Longmont Amateur Radio Club

The LARC VHF and UHF repeaters are now operational at their new Justice Center location.  The move took three days to dissassemble, erect new antennas, and re-assemble the repeaters at the new location.  At this time the same components are in use, but a number of items including the controllers will be upgraded over the next few months.  In addition, we hope that some final tuning should further improve performance.  Please give the repeaters a workout and report any problems.

A new Technician License Preparation Class begins on Tuesday, May 30, 2017.  This class runs on Mondays and Thursdays through June 22, with the test following on June 24th.  (It starts on a Tuesday for the first week because Monday is a holiday.)    To register, click on the Education link on the left.

Since I am unable to ker-chunk the repeater today, that tells me that the plan for removing the antennas from the Fire Station has occured as planned. 

The current plan is to now move the repeater(s) to the Justice Center and the target for completion is by End of Day tomorrow.

I will posat any further progess update here as I get them..,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Jerry 

LARC is having a VE Exam Session on Saturday, May 20th at 10:00 am at the Niwot Fire Station at 8500 Niwot Road, Niwot, CO  80503.  It is associated with the General License Preparation Course that is completing on Thursday, May 18th, but it is open for walk-ins from the general public.  To register for this session, please click here.

Upgrade your license from Technician to General by taking our General License Preparation Class. This class runs Monday, April 17th through Thursday, May 18th (on Mondays & Thursdays) from 6:00 – 9:00 p.m., with the exam to follow on May 20th.  It is a 30-hour course. The fee for this class is $20, and you can purchase the spiral-bound General Class manual for $25 from the instructors Kat (W0UM) & Bryan (AF0W) Gonderinger. These seats will fill up fast, so register now, and once paid, your seat in this class is guaranteed.

After quite a period of reasonable usage of the LARC VHF repeater, the intermod problem has returned with a vengeance in the past few days.

As a result we were unable to participate in a county wide BCARES propogation test this past Monday and also were unable to hold our weekly net tonite.

We did conduct the net tonite on the UHF repeater.  Steps are in progress to get the VHF machine back on the air as soon as possible. Until then, use it if it's working and if not, switch to the UHF machine on 448.800 with a + offset and an 88.5 Hz tone.

This month's presentation will be a discussion of the RMHAM Colorado microwave linked DMR system by Joey Stanford (NV0N).

This months meeting is on April 19, always the third Wednesday of the month, at 7:00PM in the Clover Building at the Boulder Country Fairgrounds in Longmont.  Come early to meet members and get a good seat.

This month's presentation will provide an overview of Digital Voice radio with an emphasis on the worldwide D-STAR system, particularly on using the system with a personal access point device (a.k.a., hotspot). We'll take a look at solutions that can be used in the shack and on the road.  This months meeting is on March 15, always the third Wednesday of the month, at 7:00PM in the Clover Building at the Boulder Country Fairgrounds in Longmont.  Come early to meet members and get a good seat.

Our next Technician License Preparation Class starts Monday, March 6th!  Click on the Education link on the left to register for this class.  Tell all your friends & relatives who aren't licensed yet that now is the time to jump into the hobby.  Register today and become a licensed ham operator!