The 20th International EME [Earth-Moon-Earth] Conference will be held at the College of New Jersey from August 9-11, 2024. The conference was last held in the United States 14 years ago. The DVRA will be helping out during the conference.
During the conference, the club shack will host conference participants taking the EME101 class with operations from the W2ZQ EME station on Friday afternoon.
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Robert, K2KEM – Vera, KE2BQG – Martin, W3PR – Steve, KC2VDL – Dom, N3DD – Ben, KC3VVA
The New Jersey State Triathlon returned this year on July 20th and 21st. DVRA members have assisted at this event for the past 15 years, stationed at communications checkpoints along the bicycle route providing assist in running a communications net for the Bicycle portion of the event.
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DVRA will host another fine Mobile Fox Hunting Session of the 2024 season. Join Huntmaster Glen, NK1N, for this event Sunday, July 7 at 9:00am ET. Hunts are usually done by 12:00 noon.
The starting point for this hunt is the Chapin School South Parking Lot located at 4101 Princeton Pike,
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The DVRA had another exciting and informative seminar at the DVRA shack held on June 29th at 10am.
Here is a link the the presenation: Learn to talk on HF like a Boss!
Want to take advantage of your Technician class privileges on 10 meters?
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Glen, NK1N – James, KB2FCV – Chris, WA2SEM – Ben, KC3VVA – Ryan, K2RPH – Masen – Bill, W2WZ
Rich, KD2CQ Photo
Well, the weather we ordered for June 1st was delivered on time and DVRA conducted a terrific fox hunt at Veterans Park in Hamilton.
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On Saturday mornings, on July 6, hands-on training was available for club members interested in learning the capabilities of our Earth-Moon-Earth (EME) station.
Attendees examined and asked questions about all the important equipment, both hardware and software. Some simple radio astronomy was done by pointing the 3 m dish at the Sun to measure solar radio noise and check antenna pointing.
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The 440 repeater is situated at 840 feet on the tower adjacent to the Quaker Bridge Mall and provides an increased coverage area for our nets. To access the repeater, set your receiver to 442.650 MHz with a +5 MHz transmit offset and a PL tone of 131.8 Hz
With the greater coverage it is now much easier to join our nets:
The Tech Net is held every Sunday night at 9pm.
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It’s time to release the Foxes!
** New Venue **
DVRA will host its second IARU-Style Fox Hunting Session of the 2024 season. IARU-Style is an on-foot fox hunt where multiple foxes are released into the woods for hunters to find – Think: orienteering with radios.
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The 2024 ARRL International Digital Contest is coming up on the weekend of June 1 – 2, from 2 PM local time on Saturday through 8 PM Sunday. We will be operating once again from W2ZQ. We garnered a 2nd place showing in 2023 and are looking for #1 this year !
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The DVRA will once again participate in the annual ARRL Field day. The ARRL Field Day is the single most popular on-the-air event held annually in the US and Canada.
On the fourth full weekend in June, thousands of radio amateurs gather with their clubs, groups or simply with friends to operate from remote locations.
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