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W3RRR Home Equipment For Sale HomeClub Roster Calendar Club Breakfast Presentations Nets Get Licensed! Documents Become A Member HCOL (Members Only) Let’s Have A Fox Hunt! May 6, 2024 Alex - W3AVP Posted in - Meeting Location July 31, 2022 January 9, 2024 Ralph - KC3KMT The meetings are every third Wednesday of each month, 7:00 pm at the Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology, 750 East King Street, Lancaster Pa 17602. Below is a map of the campus, the building (Learning Resource Center) that we meet in is circled. Come enjoy some camaraderie with fellow hams and there will be refreshments too! Posted in - Springtime Work Party at Welsh Mountain April 27, 2024 Dan - KB3ZMB Every spring is a time of cleanup outdoors. The downtime we had in winter is replaced with busy time in the spring. Every year Red Rose Repeater Association joins up with the crew at Welsh Mountain Community Park to clean up their park. There’s a building for public meetings, a picnic pavilion, basketball court, horseshoe pits, children’s playground and hiking trails. This year on 27-Apr club members provided much needed volunteer assistance in their cleanup; many hands make light work. Thanks goes out to: KC3EWJ (Allen Hewitt) KC3HQZ (Jean Hess) KC3VTP (Jim Krauss) KB3ZMB (Dan Boone) Mary Boone (associate member) Posted in - HamClubOnline Now Active! April 22, 2024 April 22, 2024 Chris Bunting The club is now utilizing a powerful state-of-the-art system called HamClubOnline or HCOL for short. This new system will allow us to better manage the club membership, events and assets. You may have already gotten an email welcoming you to the system. Simply visit https://www.hamclubonline.com , click forgot password” and enter your callsign to get started. Or if you are a member of an existing HCOL-enabled club, you can use your existing password to access ALL clubs you are a member of. We plan on announcing events such as weekly nets, breakfasts, field day, and more through this new system via email. If you have any issues with HCOL, please reach out to N3CH . Posted in - Pre Field Day Shakedown in the Park April 17, 2024 April 22, 2024 Dan - KB3ZMB On 21-Apr (Sunday), there was time set aside for club members to participate in a test of club radio equipment at a Shakedown Event. This was in preparation for Field Day. N8WXZ testing a club HF rig while contesting. LOCATION : French Creek State Park (near the boat launch) TIME : 1:00-5:00pm There were lots of activity on the air (four consecutive QSO parties, Rookie Roundup, etc.) plus activating this POTA park! Summer Field Day is on its way and we learned how to use the new hardware (plus the existing hardware), practiced making contacts, all in preparation for Field Day. Meanwhile, others were discussing techniques, preparing hardware and enjoying the time together. Ground Plane radiators attached to antenna base, thus improving antenna reach KC3LAV listening for CQ’s on the band. Posted in - Tagged field day , POTA , QSO Two Days In the Life of a Ham October 20, 2022 October 20, 2022 Dan - KB3ZMB 24..25-Sep-22 One September weekend I volunteered in support of the Multiple Sclerosis City-to-Shore Ride (AKA MS150), a fundraising event involving bicyclists riding from Cherry Hill, NJ to Ocean City, NJ. I didn’t do the riding, but I supported the event as a radio communications volunteer. I was assigned to a checkpoint about midway through the ride in the pine barrens of southern New Jersey. About the event – It is a bicycle ride that started on a Saturday morning in Cherry Hill, NJ. It ended late that afternoon in Ocean City, NJ. If one ‘does the math’, one finds that the course is ~77 miles in length. Each bicyclist is a volunteer, giving of their time and bicycling endurance to ‘go the distance’, to raise money to support research to find that cure for Multiple Sclerosis. The scope of the event is far and wide enough that mishaps can occur and no one would even witness them. Mid-morning grouping passing by Why do this? – What would drive a person to voluntarily place themself out there like that? For those just learning about Amateur Radio, one discovers that helping in public events like this is a reward unto itself. For those who’ve ‘been there and done that’, one can also testify as to the quiet yet essential roles played in providing a public service. The role of the Amateur Radio Operator placed on the course brings a level of safety to the event, especially since the area covered is far greater than that of a football field. My experience – The weather was perfect for the riders both days! September can be like that, sunny, but not crazy hot, and dry. While they were moving along, the bicyclists created their own cooling breeze. One could say that southern New Jersey is ideal for bicycle training, because it is quite flat. I’ve seen teams of riders in formation flying by, moving along near the pace of an automobile, shouting instructions to each other and covering some miles. Over the 77 mile length of the course, the elevation is quite mild, peaking out at 125′ above sea level, but for the most part settling around 45′ above sea level. Perfect for bicycling! My job was to keep an eye on the bicyclists, looking for any with mechanical problems, injuries, anything that could hamper one’s path to the end. In the spot I was placed I could see ‘up and down the line’ far enough to watch for trouble. One would expect these riders to be fit, to be fast and to be ready to race! However, it’s not really a race, but rather a ride. The ultimate goal here is to raise money for MS research. Both days were awesome! Steady stream of bicyclists passing by mid-afternoon If this interests you – There are resources you can look into to see if this would be something to consider a future event: https://mssociety.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.event&eventID=997 https://www.facebook.com/Ms150CityToShore/ http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Technology/tis/info/pdf/9303052.pdf Posted in - Mostly Current Club News July 31, 2022 January 8, 2024 Ben - KC3KBS UHF Repeater Our UHF Repeater (449.575MHz) is updated and now has Yaesu C4FM digital mode and WiresX functionality. We are DTMF Mode ID 11283 and DTMF Room ID 21283. Try us out! Posted in - , Updates/News Saturday August 3rd 2024 Club Picnic July 31, 2022 April 17, 2024 Ralph - KC3KMT The 2024 Red Rose club picnic is planned for Saturday August 3rd. The picnic will be held at the Susquehannock State Park (1880 Park Drive, Drumore Pa 17518). Since the park is part of the POTA program, we will be setting up an HF station to make it an activation. We plan on eating around 12:00. The club will provide hamburgers, hotdogs and drinks. Bring a side dish and the family. Bring along a friend who might have an interest in ham radio! Talk in will be on the club repeater (147.015 (+) 118.8). Posted in - , Events Winter Field Day 2023 February 5, 2022 March 15, 2023 Jason - W3PC Winter Field Day is an annual event occurring every January (last full weekend) and provides the amateur radio community with more radio fun. This year was no exception. Word got out and people came to see. Attendance was brisk and all who came benefited from the time spent. The entire range of license classes were there, which allowed for those contesting full rights of the Extra Class portions of the bands. The venue was at the Welsh Mountain Community Park Center and it served as a useful site for all the activities in play. Workshops There were hands-on workshops with various people involved: ARES Meeting (photo below) – Again, attendance was tremendous. Topics of discussion included a recap of the 2022 activities, discussion about the importance of the task books, plans for 2023 events and a discussion of training ideas for the future. Antenna Building Hands-On Topics – Part of the excitement of the hobby is in being able to create ones own equipment, including effective antennas from scratch: Tape Measure Yagi – This...