancing. Jerry (N0OUW) has been using it in conjunction with his volunteering with the SCTC (Senior Computer Tech Center) and has volunteered to create a Zoom class (using Zoom) to introduce this relatively new tool to LARC members. The next question becomes 'How many members would like to attend this type of class to learn more about how to use it?  It may very well be that many folks have already learned about it and are comfortable using it.

We would like to hear your thoughts on the topic of having such a class.

Please click on the following link to take a quick survey to tell us what you think.

Zoom class interest survey   

Thanks......Jerry  (N0OUW)

The World-Wide Digi-DX Contest for FT8 & FT4 is starting at 6 am MDT (1200 UTC) Saturday, 8/29, and is running through 5:59 am MDT (1159 UTC) on Sunday morning.  The purpose of this contest is to get as many Maidenhead Grids as possible.  For more information & the rules for this contest, go to:  https://ww-digi.com/index.htm.

To get more info about FT8 & FT4 (and other digital modes), get user guides and installation information, and to download these packages to your computer, go to http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html.

The LARC VE Team, in conjunction with the Patriot VE Team, is sponsoring VE Exam Session(s) on Sunday, September 13th, at 9:00 am., at the Professional Building at 350 Terry Street, Longmont, 80501.

These tests will be offered in-person online (NOT REMOTE). Please bring your tablet or laptop. Further instructions will be given upon registration.

If the 9am session fills up, another session may be added afterwards. Keep tabs on the link below at hamstudy.org/sessions.

You MUST pre-register at https://hamstudy.org/sessions/5f3931308a5215fb24cbaf3d/1.

Masks are REQUIRED for this session. 

If you decide not to take your exam at this session/on this day, you must cancel your reservation as far in advance as possible so someone else can take your seat.

You are invited to join us on our club repeater(s) for our regularly-scheduled Hamlet Net, which is held every Tuesday evening at 7:00 pm. 

Our repeater information is the third item down on the Navigation panel to the left of this.  You can use either the 70cm or 2m repeater, whichever works best for you, as they are linked.Hope to hear you on the air tonight!

You are invited to join our regularly-scheduled LARC Net tonight, Thursday, at 8:00 pm.  You can use either the 70cm or 2m repeater, whichever one works best for you, as they are linked.  The repeater link is on the left side of this page, third item down.  Hope to hear you on the air!

Please join us for our monthly club membership meeting at 6:30 pm on Wednesday, August 19th.  This will be a virtual meeting on the Zoom platform, and is open to everyone, member or not.  The meeting actually starts at 7:00 pm, but getting on at 6:30 will allow for getting situated and saying hello to everyone.  

The guest speaker for this meeting is Amanda Alden, K1DDN, from Ham Nation.  

You can join the meeting at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82146277548, using meeting number 821 4627 7548.