Williamsburg Area Amateur Radio Club
Meetings on 2nd Tuesday, 7PM at James City-Bruton Fire Station in Toano
The January club meeting is the annual business meeting, which is where the slate of officers for the upcoming year are elected. This is the second year in a row where it took place via Zoom due to concerns in …
UPDATE on 1-5-22: The January Meeting has been changed to a ZOOM meeting due to the recent surge in COVID-19 Omicron cases. Please see the Groups.io email list for further details. We hope that everyone has a fantastic and safe holiday …
UPDATE on 1-5-22: The club has decided that due to the Omicron variant of COVID-19 we are no longer promoting this as the annual club dinner. While club members are more than welcome to meet at Sal’s for dinner, this is …
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 …
This Saturday, October 16 is the annual Yorktown Special Event. We will be back at the Yorktown Battlefield this year, set up next to the visitor center. Set up will begin around 8:30am, near the bus parking area. The plan …
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 …
ARRL Field Day is always held on the fourth full weekend in June. It is an emergency preparedness exercise as well as a public relations event for amateur radio. With COVID-19 restrictions mostly lifted, many amateurs are eager to get …
Normally the second Tuesday in June is our annual club picnic. However, because of how COVID-19 has impacted things, we are planning on having it later in the year. More details will be posted here when they are finalized. In …
While COVID-19 is still an issue for much of the country, WAARC was able to hold it’s annual Jamestown Landing Day special event out on Jamestown Island this year on Saturday, May 8. With many club members now vaccinated and …
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