Saturday, October 16 was the annual Yorktown Special Event. We were back at the Yorktown Battlefield this year. Set up started around 8:30am near the visitor center with a K3 rig and a club battery, and an OCF dipole nice …
Jerome K8LF hosted an antenna-build-a-thon at the James City-Bruton Volunteer Fire Department on Saturday morning. He had put together 49:1 impedance transformer kits for end-fed halfway antennas. Five hams came with their kits and learned to wind primary and secondary …
Congratulations to Moritz K4MRZ and Donna KD2FYX! Moritz upgraded to Amateur Extra and Donna upgraded to General. What better way to start the Field Day weekend than doing it with upgraded licenses. It wasn’t easy for them either. The exams …
This past Saturday, April 24, the Vienna Wireless Society hosted the ARRL Virginia Section Convention for 2021. Club president Toby KL0SS was a speaker in two of the sessions. Click here to get to links for recordings of the sessions. …
Following the success of the Friday, April 23 test session in Toano, a second session was held at the James City-Bruton Volunteer Fire Department on Monday, April 26. The five examinees all passed their tests. There were 2 new licensees …
On Friday April 23, 2021 six hams took seats in the James City-Bruton Volunteer Fire Department’s social classroom to sit for upgrade exams. By the end of the session all six passed their test. Congratulations to Kenzie KO4GLN, Robert KN4UUT …
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WAARC Training Coordinator Wally Frank WA3RWP (right) presents Randy Altona KM4YSN with his ARRL Instructor Patch after successfully completing his first teaching duties during the club’s recent Technician licensing course. The course was taught using the Zoom teleconferencing platform because …
We have a lot of newer members in the Williamsburg Area Amateur Radio Club, and with the COVID restrictions and practices, many may not have had the opportunity to get to know Bill Conkling, NR4C who became a silent key …
On Saturday March 20th our WAARC Director at Large Dino Papas KLØS hosted the one-year anniversary edition of the club’s daily Coffee & Radio Net. There were 47 net members who checked in by radio with a number using the …
Congratulations to Patti KB4PAT who passed her General exam today under the watchful eye of the WAARC VE team. Led by Kerry NH2A, our club VE Coordinator, and VEs Pat KA4PAB, Jim AF4QG and Jack KY4EA the team gathered at …
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