Get your children, grandchildren, & neighborhood kids on the air right NOW with Santa from 6-7 pm TONIGHT and TOMORROW NIGHT (Fri & Sat) to talk to Santa & tell him what they want for Christmas!  (Or just to say hello to him!)

Active on our UHF/VHF repeaters now as well as on Echolink:

VHF:  147.270  +100

UHF:  448.800  -88.5

Echolnk:  W0ENO-R, Node/Station 8305

SANTA IS ON THE AIR all the way from the North Pole!! HO-HO-HO!! From 6-7 pm MDT time, tonight (12/3) and through Saturday, 12/5!   Get your kiddos, grandkiddos, neighborhood kids (masked, of course!) on the air with Santa to tell him what they want for Christmas! A licensed ham radio operator is required, & all contacts go through the LARC Repeaters on VHF at 147.270 MHz +100 or on UHF at 448.800 MHz -88.5.

Click Here to view the entire LARC Santa project article as published in the Times-Call.

LARC – Longmont Amateur Radio Club Press Release

Info@w0eno.org

Contact:

Chuck Poch – K0ITP – LARC Board President

K0ITP@W0ENO.ORG

MEDIA ADVISORY

2020 On the Air with Santa — December 1 – 5, 2020, 6PM-7PM Mountain Time

Ham radio operators from the Longmont Amateur Radio Club in Longmont, Colorado will be giving other HAMS the opportunity for youngsters to talk to Santa. This will be done via the club’s repeaters at

VHF: 147.270 MHz (+) 100 Hz CTCSS tone
UHF: 448.800 MHz (-) 88.5 Hz CTCSS or
EchoLink: WØENO-R (node 8305)

During the event young and experienced can get on the air and talk to Santa. To participate all you need is a Ham Radio and a licensed operator.

Each night at 6PM Santa will get on the air and call out for hams to get on the air with him.

With Covid-19 and social distancing the LARC wanted to try to bring us a little closer and talk to Santa , since we probably will not be seeing him in person this year at Malls and such.

LARC is a non-profit community organization that is always trying to give back, since 1969.

LARC participates in parades, emergency events and in supporting the community anyway they can with additional communications means.

You are invited to join us for our weekly Thursday night club Net tomorrow, Thursday, at 8:00 pm.  You can find our repeater info on the left.  
Hope to hear you on the air!

LARC Meeting Videos

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Using this page as a starting point for developing a method to provide access to LARC members to ZOOM virtual meetings via the website

Currently we have .MP4 files stored on a Google Docs shared Drive.  ( Chuck, Jerry, and others ?????   _______   ________ _______    have access to the drive.

Jerry is working to learn how to clean these file up a bit before publishing     Editing videos will be a new skill for Jerry   ( Working on it )

Chuck has advised that we can use You Tube as a platform for the videos …….. Will get more info on this from Chuck

Appears that the .mp4 file type is not currently allowed on the website directly .  I imagine the website would not support the capacity for videos anyway. Confirm with Larry

General Meeting Videos  (these are simple links to the original .MP4 files on the LARC Google Drive – Not yet cleaned up for publishing )

April           Members Sharing Ham Shack Details

May            FT-8  Don Lewis KE0EE

June           History of Amateur Radio – Jeff Ryan

July             Club Member Roundtable

August        Amanda  K1DDN

September    ARRL – Jeff Ryan   (Orig File 590 Mb)

The General Meeting will be held via Zoom starting at 6:30 PM.  See Zoom information below. Special guest speaker Bob Witte (K0NR) – “Having Fun With VHF”. Also check out his book  VHF, Summits and More: Having Fun With Ham Radio.

Please join us, and feel free to invite family and friends!

Topic: October 2020  General Meeting 

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!