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The weekly Williamsburg-James City County ARES net is each Wednesday at 7:30pm on the '76 repeater.

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WAARC Recent News

- December 2019 Club Meeting Location
  December 4, 2019Due to ongoing renovations at the James City County Library, the December club meeting and hour of power will take place at the Stryker Center in downtown Williamsburg, at 412 N Boundary Street. The Hour of Power will take place at 6PM and the club meeting at 7pm. More information about the temporary meeting location can be found here.... Read more...
- Randy’s Antenna party
  November 24, 2019From Randy KM4YSN: I want express my thanks to all those who came over to my house to help with the “antenna rais’n.” When all is said and done, the antenna is working as designed! I have made several contacts already on 20 and 80 meters. I don’t want to miss anyone so I will not mention specific names but everyone eagerly jumped in to lend their knowledge and experience to the task at hand. The End-Fed Half-Wave dipole was raised at the center of the stainless-steel insulated wire to approximately 50 feet into an oak tree utilizing a spud-launcher, rope, pass through insulator for the wire and steady hands. The 139-foot antenna was tied down at the other side of the yard and the transformer end was bolted to the back side of the house. I am not sure if the antenna is an inverted-V or a lazy-L? An antenna analyzer was applied with good results on all rated bands. The first tests were no good until the lightening arrestor was removed. A replacement will be put on order. A special thanks to those who supplied the spud-launcher, antenna analyzer, rope, and your time. The day turned out to be a very good one, but cold! (See pictures below)... Read more...
- November Club Meeting Location
  November 6, 2019Due to ongoing renovations at the James City County Library, the November club meeting and hour of power will take place at the Stryker Center in downtown Williamsburg, at 412 N Boundary Street. The Hour of Power will take place at 6PM and the club meeting at 7pm. More information about the temporary meeting location can be found here.... Read more...
- NR4C’s Review of Yorktown 2019 special event
  November 1, 2019I want to thank all the people who ventured out in the magnificent weather conditions to help make our event at Yorktown a spectacular success this year. We had a total was over 190 logged contacts with some contacts with BSA activities where we had QSOs with several Scouts each time. Kudos to the brave ones who showed up early to fight the rising sun on the Parkway and the wet grass to setup the station and the ones who were there at tear down time at the end of the day. And then a big hand for those who logged or operated during the day. And, last but not least, the food committee who brought out drink and snacks and of course, Jay (KN4KXK) and Bill (WA4LMG) who treated us to homemade Banana Bread, and Strawberry Pie! We were visited by a lot more of the many attendees to the celebration events downtown as they used the foot path to the monument for access. And then there was Heather Trimble (K3HLT), a fifer in the “Old Guard Fife and Drum” from Ft. Meyer, VA. She is also the President of the Mt. Vernon Amateur Radio Club. She has been with the “Guard” for 15 years after 4 years with Disney at EPCOT. We got pictures of her on the radio with Will at the computer and again with Ed on the rig. All in all, a great day. Don’t miss this event next year! Bill. NR4C ... Read more...
- VE Sessions of Oct 2019 a big sucess
  October 27, 2019The club’s VE testing sessions on October 21, 24 and 26 were a big success. There were 19 candidates and 12 received new licenses with two of those passing both the Technician and General tests. There were 5 previous Technicians who upgraded to General. We’ll be welcoming the new Technicians as club members as well (Technician course attendees who pass their exam are given a one-year free club membership). Below are pictures of the candidates with their new CSCE forms along with their instructors (Kerry NH2A, Wally WA3RWP, Toby KL0SS and Dino KL0S). And then there is the paperwork, with VEs working on the stack! The Sessions: Thursday October 24 was a session specifically arranged for graduates of our recently concluded General and Technician License Courses. We had a good turnout of 11 candidates. The highlight of this session was everyone passed, including nine year old Solana Stevenson who practically aced her Technician exam. Pat Brass passed her Technician AND General. One more item of interest— three of the successful examinees, Randy, Mari Ann and Solana, represent three generations of hams in the same family. (This is one example of why being a VE is so rewarding for me.) Good job to all! New Generals: Larry Muncy KN4UPJ, Pat Brass, Peter Brown KN4UPM, Randy Altona KM4YSN. New Technicians: William Stickney, William Robinson, Barbara Burris, Frederick Sanborn, Mari Ann Stevenson, Mark Brinkley, and Solana Stevenson (Pat Brass who went on to pass her General). (not all photos in matching name order). On Saturday October 26 we had a scheduled session that was attended by 5 examinees. Congratulations to Cynthia Frank K4CEF for passing her General. Also, congrats to Mark Smiley (shown with Dino) who passed his Technician and then went on to easily pass his General. And finally congrats to John W. Neiland (shown with Kerry) for passing his Technician. On Monday October 21 we held a special exam session for a few folks who were not going to be able to attend either of the two scheduled exam sessions. Congratulations to Tom Nickols KM4TNE for upgrading to General. Congrats are also in order to Ronald Kleiman and Kent Hammack for passing their Technician exam. We hope to hear both on the air as soon as the FCC assigns them their call signs. We were able to arrange this session on short notice because we are now field stocked and have the flexibility to conduct test sessions at our discretion.... Read more...
- WA3RWP programs an HT
  October 25, 2019Wally Frank WA3RWP, our WAARC Training Coordinator, helps Technician licensing class student Pat Bass program her new Wouxun HT for the local repeaters following the course review session. Pat passed her Technician exam and even went on to pass her General exam as well. Hopefully her new call will be in the FCC database soon and she can talk to all of us on 2m and 440 MHz! Look for a detailed report and more pictures from the recent VE sessions in another news item shortly.... Read more...

Previous news posts can be found here.

About WAARC

Welcome to the WAARC web page. We are a general interest radio club in Williamsburg, Virginia, located in the historic triangle of Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown. Club members participate in a variety of activities, including chasing DX, contesting, and public service.

About the Club

Special Events

WAARC has three special events each year:

Jamestown in May
Colonial Williamsburg in July
Yorktown in October

For more about our annual special events, visit our special events page.

Repeaters and Nets

146.760 MHz (- 0.600) Skywarn Repeater
147.105 MHz (+ 0.600) IRLP Repeater
444.100 MHz (+ 5.00) Local UHF Machine
Click here for more local repeater info
Local ARES Net held every Wednesday at 7:30pm, on the 146.76 repeater.

groups.io

Recently the club has switched over its communications platform from Yahoo to groups.io. If you are a local ham please sign up for our groups.io page.

To sign up, visit groups.io, sign up for an account, then search for the WAARC-K4RC group to join!

Field Day

Delegate Brenda Pogge, Virginia 96th District House of Delegates, visits the Williamsburg Area Amateur Radio Club’s 2017 Field Day event and operates the “Get on the Air” station under the tutelage of Wally Frank WA3RWP. Picture courtesy of club member Dan Ewart WG4F.

Williamsburg Area Amateur Radio Club • P.O. Box 1470, Williamsburg VA 23187 • info@k4rc.net

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