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.”

Chuck Poch

2022 LARCFest

Thank you all who volunteered and participated in the 2022 LARCFest. Without this could not of happened!

Chuck Poch – K0ITP

LARC Board President

Jerry’s Page #2

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

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

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General Meeting Minutes – January 2021

LARC General Meeting Minutes

January 2021

The LARC General Meeting for January 2021 was held on Wednesday, December 16 at 7 pm via Zoom. Chuck opened the meeting at 7:00 PM, welcoming everyone.  Mark Skelton (N7CTM) began with an overview of Rocky Mountain Ham and all the services they provide, including RMHam University.  Mark suggested we all go the the RMHam website and check out the classes they offer.

The evening presentation was conducted by Ed Fong (WB6IQN).  Ed discussed his J-Pole VHF/UHF antenna why it is unique and how it works.  It was a very interesting presentation and we all learned what a J-Pole antenna is and why it works so well. Ed’s company with the help of his students designs and builds antennas for the ham community and he is well known for his work. 

The meeting was adjourned at 9:00 PM.

Respectively submitted,

Pat Engstrom (W1PGE), Secretary

Board Meeting 10/2007

Call meeting to order: Jeremy, WG9T – 7:12pm MT

Officer and Committee Reports

  • Vice President: Bob WA2EKU, Meetings are scheduled up through March. Will contact Bob P. to finalize details of October presentation. Bob sold Max 45 2m brick for $50.
  • Secretary: Sebastian – NS0W – Discussion of previous minutes – approved.
  • Treasury: Jeremy welcomes Dan and will hand over in due course. Jeremy purchased a CD drive for $17. Laptop will be added to club inventory.
  • Membership Committee: No report.
  • Technical Committee: No report.
  • VE Testing: No report.
  • Website: Sebastian reported that backups is running from Jason’s site over to his site and he tested restoring it. Ed has to be thanked for his contribution.
  • Publicity: No report.
  • BCARES: No report.

Old business

  • Repeater has to be repaired. Jim will be asked to take rptr up to Ft. Collins to get it repaired – not more than $300.
  • Sebastian still owes club $50, Space weather presentation for Nov, the day before Thanksgiving to be reviewed.
  • 911 works as "911" – discussion re. the 911 call over the weekend. Jack is interested in helping with the repeater.
  • Coming 2nd Sat was scheduled for VE training – Jim cannot do it. Ray will ask Dean Rupert to stand in for Jim.
  • Echolink – club did not pay for it – Ed’s property and the club is fine with that.

New business

  • Budget. Shack in the box phase 4 (Antenna) will be the big ticket item.
  • Motion passed: There has to an audit to before handing off to the new treasurer. Past chair, present chair and VP to sign off.
  • Motion to reconcile club inventory and insurance – headed up by treasurer.
  • Discussion about new dues proposal. Proposal modified on new licensees – if free membership less than 6 months, next year membership is half price. Seniors in fiscal year. Free membership to board members scrapped. Proposal to be discussed at next board meeting.

Meeting adjourned: Jeremey WG9T … Time

Attendance:

1. Jeremy – WG9T

2. Ray – W9LQM

3. Jack – N0JPF

4. Dan – W3ETA

5. Bob – WA2EKU

6. Sebastian – NS0W