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

SKYWARN – Weather Spotter

For those amatuers interested in SKYWARN or CAST (Colorado all-Season Spotter Team) Weather Spotting

This url will take you to the current NOAA information and schedule of training for this year.

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LARC General Meeting – Jan 2012

LARC General Meeting – January 2012

Meeting was called to order by Jim Walker, N0XDA, at 07:00 pm MT, 18 Jan 2012Jim had everyone introduce themselves around the room. We welcomed several new hams to the meeting tonite.

Jim also had a plug for our Solder Sniffers activity on the 2nd and 4th Saturday’s of each month. Currently we are working on the club’s three RDF units to get them all operational.

John Stransky (KF0RQ) gave us a great presentation on what it feels like to be ‘Rare’ DX over several vacation trips to Cambodia to visit his daughter and family who are missionaries in that country. While there he is typically only one of about 3 stations in country which affords him a lot of fun chatting with folks around the world who want to log that country. According to the spreadsheet he passed out that described his activity over a number of years, he really confirmed everything we read about in the news. Higher antennas are better. More power is better. Higher sunspot numbers are better. When conditions are right nothing else matters. Stepper IR’s are better, but folks who can afford them likely have the top of the line equipment in all the other categories as well.

Ray Warren brought in several items as door prizes which made the drawing process pretty easy tonite.

Attendees:   (20)

Jim (N0XDA), Jerry (N0OUW), Paul (AC0QE), Nancy (AC0DC), , Duane (WD0EEM), Brad Brookes (N0UEC),   Sebastian Wessels (NS0W), Bobby Foster (WA4ZSQ), Wayne (N0LEA), Ray (N1IUU), Joe Callahan (KC0JCC), John Stransky (KF0RQ), Tom Berlinger (K2FSU), Mark (KDOGOC) , Carlyn Stransky (N0NWT), Doug Altman KE0SI, Ray Warren (W9LQM), Tracy Davis (N3FT), Jack Ciaccia (WMOG), Low Warshawsky (K0ANS).

       Please contact Jerry, [email protected]  with any corrections or additions to these minutes……….’73

 

Community Service

Typical Community Service Activities

  • Boulder County Fair Parade
  • Halloween Parade
  • Longmont Triathalon
  • Holiday Lights Parade
  • Annual Longmont Turkey Trot
  • Annual Tour De Cure – Bicycle Race (racing for the Cure to Diabetes)  (moved to Parker in 2016)
  • City of Longmont Siren testing (1st Monday of each month from April thru August) (This activity ceased in 2017)

 

Checkout the Net Dialogue guide below for examples of how to participate in a controlled Net.

 

Repeater Information

Repeater Information

Bill

You will find two pages on the website with this same name. This one I envision to be a repository for any technical information about the repeater to be shared  with club members only. The other page is located under Club Activities in the main navigation panel. That page, as it currently exists seems to be pretty general information for public consumption, but feel free to take ownership of both of these pages and update them as you see fit. Please let me know when you hit any roadblocks and need additional permissions or have any other questions. I have been taking a lot of notes and am starting to feel a lot more comfortable in Drupal.  I know I’m only scratching the surface of what’s possible but I am slowly unraveling some of the secrets.

Jerry