There are still six seats available in the beginning Ham Radio Technician License Preparation Class which begins Tuesday, May 30th!  Register for this class NOW, so you have your license for your summer fun!

This class starts on Tuesday, 5/30, at 6:00 p.m. at the Niwot Fire Station at 8500 Niwot Road, Longmont, 80503.  
You can register at the Education link on the left under the Technician Class, or just show up at 6:00 pm Tuesday evening.   
The class tuition is $10, and the ARRL Amateur Radio License Manual (spiral-bound) is $25 with the instructor-discounted price.  For more information about this class, refer to the Technician Class link on the Education page.

Tell all your friends to get their ham radio operator licenses now!

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.

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 

 

 

DMR-How-To

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.

 

LARCFest 2017 Door Prize Details

 

For the past couple years we have tried to generate some interest in the LARCFest by selecting one or two

really nice radios for our top prizes. This year we plan to offer HRO gift certificates for our top four prizes so

they can choose the Radio or other Amateur Radio gear they might want.

SO

The top door prize this year will be a $750 gift Certificate for the winner to use to shop at our HRO sponsor

in addtition

There will be three more HRO Gift Certificates along with many other door prizes drawn during the FEST

 

 

 

 

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Presentation by James Cizek at the LARC February 2017 General Meeting

We are pleased to announce the release of the LARC Mentoring Program.  The program will assist members less familiar with radio operation to get on the air and build confidence in their radio abilities.  Mentors can also assist members on technical issues such as radio and equipment setup, and antenna configuration.  

LARC members interested in advancing their knowledge by learning new digital modes or moving from local VHF to HF and DX activities should take advantage of this learning opportunity.  Mentors will be matched based upon interests and knowledge level.

The mentoring program is available to all active members of LARC.  Anyone interested in being mentored or in becoming a mentor should contact Ron Schwartz at vicepresident@w0eno.org