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Big Thanks –End Fed is back up
More work is needed to get all antennas working better on the bands. If you are willing to help tune the two wire antennas lets connect on Discord. /radio equipment/antennas
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America 250 Worked All States
The ARRL has a new event going on this year to celebrate 250 years of America.
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Forums now on Discord
Welcome to the New and Improved W3VPR website. A committee has been developing the site and is looking for your input on how it is going. What would you like to see? We used to have Forums, rarely used but we had them. The new website will be using an app called “Discord”, available…
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Maryland-DC QSO Party
Event Help Needed The club needs assistance with the Maryland-DC QSO Party. If you are able to help with the planning and execution, contact chairperson at mdcqsop@w3vpr.org. (From ARRL Contest Update newsletter, July 30, 2025) The Maryland-DC QSO Party, sponsored by the Anne Arundel Radio Club (AARC), begins at 1400 UTC on Saturday, August…
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Field Day 2026
The dates for the 2026 Field Day are June 27 – 28, 2026. We are always looking for people who would like to participate or take lead positions. You could coordinate operations, logging, signups, food and many other positions that will need someone to help plan and coordinate. Or just let us know that…
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Net Etiquette Recommendation
The AARC Net Coordinator and Net Controller staff recognize that there are times when a topic cannot be sufficiently expounded upon in the two-minute time frame allotted. To do so might interrupt the logical flow of the thoughts being presented. However, please keep in mind that others on the net, especially commuters, mobile units…
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6-meter Presentation Available
Francis Donovan, W3LPL, gave an excellent presentation on 6-Meter Long Distance Propagation on Thursday, July 17th at the membership Presentation Meeting. For folks that were unable to attend or that would like a copy of Frank’s Power Point presentation, please email secretary@w3vpr.org. Due to the size of the Power Point deck (> 2 megabytes)…
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W3VPR Repeaters
The Anne Arundel Radio Club operates several repeaters. 2-meter repeaters The Crownsville repeater (147.075+ PL 107.2) is our main repeater and is located on the Anne Arundel County tower on Harkins Rd, near the Maryland Public Television tower. There are additional input sites (voter repeaters), all using the same frequency and PL tones, located…
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Equipment Sales
Eric and Ike will not be on site regularly for a few weeks. If you want to purchase something on the FOR SALE list please contact Eric and Ike at sales@w3vpr.org