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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Rain was predicted for our first Sunday morning Fox Hunt but if you opted out due to the threatening weather, I’m sorry, you didn’t learn from last October’s event and … you missed another good one.
Two hunters gathered at Veterans Park in Hamilton to take part in DVRA’s first IARU-Style fox hunt of the 2024 season.
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Due to a poor weather forecast for 5/18 and problematic band conditions thanks to solar CMEs, we are rescheduling our POTA activation to MAY 25 and changing the operating time to 2pm – 5pm to catch better band conditions.
DVRA Members and Non-Member Guests: Please join us on Saturday morning,
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The Antenna committee will hold an construction event on Saturday May 11th, 2024 at 10am at the W2ZQ station. We will discuss, design, and construction techniques for Moxon beam antennas. This will be followed by the construction and testing of an antenna that will be used for Field Day.
Contact k3ea.dx@gmail.com with any questions.
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Members of the DVRA, the Delaware Valley Radio Association, operated a Special Event Station to mark the 87th anniversary of the crash of the German airship Hindenburg, May 6, 1937 at Lakehurst, N.J.
Operating under the call sign W2H, the station will be on the air May 4 – 11,
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It’s time to release the Foxes!
** New Day** ** New Venue **
DVRA will host an IARU-Style Fox Hunting Session. 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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We’ve scheduled our annual spring cleanup event at the DVRA shack for April 13th.
If you can help this year, please wear your work clothes, and bring a shovel, brush clippers or pruning saw if you can. Weather permitting, we may also do some painting. We’ll start at 9am.
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