March 15, 2022
WSB Radio 100th Anniversary Special Event (March 15 @ ? PM ET)
WSB Radio 100th Anniversary Special Event (March 15 @ ? PM ET)
The ARC operated a special event station 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 took place at WSB's studios in Midtown Atlanta and at their transmitter site across from Northlake Mall.
People also participated from their homes.
All participants used the special event vanity callsign W5B, which was assigned to us for the week.
About 2,300 contacts were made during the week. Specially designed QSL cards will be sent to all of the contacts who request one.
Details can be found on our WSB event page.
Date: Saturday, March 12th - Saturday, March 19th
Time: 2:00 PM (1700Z)
Location: Your own shack or portable
Date: Tuesday, March 15th
Time: 9:00 AM (1300Z)
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
The event took place at WSB's studios in Midtown Atlanta and at their transmitter site across from Northlake Mall.
People also participated from their homes.
All participants used the special event vanity callsign W5B, which was assigned to us for the week.
About 2,300 contacts were made during the week. Specially designed QSL cards will be sent to all of the contacts who request one.
Details can be found on our WSB event page.
Date: Saturday, March 12th - Saturday, March 19th
Time: 2:00 PM (1700Z)
Location: Your own shack or portable
Date: Tuesday, March 15th
Time: 9:00 AM (1300Z)
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
ARRL International DX Contest (SSB) (March 5 @ noon ET)
Update: The event was a success. We had 2 radios set up and we made many DX contacts with hams in Italy, France, and Africa. We almost made contact with a ham in Syria.
Event: 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
Event: 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
March 5, 2022
Atlanta radio club / ARRL INternational dx contest (ssb)
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
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
January 29-30, 2022
Atlanta radio club / ARES 2022 winter field Day
Posted by: Skip K4EAK VP, ARC
1. Winter Field Day occurs from 2:00pm on Saturday to 2:00pm on Sunday. But there is no need to be there for the entire period. If you can only come for an hour or two, please do! Feel free to come by for a while on Saturday afternoon, or Saturday evening, or Sunday morning. We’ll be there.
2. Winter Field Day is sort of a “contest,” so we’ll have at least three different HF stations set up, plus at least one VHF/UHF station, and we’ll need operators to make contacts. Or, feel free to bring your own radio and you can plug into one of the antennas we’ll have set up. Or bring your own antenna that you’ve been meaning to test. Seriously. If you’ve been hankering to play around with your new equipment, this is your chance, especially since we’ll have experts and the necessary test equipment to get you set up and on the air.
3. But the event is more than just a contest. It’s also a way to learn, practice, and prepare for emergency or community service operations. Part of that is just equipment setup, but we’ll also be doing some additional activities. For example, we’ll be sending Winlink “email” messages via HF to other participating clubs. If you’re interested in learning how to do this, you should come by and we can walk you through the process. We’ll also be using D-STAR and other digital modes, even though they won’t count for “points” in the contest. Again, if you’re interested, you should come by.
And that’s also part of the reason we’ll shoot for operating well into the night. Emergency operations often occur for protracted periods during adverse conditions. (I guess this goes without saying, but most emergencies occur during, by definition, “adverse conditions.” 😊 ) For example, while it’s too early to state conditions with any certainty, the current long-range forecast for our area certainly has the prospects of being “adverse”:
1. Winter Field Day occurs from 2:00pm on Saturday to 2:00pm on Sunday. But there is no need to be there for the entire period. If you can only come for an hour or two, please do! Feel free to come by for a while on Saturday afternoon, or Saturday evening, or Sunday morning. We’ll be there.
2. Winter Field Day is sort of a “contest,” so we’ll have at least three different HF stations set up, plus at least one VHF/UHF station, and we’ll need operators to make contacts. Or, feel free to bring your own radio and you can plug into one of the antennas we’ll have set up. Or bring your own antenna that you’ve been meaning to test. Seriously. If you’ve been hankering to play around with your new equipment, this is your chance, especially since we’ll have experts and the necessary test equipment to get you set up and on the air.
3. But the event is more than just a contest. It’s also a way to learn, practice, and prepare for emergency or community service operations. Part of that is just equipment setup, but we’ll also be doing some additional activities. For example, we’ll be sending Winlink “email” messages via HF to other participating clubs. If you’re interested in learning how to do this, you should come by and we can walk you through the process. We’ll also be using D-STAR and other digital modes, even though they won’t count for “points” in the contest. Again, if you’re interested, you should come by.
And that’s also part of the reason we’ll shoot for operating well into the night. Emergency operations often occur for protracted periods during adverse conditions. (I guess this goes without saying, but most emergencies occur during, by definition, “adverse conditions.” 😊 ) For example, while it’s too early to state conditions with any certainty, the current long-range forecast for our area certainly has the prospects of being “adverse”:
This could be really fun. If you’d like to challenge yourself, and operate under conditions that really demonstrate your capabilities, this is your chance.
4. Sweetwater Creek State Park is a great park, with wonderful hikes, along with a wonderful museum and nature center. It looks like there’s also a geocaching course of some type. Feel free to bring your family and they can enjoy the park while you rack up radio time. There are tent sites and yurts available, so if you need overnight accommodations, let us know and we’ll provide details.
5. For dinner on Saturday night, we’re going to be a little eccentric. We’ll have ordinary food available, including BBQ, but since field operations aren’t always as luxurious, we’ll also have MREs available, which are often the provisions provided in such locations. MREs are actually not as bad as you might think (despite the fact that some soldiers say “MRE” does not stand for “meals-ready to eat,” but rather “meals rejected by Ethiopians”). So consider operating through the dinner period on Saturday and treat yourself to one of these delights!
6. For those coming a special "I survived Winter Field Day 2022" t-shirt will be available, a $5.00 donation to help defray costs would be great! Donation jar will be out on the table. Email John Talipsky your size [email protected].
7. Depending on any interest, I'll also do a POTA and/or RaDAR activation on Saturday morning, January 29. RaDAR could be fun, and if an old, fat, decrepit guy with bad knees like me can do it, trust me, anyone can. We could start at the visitor center, hike down to the ruins and back, setting up in a couple places more than 1km apart along the way, and earn ourselves a beautiful Warthog RaDAR certificate. (That may be the first time the words “beautiful” and “warthog” have ever occurred next to each other.) Or, if folks would prefer, we'll just do a regular POTA activation in the camping area. Either way, if that's something you'll show up for, let me know.
Please let us know if you’ll be coming. So we can prepare for the food supplies.
And please feel free to contact us with any questions.
4. Sweetwater Creek State Park is a great park, with wonderful hikes, along with a wonderful museum and nature center. It looks like there’s also a geocaching course of some type. Feel free to bring your family and they can enjoy the park while you rack up radio time. There are tent sites and yurts available, so if you need overnight accommodations, let us know and we’ll provide details.
5. For dinner on Saturday night, we’re going to be a little eccentric. We’ll have ordinary food available, including BBQ, but since field operations aren’t always as luxurious, we’ll also have MREs available, which are often the provisions provided in such locations. MREs are actually not as bad as you might think (despite the fact that some soldiers say “MRE” does not stand for “meals-ready to eat,” but rather “meals rejected by Ethiopians”). So consider operating through the dinner period on Saturday and treat yourself to one of these delights!
6. For those coming a special "I survived Winter Field Day 2022" t-shirt will be available, a $5.00 donation to help defray costs would be great! Donation jar will be out on the table. Email John Talipsky your size [email protected].
7. Depending on any interest, I'll also do a POTA and/or RaDAR activation on Saturday morning, January 29. RaDAR could be fun, and if an old, fat, decrepit guy with bad knees like me can do it, trust me, anyone can. We could start at the visitor center, hike down to the ruins and back, setting up in a couple places more than 1km apart along the way, and earn ourselves a beautiful Warthog RaDAR certificate. (That may be the first time the words “beautiful” and “warthog” have ever occurred next to each other.) Or, if folks would prefer, we'll just do a regular POTA activation in the camping area. Either way, if that's something you'll show up for, let me know.
Please let us know if you’ll be coming. So we can prepare for the food supplies.
And please feel free to contact us with any questions.
January, 2022 (All month)
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.
Starts January 1, 2022 to 23:59 January 31, 2022
Share this information with your friends!
73 John Talipsky N3ACK
Atlanta Radio Club W4DOC
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.
Starts January 1, 2022 to 23:59 January 31, 2022
Share this information with your friends!
73 John Talipsky N3ACK
Atlanta Radio Club W4DOC
December 4, 2021 (Saturday)
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!
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!
December 2, 2021 (Thursday)
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.
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 30, 2021 (Saturday)
October Field Event:
Parks on the Air (POTA) Activation
Parks on the Air (POTA) Activation
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.
Details can be found here.
September 18, 2021 (Saturday)
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.
Turnout was small but we expect it to increase next time. Stay tuned for the date and location of our next breakfast.
September 12, 2021 (Sunday)
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.
September 11, 2021 (Saturday)
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
Click here for the event summary with photos
June 26, 2021 (Saturday)
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.
Here are a few pix.
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.
Here are a few pix.
The rest of the pictures can be found here.
April 10, 2021 (Saturday)
Georgia QSO PArty 2021 Photos
Click here to see photos from the ARC Georgia QSO Party 2021 event!