Longmont Amateur Radio Club-LARC

Serving the Longmont Colorado Community!

“The mission of the Longmont Amateur Radio Club is to promote, support, and lead amateur radio activities in a manner that honors and exemplifies the radio amateur’s code, builds camaraderie within our membership, and serves our community’s needs.”

Our club meets on the 3rd Wednesday of each month, at 6:30 PM in the Clover Building at the Boulder County Fairgrounds at 9595 Nelson Road in Longmont and via zoom.

We open the meeting at 6:30 PM for social time before the meeting begins at 7:00 PM.  After a short business meeting, including introductions, updates from board members and committee chairmen, and then a presentation, we typically include some additional Show and Tell and more socializing time at 8:00. The public is welcome at our club meetings.

We currently operate and maintain two repeaters: A VHF repeater on 147.270 MHz (+) offset and a 100 Hz tone and a UHF repeater on 448.800 MHz with a (-) offset and an 88.5 Hz tone. These are located on top of the Longmont Justice Center. They have excellent coverage into the Western Boulder County Canyons.

 The Leadership Team:

(Voting Members) (Oct 2023 – Nov 2024):

PresidentChuck Poch K0ITP
Vice PresidentMichael Ritchie W0KKI
SecretaryPat Engstrom W1PGE
TreasurerDon Lewis KE0EE
Club HistorianOpen Position 
Previous PresidentOpen Position
Technical CoordinatorMark Skelton N7TCM
Membership CoordinatorSteve Shearer K0STE
Planning CoordinatorOpen Position 
Publicity CoordinatorSteve Haverstick KF0AGY
Education Coordinator Kat Gonderinger W0UM

Club Committees:

(Non Voting Members)

Silent KeyDon LewisKE0EE
POTAChuck Poch
K0ITP
Technology Mark Skelton N7CTM
EducationKat GonderingerW0UM
MembershipSteve ShearerK0STE
Fox hunting / Special EventsEd MohrmanWA7EM
Publicity Steve HaverstickKF0AGY
VE Testing – ARRLAaron Rees AJ7R
VE Testing – Laurel Bryan GonderingerAF0W
 QSL ManagerJason OrnsteinKF0GSA
QRZ managerJames HellerKC0DGR
Website Coordinator(s) Chuck Poch / Michael RitchieK0ITP / W0KKI
 Splatter Editor Bob SmithN0ZFV
 Co-Education CoordinatorBryan GonderingerAF0W
Repeater TrusteeBryan Gonderinger AF0W

An Educational Ham Net (Hamlet Net) is held every Tuesday evening at 7:00 PM on the club’s VHF and UHF Repeater frequencies, as well as on Echolink.

A Social Club Net is held every Thursday evening at 8:00 PM on the club’s VHF and UHF Repeater frequncies as well as on Echolink.

The Mailing address for LARC is PO Box 86, Longmont Colorado 80502.

We are also on Facebook….. Check us out.

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