A crisp, colorful and clear fall day greeted the DVRA crew as they activated special event station W0W October 27. It was the third annual activation to mark the anniversary of Orson Welles’ 1938 Halloween radio broadcast “War of the Worlds.”
Stations were set up at Van Nest Park in West Windsor,
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On Wednesday, Oct 9, 2024 at 7:00PM, the Delaware Valley Radio Association’s monthly membership meeting featured a presentation by Tim Duffy, K3LR on Contesting.
A couple of months ago we had an introduction to the joys of contesting. Since then we have formed a DVRA contesting group with broad participation of experienced contesters and members new to contesting who want to learn.
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We had a good start in the ARRL EME Contest the weekend of October 18-19. The final contest weekend will be November 16-17. At this half-way point, our totals are 94 QSOs and 85 multipliers (number of different four-character Maidenhead locators worked). In 2022 and 2023 we made 118 and 127 QSOs,
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Welcome Jerome, N2JOV, to our fox hunting group!
Congratulations Jean, AD2EK, on finding all the foxes!
Veterans Park in Hamilton has been our venue of choice for the IARU-Style on-foot fox hunts this year. I wondered if anyone would show up on this rainy Labor Day Sunday. Happily,
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On Wednesday, September 11th at 7:00PM, the Delaware Valley Radio Association’s monthly membership meeting featured a presentation on the “HF Propagation”, given by Saied Seghatoleslami, AD2CC.
There will be a Pizza/Social Hour prior to the meeting at 6PM. Folks are asked to bring their own (soft) beverage.There is no charge for the pizza,
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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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On Wednesday, July 10th at 7:00PM, the Delaware Valley Radio Association’s monthly membership meeting featured a presentation on the “The Joy of Contesting”, given by Doug Grant, K1DG.
There will be a Pizza/Social Hour prior to the meeting at 6PM. Folks are asked to bring their own (soft) beverage.There is no charge for the pizza,
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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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