2025 LARCfest Longmont Amateur Radio Club Hamfest

LARCfest 2025 is around the corner!

If interested in being a vendor click on this Link.. On the map any table marked in Orange is already reserved.

Current Events:

Laurel VE (Patriot VE) Testing from 8-10AM in the Clover building located south of the Exhibit hall.

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“Ask a LIVE YouTube Elmer” in the meeting room from 10AM-12PM.

Elmer’s Include:

Kerrye Brown (K5KAB) – https://www.youtube.com/@K5KAB

Dave Casler (KE0OG) – https://www.youtube.com/@davecasler

THOMAS M “Tom” APALENEK (WA2IVD) – https://www.youtube.com/@HamRadioA2Z

TheSmokinApe (KT0ADS) – www.youtube.com/@TheSmokinApe

Jim H “Big Jeem” Perry (WT1W) – www.youtube.com/@FEPLabsRadio

Steve E McGrane (KM9G) – www.youtube.com/@temporarilyoffline

Sean a Klechak (W9FFF) – https://www.youtube.com/@HAMRADIODUDE

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Get on the Air (GOTA) Station located in the Southeast Corner of the Building. Get on the air and have some fun!

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Club tables located on the North side of the building, next to entrance.

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Come join us:

Purchase entry tickets online

Taking Vendor table orders now! Click on link to get your table!

Thank you all who participated it was fun. This event was to build Antenna kits for sale at the LARCfest April 5th.

There are various scanner feeds for Los Angeles County available on Broadcastify at: https://www.broadcastify.com/lafire/

The first link (Consolidated Feed Dashboard) allows you to simultaneously listen to 6 feeds. You can pan them from left to right to make it a bit easier to differentiate them.

Note that these are actual firefighters, not ham communications.

• Only $25.00 per year
• Support of local repeaters
• Club only events
• Ability to create articles of interest on the website
• Access to other club members (via online)
• Access to club’s “Go-Boxes” (after taking online training)
  • HF / VHF / UHF Go-Box
  • DMR Go-Box (in process of creation)
  • Satellite Go-Box (in process of creation)
• First knowledge of events that need club support
• Ability to join the executive board to support our club
• Click her to sign up online

LARC Membership Signup sheet

The ARRL is preparing comments urging protection of existing and future amateur uses in the Amateur Radio 902-928 MHz Band. The FCC accepted for public comment a Petition for Rulemaking filed by NextNav Inc., a licensee in the 900-MHz Location and Monitoring Service (LMS), to completely reconfigure the 902-928 MHz band and replace the LMS with high-powered 5G cellular and related location services.

All amateurs are urged to file their own comments describing their activities in this band and the expected effect of the proposed changes:

More info: https://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-urges-protecting-the-amateur-radio-902-928-mhz-band