Upcoming Club Events: Fox Hunt (transmitter hunt) Saturday August 14th 8:30am location TBA. BYO coffee, then hunt about 9:30am. More info here… An altered monthly club meeting will be held Monday, August 23rd @7pm on our local repeaters and via Zoom. Zoom login information will be sent out via our email reflector. This is due […]
Activities
Newsroom
Press Releases June 2021 – Field Day Activities at Randolph Park June 2019 – Public Demo of Emergency Communications
ARRL Virginia Section Ham Radio News
Here is a collection of ARRL Section News from Virginia in PDF format for our club members to view. July 2021 – VASectionNews-27.pdf June 2021 – VASectionNews-26.pdf May 2021 – VASectionNews-25.pdf April 2021 – VASectionNews-24.pdf March 2021 – VASectionNews-23.pdf Februrary 2021 – VASectionNews-22.pdf (invalid reference link to Williamsburg Next Door Neighbors magazine in #22 above. […]
Getting Ready for Special Event
I bought this 10’x10′ Cover Pro Shed at Harbor Freight to use at Audie Murphy Special Event. The canopy went together fairly easy. It took Mike and me about an hour but could be done quicker now that we have experience. It seems sturdy enough.I like having the four walls in case of bad weather. […]
Audie Murphy – Special Event Station
May 29, 1300Z-2200Z, W2A, Christiansburg, VA. Event station will be ran by the New River Valley Amateur Radio Club. Audie Murphy (1925 – 1971)was the most decorated US soldier in World War II. He died in a plane crash on Brush Mountain, near New Castle, VA on May 28, 1971. This special event marks the 50th year […]
VE Testing Sessions
Requirements for Testing All testing sessions require an FCC Registration Number (FRN) prior to testing and a photo ID. This is an FCC regulation. Go to the FCC Registration site to register for free here.If you need help, video instructions are available here. If you are already licensed, you will also need to bring a […]
Just Flexin’
Blings ‘n’ Things for March 2021 Here are some pictures of submitted pictures and descriptions from club members wanting to share. All in alphabetic order according to call sign. From AI4RC 01 – On the left is an Yaesu FT 450, MFJ 4225 power supply, MFJ IntelliTuner , Tigertronics Signal Link, Bencher By -1 iambic […]
Blings ‘n’ Things Themes for 2021
This year our monthly meetings will contain a show ‘n’ tell where members are encouraged to bring in things to show off, explain, and discuss. This “Blings ‘n’ Things” will be themed for each month for a specific topic, but members are encouraged to bring in anything they would like to show or share. Below […]
NRVARC Donates to ARRL Spectrum Defense Fund
As COVID-19 precautions would prevent our club from holding our annual Eat-and-Meet in January, it was decided in our November 2020 club meeting to take the normally allocated funds for our raffle to go towards the ARRL Spectrum Defense Fund. The $200 dollars donation was received by the ARRL in February 2021. The ARRL Spectrum […]
The Evil Foxhunt 2020
(This is also available in the ARRL Virginia Section Newsletter for December of 2020)Amid all the protections and social distancing of 2020, I have struggled to think of things that we can do for social gatherings and fun, but still maintain a level of safety for the New River Valley Amateur Radio Club. Activities outdoors […]