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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
February Meeting (February 3 @ 7 p.m. ET)
Ria Jairam, N2RJ will be presenting on Software Defined Radios (SDR). As we know, the two main functions of a radio are to:
  • convert radio frequency signals received from the antenna into audio, cw and/or data
  • convert audio, cw and/or data into radio frequency signals that are transmitted through the antenna
Conventional radios perform these functions in hardware (discrete resisters, capacitors, inductors,  transistors, ic's, switches, etc). When you want to add or change the functionality of a conventional radio you have to add and/or modify the hardware.
SDR radios perform (just about) all of their functions in software. They are hardware devices, too,  but they are computers, not radios. When you want to add or change the functionality of an SDR radio, you add or modify the software. No hardware changes.
Ria will tell us what SDRs are, how they work and where they should and should not be used. A Q&A will follow her talk.
​Ria Jairam, N2RJ is the Division Director of the. Hudson (NY/NJ) Division of the ARRL. She holds an extra class license and lives in New Jersey

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The Heat is On
WinterHeat 2022 that is. Join over 600 Hams, logging  more than 50,000 contacts in 2021, this January 2022 in a month long amateur radio simplex event.
 
This event has been operating as a regional event in Illinois but is open to all licensed Hams. 
 
So folks here in Georgia can take advantage of a pretty slick logging page to keep track of your contacts as well as see how other locals Hams are making out. 
 
The goal and purpose is for amateur radio operators, testing their station setups, to make as many contacts as possible over a month long period of time using only designated simplex frequencies. 
 
No need to reinvent the wheel here. Let's take advantage of what's already in place and have some fun experimenting with voice FM simplex.
 
Go to Hamactive.com, sign up, read the guidelines, and get your radio/antenna setups tuned up! Join the WinterHeat facebook group here.
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Starts January 1, 2022 to 23:59 January 31, 2022
Share this information with your friends!
 
​73 John Talipsky N3ACK
Atlanta Radio Club W4DOC


​Friday Lunches (in person) are Back
​(Next: January 7 @ 12:30 PM ET)
Join us at the Mellow Mushroom in Brookhaven for our first Friday lunch get together of 2022. The food is good and the company is better. Everyone is invited.

🗓 January - February Calendar
Event: Monthly Atlanta Radio Club Meeting
Date: Thursday, January 6, 2022
Time: 7 p.m. ET (0000Z)
Location: Zoom. To join the meeting, click here.

Event: ARC Friday Lunch (in person)
Date: Friday, January 7, 14, 21, 28 2022
Time:  12:30 p.m. (1730Z) - 2:00 p.m (1900Z) or thereabouts
Location: Mellow Mushroom Pizza, Brookhaven

Event: Second Sunday ARC Ham License Testing
Date:  Sunday, January 9, 2022
Time: 12 p.m. ET (1700Z)
Location: DeKalb-Peachtree Airport Administration Building                       Community Room #227
                   (Opposite side of building from Downwind                                   Restaurant)
                   2000 Airport Road, Atlanta, GA 30341
Details: 
https://atlantave.org/

Event: Monthly Atlanta Radio Club Meeting
Date: Thursday, February 3, 2022
Time: 7 p.m. ET (0000Z)
Location: Zoom. To join the meeting, click here.

Event: ARC Friday Lunch (in person)
Date: Friday, February 4, 11, 18, 25, 2022
Time:  12:30 p.m. (1730Z) - 2:00 p.m (1900Z) or thereabouts
Location: Mellow Mushroom Pizza, Brookhaven

Event: Second Sunday ARC Ham License Testing
Date:  Sunday, February 13, 2022
Time: 12 p.m. ET (1700Z)
Location: DeKalb-Peachtree Airport Administration Building                       Community Room #227
                   (Opposite side of building from Downwind                                   Restaurant)
                   2000 Airport Road, Atlanta, GA 30341
Details: 
https://atlantave.org/
​​Also, don't forget our groups.io calendar here
If you are using iCal, Google Calendar, Outlook, or many other calendar programs, you can subscribe to our calendar by subscribing to: https://groups.io/g/arc/ics/1861828/1377317764/feed.ics



2021 Meetings and Events
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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 Friday Lunches
• 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
• ARC/Laurel VEC License Testing at PDK
• ARC Parks on the Air (POTA) event at the Chattahoochee National Recreation Area
November: • Meeting: Eddie Leighton, ZS6BNE "RaDAR Rapid Deployment of Amateur Radio"; Fred Hopengarten, Esq., K1VR, Mickey Baker, N4MB "Antennas, Zoning and HOAs";
• ARC Friday Lunches
• Stone Mountain Hamfest (ARC Booth)
• ARC/Laurel VEC License Testing at PDK
December: • ARC Holiday Party
• ARC Friday Lunches
• ARC Special Event Station - 200th Anniversary of the birth of Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross
• ARC/Laurel VEC License Testing at PDK

Past events

This column is archived on the Previous Programs page
January Meeting (January 6 @ 7 p.m. ET)

Jeff Hochberg, W4JEW, gave us a fact-filled presentation on DMR. He first gave a brief description of DMR, followed by a definition of terms. Most of the talk was on codeplugs, the configuration files that we have trouble creating and maintaining.
We had a problem recording the talk via zoom but Jeff was able to record most of his presentation so we should have that online within a few days.
Here are links to a few DMR resources that were mentioned during the talk.
  • ARC Repeater Information
  • ​ARC Repeater Status
  • Georgia DMR site maintained by Jeff
  • The Amateur Radio Guide to Digital Mobile Radio (2nd Edition) - John Burningham - W2XAB
  • Introduction to DMR - Jeff Hochberg - W4JEW
  • The DMR Documentation Project - Fred Moore - WD8KNI
Jeff is a subject matter expert on DMR. He:
  • is a former president of the ARC
  • installed, configured and maintains the ARC’s DMR repeaters
  • co-founded the weekly Wednesday night Georgia-wide DMR net
  • presented on DMR at a forum at last fall’s Stone Mountain Hamfest

Special Event Station at the Red Cross in Celebration of the Anniversary of the Birth of Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross (December 4 @ 10 AM ET)
The ARC (Atlanta Radio Club) deployed a special event station (WG4ARC) at the ARC (American Red Cross) to celebrate Clara Barton. It was the 200th anniversary of her birth.

We had 2 stations outside the HQ building, on 20m USB and 40m LSB, operated by Atlanta Radio Club members and the Red Cross ran their station that's located inside the building on 80m LSB and D-STAR.
We made quite a few contacts in New York State, Texas, Michigan, North Carolina, Connecticut, California and Canada. Skip Kazmarek, K4EAK, ARC VP, designed a great QSL card that we will be mailing to everyone we made  contact with.

Like most other clubs, we have a policy of allowing and encouraging all participants who would like to get on the air and/or log our QSOs to get on the air and/or log our QSOs. They don't even need licenses. Everyone who wanted to operate today operated.

One of our members, Mike Lozano, KF4UPO, treated us to lunch from Chick-fil-A. Thanks, Mike.

The event was a joint project of the Atlanta Radio Club and the Red Cross. The call we all used, WG4ARC, belongs to the Red Cross.

Happy Birthday, Clara!

ARC Holiday Party (December 2 @ 7 PM ET)
The Atlanta Radio Club met for dinner and fellowship at the Mad Italian in Doraville. About 10 of us attended and had a really good time.

John Talipsky, Jr, N3ACK, ARC President announced that Jeff Hochberg, W4JEW, is the W4DOC Ham of the Year for 2021. Jeff is a former ARC President and is currently a technical advisor to the club. He's also a co-founder of the weekly Georgia DMR Net, and a presenter on DMR at clubs and hamfests. He's also a fantastic local DMR Elmer and resource. Congratulations, Jeff

Door prizes were given out to several lucky attendees. The main prize was a NanoVNA antenna analyzer. It was won by Jeff. He had a good night.
​We also awarded 6 secondary prizes of Atlanta Radio Club Hoodies and T-Shirts. Congratulations to the winners.


Happy Holidays to all.

October Field Event:
Parks on the Air (POTA) Activation
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The October field event was a lot of fun. We did a "Parks on the Air" (POTA) activation of the Johnson Ferry South Unit of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area (Park K-0662). We set up 4 antennas and 2 radios and made a lot of contacts on CW, SSB and FT-8.  One of those contacts was with a station in Italy.
Details can be found here.

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!


Club bylaws

arc_bylaws_oct_2016.pdf
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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

In-person Second Sunday License Testing at Peachtree-DeKalb Airport (PDK) has resumed!! 
For more information:  Meetings & Events

An FCC Registration Number (FRN) is REQUIRED
​Detailed Rules: https://www.atlantave.team/rules.html
FCC CORES Registration

Worked all Georgia Award

The Atlanta Radio Club, with the support of the Georgia Section of the ARRL, is proud to support the "Worked All Georgia" Award. The WAG Award is open to radio amateurs who can provide proof of two-way radio amateur radio contact with all 159 counties in the state of Georgia. This award is nice complement to the annual Georgia QSO Party, which in fact would be a good time to work on some of those hard-to-get counties. The award is embodied in a nice certificate.
More information can be found here.

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.

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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
  • W4DOC (FM/D-STAR/DMR at BoA Tower) - Stephen Slider (KG4PTO)
  • WX4GPB (D-STAR at Stone Mountain) - Robin Cutshaw (AA4RC)
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