With the December Party now scheduled for Monday, December 16, and the December business meeting already history, we will have an unusual third-Tuesday Arlington County Net on December 17. Would you l

The weekly Thursday brunch at Silver Diner in Clarendon, 10 am - 12 pm, is canceled on Thanksgiving Day and will resume on Thursday, December 5.

The November 19 meeting of the Arlington Amateur Radio Club will be at the Knights of Columbus Chapter House, 5115 Little Falls Road, in Arlington. The meeting will be in the second-floor conference r

The AARC email account has received an announcement of a Fox Hunt on November 2, 9:30 am - 1:30 pm. The fox den is somewhere in St. Mary's County, Maryland. The event is hosted by the Saint Mary's Cou

Paul, Thank you. I agree. I remember Geocities. I stood up the first W4WVP website on Geocities, when it was free. Yahoo acquired Geocities and started tacking Javascript onto the end of my XHTML 1.0

The ARES E-Letter for October 16, 2019, has been published and is available "for non-commercial or educational purposes, with attribution" at: http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/ares-el/?issue=2019-10-1

Yesterday after 9 pm, Howard Cunningham, WD5DBC, who is coordinating Amateur Radio support for the 44th Marine Corps Marathon on October 27, emailed volunteer operators to say, "...we are short about

Marine Corps Marathon to Use W4WVP Repeaters The W4WVP 2-meter and 70-centimeter repeaters may be used for communications support of the Marine Corps Marathon on Sunday, October 27, 2019, from 4 am un

As Arlington County Net Co-Manager, I am seeking a volunteer to be Net Control Station this Tuesday, September 10, on the W4WVP 2-meter repeater. If you would like to volunteer, please email me at nw3

As a memorial event to honor Astronaut Owen Garriott W5LFL (now Silent Key), ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) is transmitting memorial slow-scan television (SSTV) images on 145

The Arlington _Sun Gazette_, July 18, page 7, has an article, "Q&A: Library 'Maker Space' Debuts." I thought it debuted months ago. Nevertheless, the interview-based article has lots of info on the hi

Yesterday Al K4ZB noticed that the W4WVP 70-cm repeater was inoperative. Later, about 5 pm ET, I was able to raise the repeater, but only temporarily. Al, at the site now with the landlord's Chief Eng

The Arlington Amateur Radio Club home page has been updated with a note on the Field Day 2019 operation of the Alexandria Radio Club, which Arlington Amateur Radio Club members attended. The note incl

Last night Don KI4D wrote that one should use the link https://tinyurl.com/y4eeh7uj to sign up for Field Day operating time. It works for me.73,--Mike nw3v

Last night Don KI4D wrote that one should use the link https://tinyurl.com/y4eeh7ujto sign up for Field Day operating time. It works for me. 73,--Mike nw3v

Corrected (unwrapped) links for W4HFH Field Day briefing and operator sign-up: Briefing: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hydOfyao8HAGt-VewAxwhjZTL0oevrJI/view?usp=sharing Sign-up: https://drive.googl

Don KI4D, Field Day planner for the Alexandria Radio Club Field Day station W4HFH, emailed the following text this morning to Alexandria Radio Club members and myself. I have obtained Don's permission

Jason KD2MYE moved to Arlington two months ago. He seeks help contacting our W4WVP 2-meter repeater using a Baofeng transceiver. He can program it using CHIRP. I don't know where in Arlington Jason is

The next regular meeting will be June 18 at the St. Thomas More Cathedral School starting at 7 pm. Gary Sessums, KC5QCN, Arlington Amateur Radio Club Activities Chairman and Amateur Radio Emergency Se

Gary KC5QCN said at the meeting last night that a one-page PDF excerptof the ARES E-Letter showing only the article on APEX2019 is on thePARC web site. It's at http://www.k4af.org/MARS/ARRL%20ARES%20E