Jerry’s Page (N0OUW)

As a past president, and still an active member of LARC, one of the things I like to do is to help with keeping this website as current and relevant as possible. I also have a keen interest in history and I like to keep records concerning the history of the club. Towards that end, I continue to periodically review the website and try to ensure that any and all pertinent information about the club is stored on this website for future members to research.

Please feel free to comment on this page with ideas and suggestions for improvement for this site.

Enjoy………..  ’73  Jerry (NØOUW)  

One of my favorite things to do is to learn about the history of the club. When I reactivated my membership in LARC, after retiring from IBM in 2010, I very quickly became the club secretary. While performing that role as well as becoming active with the annual Hamfest fund raising activity, I started to research the clubs origins. I began by going through older Club secretary binders and Splatters to learn what I could about the early days of the club.

After some fits and starts, details of which I may share later, I produced a timeline of the club and began adding to it every time I was able to find some new information. Over time this has grown to the current document that can be found at the following link.

LARC History Timeline

Farm Life and Amateur Radio in the 1930’s (in Longmont)

Various interesting links that I have come across

A vintage Amateur Radio film clip – Featuring Arthur Godfrey, Barry Goldwater, Dick Van Dyke and others…..

The Three Stooges and Morse Code

Local Hackerspace – Eyes on Longmont

Recent MSNBC Clip – about Ham Radio and Emergency Services in Hawaii

Achievement in Radio – This 800 page book covers 70 years of Radio Science Technology and Standards and Measurement at the National Bureau of Standards. It is literally the history of Radio and the history of NIST and NOAA, right here in Boulder County.

Public Relations Tips from the Pros – Shared from the ARRL PR mailing list