This is ARA member Garry Laing – I am serving as Net Control for the 2021 Fort Ritchie Triathlon. I am looking for a few volunteers to help with communications support during the biking portion of the event. The race is Sunday, August 1, starting at approximately 7:30 am.
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Since we put a website up back in the early 2000s, the home domain has always been W3CWC.ORG – the site has gone through a few hiccups over the decades, but W3CWC.ORG has been a good place for the ARA to hang it’s hat!
Many of you know that the club membership recently approved the addition of a new domain name, ANTIETAMRADIO.ORG and a site re-design to our current repertoire. The website committee envisioned the new domain as a small step toward helping those who are completely new to Amateur Radio, and might not understand the importance of the characters, “W3CWC” or what that group of characters represent. Consider the new domain name as an attempt at improving our brand.
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Field Day 2021 Updates
BRING YOUR HT to FD and setup!!
Most of this Field Day will be similar to that of 2019, rather than 2020, with a few exceptions:
- The Ruritan has erected a large building next to the pavilion
146.94 Repeater Repair Complete
Repairs to ARA repeater, frequency 146.94, were completed the third week of May, 2021.
On May 20, 2021 the tower climber ascended the MPT tower to install a new, two meter antenna and hardline. This is wonderful news for the ARA, and the repair should bring the 94 repeater to within earshot of much more of the county.
Below is a summary an internal report that Dave Isiminger prepared and sent the ARA officers.
[Read More]Past Presentations
We have had quite a few very relevant, well done and interesting presentations over the years – we hope to add all recent presentations, and where possible, those that happened in the not so recent past. Each presenter must give consent before it is published on W3CWC.ORG.
[Read More]ARA 2021-22 Election Results
... was there ever a doubt?
The first order of business that we tackled (the first of its kind for a very long time) was to take roll, shortly followed by voting for club officers for the upcoming terms.
[Read More]2021-22 Candidates
Initially, we didn’t have a full slate of candidates; that is until a past president, Brian Umbrell (W3PDW), was nominated for and accepted the challenge to run for the office of President.
[Read More]Feeling Nostalgic?
...revisit an old friend
While we are still working on bring our current site to the “full splendor and glory” of its prior self, we felt that it might be appropriate to provide access to the recent site.
Before completely stopping the server, Scott requested that Archive.org scan and store our domain, W3CWC.ORG. Their goal is to provide a historical reference to the ever-changing Internet. When I saw just how this worked, I immediately realized just what a wonderful reference tool it is.
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ARA Elections
...not just a job, an adventure
The Antietam Radio Association’s bylaws mandate that we have an election each year for a new slate of officers – according to our current president, Butch (NI2W), the attempts to band together a nominating committee have not been as successful as hoped. He, as the president and having little unilateral authority, recently proposed the following in an email sent to the members of the Executive Board:
[Read More]Amateur Radio Study Options
... a brief collection of study guides
This content was born from an effort to help a new ham that had reached out. This request motivated me to work on the ARA site, and to include a short list of different options that I had used or with which I was already familiar (W5YI.ORG, ARRL.ORG, and KB6NU.COM).
I will be updating and expanding this section as time permits, but since a good portion of my time is now used rebuilding the ARA site, I am adding a few links to those places I found of great benefit.
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W3CWC -- the return
What to expect next
The ARA site was purposely taken down a week or two ago because of the strong suspicion of malicious code, and to bring it back in a more secure, faster performing manner. In this case, it has taken us a little longer than we’d expected to bring everything back up. For that, we apologize.
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