On Saturday, August 14th the AARC VE Team conducted it's monthly amateur radio exam session at the AARC clubhouse. We had 12 applicants show up including a blind applicant.

The following applicants earned an upgrade to their license or earned a new Technician license. In fact, everyone passed their exam on the first try. when you hear these hams on the air, don't forget to congratulate them on their accomplishment and wlecome the new hams to our hobby:

Dye, Michael (KB3MIZ) - Upgraded to General

The 2011 Maryland-DC QSO Party will be conducted 13-14 August 2011.

Thanks to those of you who participated in this year’s MDC QSO Party despite the terrible operating conditions on Saturday. According to the logs we’ve received so far, it looks like Sunday was the best day to be operating. I hope you had fun on Sunday.

On Saturday, 14 August, Spaceweather.com reported the following:

The 2010 Maryland-DC QSO Party is in the books and the first logs have started rolling in. So far six logs have been received electronically.

Question: Was it a success?

On Saturday, June 12th the AARC VE Team conducted it's monthly amateur radio exam session at the AARC clubhouse. For reasons not quite clear we had an unexpectedly high turnout of 17 applicants.

We administered a total of 21 exams.

11 Technician (Element 2)
10 General (Element 3)

As a result, 10 new hams (9 Technicians and 1 General) walked out of the clubhouse on Saturday as well as five Technicians who upgraded to General. When you hear the call signs listed below, be sure to congratulate them and welcome the new hams.

Greetings,

This past weekend I participated in a second "Cram Course" for the Technician Class license. The program was sponsored by the Baptist church in Upper Marlboro and Bob/KB3MPR and Kim/KB3NGU coordinated the event. The Baptist church in Upper Marlboro deploys a mobile laundry facility to support "First Responders". Other churches deploy mobile kitchens and mobile showers. The Baptist sponsored disaster support teams ar encouraging their members to get their amateur radio license.

On Saturday, May 8th the AARC VE Team conducted it's monthly amateur radio exam session at the AARC clubhouse. For this time of year we had an unexpectedly low turnout of three applicants.

We administered a total of three exams.

Two Technician (Element 3)
One Amateur Extra (Element 4)

Everyone passed their exam on the first try!

Thanks to the following VEs who helped make this exam session a success:

Holly/N3MB
Brenda/KB3ATI
Oscar/NV3G
Mike/KA2JAI
Chuck/AA3CS
Gene/KG7XD
Rob/N3HU
Chuck/K3ACT
Dick/WW3R
Steve/K3BAY

This is the last call for participants in the General Class Licensing Course which starts next Saturday, 24 April at 0900.

You need to notify Rick/KK4GV right away so he can order some additional license manuals and arrange for you to pick yours up so you can read Chapter 3 prior to the class session on 24 April. kk4gv@w3vpr.org

On Saturday, April 10th we had another awesome exam session at the AARC clubhouse that was highlighted by an unusually large number of applicants (six) taking the Element 4 (Amateur Extra) exam.

Congratulations to the following:

Herschel - KB3TRR - Upgraded to Amateur Extra
Charles - New Ham - General - KB3UHQ
Theo - KB3TUR - Upgraded to Amateur Extra
Norman - KB3OLX - Upgraded to Amateur Extra
Gordon - W3MOE - Upgraded to Amateur Extra
Dennis - KB3TRY - Upgraded to General

Another AARC sponsored Technician Course has been successfully completed.

Congratulations to:

Keith (KB3UDM) - Early graduate and upgraded to General
Jacob (KB3UDN) - Early graduate
Dennis (KB3UHR)
Chantel (KB3UHS)
Richard (KB3UHT)
Bill (KB3UHU)

The AARC will offer the General Class Licensing course starting on April 24th.

Hopefully license manuals will be available for pick-up next Saturday (17th)

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There will be no Morse Code Training Class this weekend (Saturday, 3 April) due to Easter Weekend or the following weekend (10 April) due to the scheduled monthly exam session. However, I'm open to doing code practice following the exam session. Let me know - codementor@w3vpr.org

Having said that, I will be at the club house on Saturday (3 April) from 0900-1200 for the students in the Tech class and from Noon until 1300 if anyone is interested in some code practice and drills.