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Ideas for Presentation Meetings
Seeking ideas for Presentation Meetings in Calendar year 2027. Mark, KD3BOH, is compiling ideas from membership for presentations to be offered at our monthly presentation meeting. Please send your ideas to W3VPR.Board or directly to Mark.board@w3vpr.org for inclusion in the 2027 schedule which will be posted in the weekly and on the club website…
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Elections 2026
The AARC Board of Directors met on Thursday, September 10. At that meeting the BOD approved the establishment of a Nominating Committee to prepare a slate of candidates to be considered for election at the December Membership Meeting. Board member at large Mark Rochlin KD3BOH will serve as the Nominating Committee liaison to the…
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America 250 Worked All States
The ARRL has a new event going on this year to celebrate 250 years of America.
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Forums now on Discord
Welcome to the New and Improved W3VPR website. A committee has been developing the site and is looking for your input on how it is going. What would you like to see? We used to have Forums, rarely used but we had them. The new website will be using an app called “Discord”, available…
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Field Day 2026
The dates for the 2026 Field Day are June 27 – 28, 2026. We are always looking for people who would like to participate or take lead positions. You could coordinate operations, logging, signups, food and many other positions that will need someone to help plan and coordinate. Or just let us know that…
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Net Etiquette Recommendation
The AARC Net Coordinator and Net Controller staff recognize that there are times when a topic cannot be sufficiently expounded upon in the two-minute time frame allotted. To do so might interrupt the logical flow of the thoughts being presented. However, please keep in mind that others on the net, especially commuters, mobile units…
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6-meter Presentation Available
Francis Donovan, W3LPL, gave an excellent presentation on 6-Meter Long Distance Propagation on Thursday, July 17th at the membership Presentation Meeting. For folks that were unable to attend or that would like a copy of Frank’s Power Point presentation, please email secretary@w3vpr.org. Due to the size of the Power Point deck (> 2 megabytes)…
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W3VPR Repeaters
The Anne Arundel Radio Club operates several repeaters. 2-meter repeaters The Crownsville repeater (147.075+ PL 107.2) is our main repeater and is located on the Anne Arundel County tower on Harkins Rd, near the Maryland Public Television tower. There are additional input sites (voter repeaters), all using the same frequency and PL tones, located…
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Equipment Sales
Eric and Ike will not be on site regularly for a few weeks. If you want to purchase something on the FOR SALE list please contact Eric and Ike at sales@w3vpr.org
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WE DID IT, IT’S MARYLAND LAW
Many thanks and much appreciation to Maryland Delegates Mr. Boteler and Mr. Buckel and their staff. Narrative – Local Government – Regulation of Amateur Radio Station Antenna Structures Requiring that an ordinance adopted by a county or municipality to regulate amateur radio station antenna structures may not preclude amateur radio communications, must accommodate amateur…