Jan 8th is the next CCARC meeting. The meeting officially starts at 7:30 pm at the LaPlata Rescue Squad building at 2 Calvert St., LaPlata. The back door should be open a bit before for general socializing.
The main topic will be planning the annual activities for the club.
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The Charles County Amateur Radio Club will be operating a special events station from the Dr. Mudd house in Waldorf MD. Operation will be on April 18th and 18th on the 17M phone band. Primary frequency will be 18.140MHz.
Charles County has a rich history pertaining to the Civil War, and several local connections with the escape of John Wilkes Booth. The addition of a special events station will allow operators from around the world to join in on the commemoration!
QSL requests can be sent to:
K3SMD Lincoln 150
P.O. Box 169
La Plata, MD 20646
Due to the April monthly meeting falling on Good Friday, the meeting has been rescheduled for April 10th. Please update your calendars and we will see you next Friday!
During the meeting we will plan our the events and signups for the Lincoln 150 Special events station
The Charles County Amateur Radio Club will be hosting its next monthly meeting on Friday, February 6th at 7:00.
Tim Morgan, chief of tourism & special events for Charles County will be stopping by to discuss with us the planned events for the 150th Commemoration of the Lincoln Assassination. Charles County has a rich history pertaining to the Civil War, and several local connections with the escape of John Wilkes Booth.
Stop by our meeting on at the Charles County Rescue Squad located at 2 Calvert Street in downtown La Plata this Friday at 7:00!
Hi everyone!
Sorry it has been a long time since we have updated our information.
Hope everyone had a good New Year, and got lots of goodies! We will be postponing our January, 2015 meeting until Friday January 9th. Due to the proximity to New Years, the club decided to move the meeting back one week to allow more members to return home from vacation and have a chance to come by!
We will be discussing the year past, and looking forward to the year ahead!
Feel free to bring by and projects or presents the large Man-in-Red has left for you for a show and tell!
Meeting will be January 9th at 7:00, located at the Charles County Rescue squad, 2 Calvert street, La Plata MD.
Friday, September 5th the Charles County Amateur Radio Club will be having its monthly meeting, starting at 7:00. The meeting will be at the Charles County Rescue Squad building, located at 2 Calvert Street in beautiful downtown La Plata.
An overview of this years Field-Day Event from a RF view will be the main presentation by Mark, KC4AFU.
This talk will provide a look at this years Field Day site examining both the Near Field energy distribution and the far-field antenna patterns of the various antenna configurations used during the event.
Coupling between the various antennas will be explored as well as examining the Power Density (W/M2) calculated in and around the shelter area based on various transmitted power levels.
Explanation of both the ideal dipole and monopole characteristics will be presented and will be compare to the calculated patterns over a real ground (i.e.. Dirt…)
Note: No Maxwell’s equations were harmed during the making of this presentation….
This Friday, August 1st the Charles County Amateur Radio Club will be having its monthly meeting, starting at 7:00. The meeting will be at the Charles County Rescue Squad building, located at 2 Calvert Street in beautiful downtown La Plata.
Mesh networks and their applications will be the feature presentation given by Keith Elkin, KB3TCB. Come down to learn about a cool new venture in ham radio! See you there!
Posting a reminder that our next meeting is coming up this Friday, 11-July. Meeting will be held again at the Charles County rescue squad in beautiful downtown La Plata.
The website has been updated to include more hamfests and two re-activated repeaters in the area. See the calendar of events page and the repeater/net page for the updated information!
We had a great Field day this year, and we will have our logs submitted into ARRL soon!
See you in 2015!
As a reminder, our monthly meeting will be held on July 11 this month due to the fourth of July holiday!
