UPCOMING EVENTSCOVID-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: March 4 @ 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.
March Meeting (March 3 @ 7 PM ET)
The Atlanta Radio Club is pleased to announce that our March (3th) program will feature Tom Crowley, KT4XN, who will be presenting on the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers.
The Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers, Inc. is a membership supported, non-profit 501(c) (3), educational and scientific corporation. SARA facilitates learning about to the field of Radio Astronomy, provides mentorship to newcomers to our hobby, and shares the excitement of radio astronomy with other interested persons and organizations. SARA has programs about individual and multi station observing, teaches members how to monitor cosmic radio signals, and explains how to share and analyze such signals. SARA encourages educational programs within SARA and also educational outreach initiatives through student and teacher grants for radio astronomy projects. This talk will introduce SARA and give updates on projects and programs from the organization. Date: Thursday, March 3rd Time: 7 PM Location: ZOOM teleconference. https://zoom.us/j/4263755765?pwd=Vzdva1NaODZxUDByQmplcjN4WG5zUT09 Or Meeting ID: 426 375 5765 Passcode: 791957 Meeting Video: HERE Slides: HERE ARRL International DX Contest (SSB) (March 5 @ ? PM ET)
This is one of the major international voice contests, and stations all over the world will be looking for U.S. stations. And we’ll also be calling “CQ DX” to generate some international calls on our own. As usual, we’ll provide radios and antennas, or feel free to bring your own. Further details to be posted as they are available. Rules are available here: http://www.arrl.org/arrl-dx.
Date: Saturday March 5th Time: Noon (1700Z) - 7:30 PM (0030Z) Location: Brook Run Park Near the Treetop Quest 4770 N Peachtree Rd Dunwoody, GA 30338 Talk-in: ARC 2m Repeater (146.820 MHz. PL 146.2)
WSB Radio 100th Anniversary Special Event (March 15 @ ? PM ET)
The ARC will be operating a special event station from WSB Radio in celebration of WSB's 100th anniversary. WSB first went on the air in 2022, 11 years after the Atlanta Radio Club was formed.
The event will take place at WSB's studios in Midtown Atlanta and at their transmitter site across from Northlake Mall. We are encourage everyone to operate from their homes that whole week, using the special event callsign, W5B. Details can be found on our WSB event page. Date: Saturday, March 12th - Saturday, March 19th Time: TBD Location: Your own shack or portable Date: Tuesday, March 15th Time: TBD Location: WSB Radio and TV Studio Parking Lot 1601 West Peachtree St NE Atlanta, GA 30309 Location: WSB Radio Transmitter 4011 Lavista Rd Tucker, GA 30084 🗓 March - April Calendar
Event: Monthly Atlanta Radio Club Meeting - Tom Crowley, KT4XN - Society of Amateur Radio Astronomy (SARA)
Date: Thursday, March 3, 2022 Time: 7 p.m. ET (0000Z) Location: Zoom Event: ARC Friday Lunch (in person)
Date: Fridays, March 4, 11 2022 Time: 12:30 p.m. (1730Z) - 2:00 p.m (1900Z) or thereabouts Date: Fridays, March 18, 25 2022 Time: 12:30 p.m. (1630Z) - 2:00 p.m (1800Z) or thereabouts Location: Mellow Mushroom Pizza, Brookhaven Event: ARRL International DX Contest (SSB)
Date: Saturday, March 5 Time: To Be Determined Location: To Be Determined Event: WSB Radio 100th Anniversary Special Event Station
Date: Saturday, March 12, 2022 - Saturday, March 19, 2022 (operate from home) Time: TBD Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 (Special event station at WSB's Sites) Time: TBD Locations: WSB Radio and TV Studio in Midtown, WSB Radio Transmitter Site, your own home Details: HERE Event: Second Sunday ARC Ham License Testing
Date: Sunday, March 13, 2022 Time: 12 p.m. ET (1600Z) Cost: FREE 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: Georgia Tech Amateur Radio Club / ARC License Testing
Date: Sunday, March 27, 2022 Time: 2:30 p.m. ET (1830Z) Cost: $15 Location: Georgia Tech Van Leer Electrical Engineering Building Room W218 Map: HERE Details: HERE Event: ARC Friday Lunch (in person)
Date: Friday, April 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 2022 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, April 7, 2022 Time: 7 p.m. ET (2300Z) Location: Zoom Event: Second Sunday ARC Ham License Testing
Date: Sunday, April 10, 2022 Time: 12 p.m. ET (1600Z) Cost: FREE 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: Georgia Tech Amateur Radio Club / ARC License Testing
Date: Sunday, April 24, 2022 Time: 2:30 p.m. ET (1830Z) Cost: $15 Location: Georgia Tech Van Leer Electrical Engineering Building Room W218 Map: HERE Details: HERE Event CalendarView our Groups.io calendar on the web here
Subscribe to our calendar (iCal, Google Calendar, Outlook, etc) https://groups.io/g/arc/ics/1861828/1377317764/feed.ics 2022 Summary of Meetings and Events
2021/2022 Leadership TeamPresident - 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) Repeater Trustees
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PAST EVENTSThis column is archived.
Previous ARC Meetings can be found on the Previous Programs page Previous ARC Events and Outings can be found on the Events and Outings page February Meeting (February 3 @ 7 p.m. ET)
Our February meeting featured Ria Jairam, N2RJ, who spoke about Software Defined Radio (SDR). Ria explained that SDR is a marriage between radio hardware and computers. Conventional analog radios use hardware to convert the RF received from the antenna to the audio we hear over the speaker on the transmit side, and from the audio picked up by the microphone to RF we shoot into the antenna on the transmit side. SDR radios convert the RF received from the antenna to a digital signal that is passed to a computer, which performs all of the demodulation and filtering functions that the hardware did in the analog radio, then converts it back to audio to feed into the speaker. On the transmit side, the analog signal from the microphone is converted to a digital signal that is passed to a computer. The computer filters and modulates the signal then passes the digital signal to a converter to convert it to analog. The analog signal is fed into the antenna. Ria showed us diagrams of the major components of SDR radios and discussed the function of each one. That was very helpful. She went on to describe the advantages of SDR over analog radios and talked about the various SDR radios on the market. She showed us where we could find comparisons of the radios. The SDR radios range in price from about $600 to about $6,000 so the comparison numbers are very important. There are also some entry level SDRs available for under $100. They are receive-only. Low end transmit/receive SDRs fall into the $100-$600 range. Ria Jairam, N2RJ is the ARRL Hudson Division Director. She has been licensed since 1997 in Trinidad and Tobago and in the US since 2001. She first became interested in radio at 5 years old from her dad, an avid SWL and learned about amateur radio from a teacher, Mr. Tony Lee-Mack, 9Y4AL. Ria is active in contesting, Dxing, DMR, DSTAR and digital modes. To her name are several DX and contest awards including 9 band DXCC (160 through 10 meters), Challenge at the 1800+ level, all 3 modes and 325 entities mixed. She has also won several contest plaques including regional, national and North American titles in various DX contests. Ria has won a “Top Elmer” award in 2016 for her mentoring on the Flex Radio forums and also helping users use their radios remotely. She subsequently was awarded two “Top Tester” awards in 2017. She is a volunteer QSL card sorter with the W2 QSL bureau, run by the North Jersey DX Association (NJDXA) and is the Northern NJ section manager for the Frankford Radio Club (FRC). She is also the District 2 chair of the Young Ladies Radio League (YLRL) and a member of the British Young Ladies Amateur Radio Association (BYLARA). Ria is an alumna of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, where she studied Electrical Engineering. In the ARRL, Ria is currently a member of the Administration and Finance committee (IT falls under this committee) and the Band Planning committee. Look for her in the DX pileups, often operating remotely, or operating WSJT digital modes to snag a new one. Watch this video. It was very informative. Video: https://youtu.be/rxmi1HBiY38 Slides:: Download Video Timeline CLUB BYLAWS
MEMBERSHIPFirst year FREE for new hams! (Details on Membership page)
Click here for details on how to join or renew your membership FREE LICENSE EXAMIn-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 AWARDThe 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. NETSEvery Sunday night - 8:00 PM ET
More details CLUB HISTORYThe 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 - VK3ATLDid 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." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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