Upcoming Events

COVID-19 is still plaguing the world so we'll be meeting via Zoom again.
https://zoom.us/j/4263755765?pwd=Vzdva1NaODZxUDByQmplcjN4WG5zUT09
Meeting ID: 426 375 5765
Passcode: 791957
​Friday Lunches (in person) are Back
​(Next: October 8 @ 12:30 PM ET)
Join us at the Mellow Mushroom in Brookhaven for our Friday lunch get togethers. The food is good and the company is better. Everyone is invited.
October Meeting (October 7 @ 7 PM ET)
The Atlanta Radio Club is pleased to announce that our October (7th) program will feature Mel Granick, KS2G, who will be presenting on HF operations. 
Do you have a Technician’s license and::
  • You're curious about operating HF or
  • You want to know more about HF before talking the General exam
If so, this meeting is for you. Mel will give us an overview of many of the facets of operating HF, including:
  • The pros and cons of each of the major HF bands
  • Antennas. Difference between HF antennas and 2m or 440 antennas.
  • Propagation. How does the HF signal travel so far? How does the weather in space affect the different bands? 
  • What do you say when you’re on the air? 
  • How to operate your HF radio. Which buttons and knobs do you use for transmitting? Receiving?
Are you a General or Extra?  Do you remember your first HF contact? I remember mine and it wasn’t pleasant. I thought I knew what to say. I didn’t. I thought I knew about a feature on my radio that’s common to just about every radio made in the past 20 years. I didn’t.
I could have used a presentation like this one before getting on the air. I’m actually looking forward to it now.
You can rest assured that there will be plenty of time at the end of the presentation to get any questions you have about these topics or any others answered.
Date: Thursday, October 7th
Time: 7 PM
Location: ZOOM teleconference. A recording of the meeting will be available on YouTube within a few days of the meeting.
https://zoom.us/j/4263755765?pwd=Vzdva1NaODZxUDByQmplcjN4WG5zUT09   OR   Meeting ID: 426 375 5765          Passcode: 791957

Rob Osattin, KI4UTY
🗓 October - November Calendar
Event: ARC Friday Lunch (in person)
Date: Friday, October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29  2021
Time:  12:30 p.m. (1630Z) - 2:00 p.m (1800Z) or thereabouts
Location: Mellow Mushroom Pizza, Brookhaven
Event: Monthly Atlanta Radio Club Meeting
Date: Thursday, October 7, 2021
Time: 7 p.m. ET (2300Z)
Location: Zoom. To join the meeting, click here.
Event: Monthly Atlanta Radio Club Meeting
Date: Thursday, November 4, 2021
Time: 7 p.m. ET (2300Z)
Location: Zoom. To join the meeting, click here.
Event: ARC Friday Lunch (in person)
Date: Friday, November 5, 12, 19, 26  2021
Time:  12:30 p.m. (1630Z) - 2:00 p.m (1800Z) or thereabouts
Location: Mellow Mushroom Pizza, Brookhaven
​​Also, don't forget our groups.io calendar here
2021 Meetings and Events
January: • Meeting: Jim Reed, N4BFR "So you're a licensed ham. Now what?"
February: • Meeting: Dave Slotter, W3DJS "HamPC and HamPi - shacks in a box"
March: • Meeting: Joe Domaleski, KI4ASK, and Mary Catherine Domaleski, KI4HHI  "Portable Ham Radio: An introduction to operating amateur radio outside"
April: • Meeting: Lee Johnson, N4WYE "NanoVNA"; Jeff Clarke, KU8E "Georgia QSO Party"
• ARC Georgia QSO Party event at Brook Run Park
May: • Meeting: Marcel Stieber, AI6MS "Everything you need to know about Lithium Batteries"
June: • Meeting: John Kludt, K7SYS "ARISS Update & into the future"
• ARC Friday Lunches resume
• ARC Field Day
July: • Meeting: Bob Wilson, N6TV "Everything You Need to Know About USB and Serial Interfaces"
• Meeting: Presentation of slates for 2021 ARC Elections
• ARC Friday Lunches
August: • Meeting: 2021 Club Elections; Frank O'Donnell, K6FOD "FT8 and FT4"
• ARC Friday Lunches
September: • Meeting: Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA  "Propagation, Space Weather and the Solar Cycle"
• ARC Breakfast
• Tennessee QSO Party and Bill Perkins (KB4KFT) LXpedition
• ARC in the park operating event and antenna building party for the ARRL VHF Contest
• ARC Breakfast
October: • Meeting: Mel Granick, KS2G "HF Operations"
• ARC Friday Lunches
November: • Meeting:
• ARC Friday Lunches
December: • Meeting:
• ARC Friday Lunches
This column is archived on the Previous Programs page
At Our Last Meeting. . .
Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA  presented on "The Sun, the Ionosphere, Space Weather and Cycle 25".
Carl briefly reviewed solar issues and then tied space weather to propagation. Then he discussed the predictions for Solar Cycle 25, the 11 year sun cycle that started in December 2019, and its current status.
Sun spot predictions are of interest to commercial broadcasters, communications companies and amateur radio operators because of the correlation between sun spots and solar activity, such as solar wind and coronal mass ejections (CME). Those events can alter atmospheric propagation on earth and result in radio signals taking unpredictable paths. Commercial broadcasters and communications companies don't like it when that happens. Hams, on the other hand, are thrilled.
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Video Timeline
0:00 Meeting Intro & Repeater Report
2:29 Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA - Presenter Intro
6:22 The Sun, the Ionosphere, Space Weather and Cycle 25
8:25 Agenda
9:00 Solar Radiation
10:46 Regions (Layers) of the Ionosphere
13:14 General Characteristics of the Regions
15:22 Why Solar Cycles Are Important – High Bands
17:02 Why Solar Cycles Are Important – Low Bands
17:34 Space Weather: A Caveat – What We’re Trying to Do
20:00 Lots of Websites with Data
21:47 What Parameters Are Important?
25:41 All Those Parameters are on the N0NBH Banner
29:47 SFI, SN, EUV
31:26 SFI, SN, EUV vs MUF
33:43 K, A, BZ, SW
35:17 Real-Time QSOs
37:30 Real-Time Ionosphere
39:12 Cycle 25
40:07 Previous 24 Solar Cycles
41:41 Solar Minimums in Our Lifetimes
43:59 The Rise of Cycle 25
45:10 What to Expect if Cycle 25 is Similar to Cycle 24
47:40 Big Spike in SFI and SN
48:59 Moderate Spike in the K Index
50:14 Summary
53:02 Presentation Q&A and End
1:22:30 Meeting Raffle & Club Closing Business

Timestamps courtesy of ARC Member Eric Pourciau, W4EWP
Slides: Here
Video: https://youtu.be/sZlJgFc0fF8
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You'll also be able to find it and our past videos by searching for "The Atlanta Radio Club" on YouTube.

Due to restrictions placed on public gatherings, our meetings are still online.

Past events

Inaugural ARC Monthly Breakfast
We had our first monthly breakfast at Dunkin Donuts, near the Red Cross, where the ARC used to meet before Covid, Saturday morning, September 18. It was originally planned to be at Wendy's, up the street from there, but Wendy's decided not to open for breakfast that day.
Turnout was small but we expect it to increase next time. Stay tuned for the date and location of our next breakfast.
ARC in the park operating event and antenna building party for the ARRL VHF Contest 
We had a fun day in the park on Saturday, September 11, putting up antennas, making contacts, building antennas, talking to passersby who were curious what we were during, and socializing among ourselves.
​Click here for the event summary with photos
Tennessee QSO Party and Bill Perkins, KB4KFT, LXpedition 
On September 12, Bill operated from Tennessee, joined by ARC members John Talipsky, N3ACK, his XYL, Heather, and Jeff Hochberg, W4JEW.
​ARC Field Day 2021 Was A Success
Our 2021 ARRL Field Day event at Brook Run Park was a lot of fun. We operated in class 2B (2 stations running on battery power) and were on the air from 2 p.m., when the event officially started, to dark, about 8:30 p.m.

One station was primarily dedicated to CW and the other to SSB. Some visitors brought their own radios but most primarily operated the SSB station. One ham tried to set up his radio for digital using FT8 but was unsuccessful.
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​Here are a few pix.
The rest of the pictures can be found here.

Georgia QSO PArty 2021 Photos

Click here to see photos from the ARC Georgia QSO Party 2021 event!

Membership

First year FREE for new hams! (Details on Membership page)
Click here for details on how to join or renew your membership

Free License Exam

Because of COVID-19, we must cancel our VE License Exam Sessions.  As of August 1, 2021, there is still no word from our VE (Volunteer Examiner) team as to when or if the testing will resume.
For more information:  Meetings & Events
An FCC Registration Number (FRN) is REQUIRED
​Detailed Rules: https://www.atlantave.team/rules.html
FCC CORES Registration

Nets

Every Sunday night - 8:00 PM ET
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Club History

The Atlanta Radio Club (ARC) was founded in March 1911. It is believed to be the longest continually operating club in Georgia (Georgia Tech was founded earlier). With over 100 members, ARC activities include meetings, operating events, training sessions, membership outings, and community service activities in Metro-Atlanta.

​The ARC helps operate the Atlanta Hamfestival and owns, operates or supports 11 repeaters around the metro area.  In an average month, the club will hold a regular membership meeting, a tech/training session or operating outing, publish the Atlanta Ham newsletter, have 8 lunch outings and host over 20 nets via club repeaters.
Sister Club - Geelong Amateur Radio Club - VK3ATL

Did you know the Atlanta Radio Club has a sister club?

In 2010, Dallas Jones (VK3DJ) from Drysdale, Victoria in Australia visited the United States to meet some friends he met on the air. "During his travels, he visited the Atlanta Radio Club and from all accounts had a great time with the guys."
​2021/2022 Leadership Team

​President - John Talipsky Jr (N3ACK)
Vice President - Skip Kazmarek (K4EAK)
​Secretary and Treasurer - Ade Shamblin (KJ4CUY)
Member at Large - Bill Perkins (KB4KFT)
Member at Large - Rob Osattin (KI4UTY)

Newsletter Editor - Tom Crowley (KT4XN)
Program Director - Rob Osattin (KI4UTY)
Web "master"  - Rob Osattin (KI4UTY)
Video Timelines - Eric Pourciau (W4EWP)
Repeater Trustees
Sponsors
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