The first half of the EME contest is complete and W2ZQ had a good showing, improving on our previous score. You can still get in on the action on November 8-9, 2025 from 00:00 to 23:59 UTC (08:00 pm on Friday to 7:39 pm on Sunday local time).
Sign up for the November contest here.
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It’s time to release the Foxes!
DVRA will host another fun Mobile Fox Hunting Session of the 2025 season. Join special guest foxes, Rich, KD2CQ, and Bill, W2WZ, for this event Sunday, November 2nd 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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On Saturday, November 8th, at 10am we will hold an additional training session for the W2ZQ HF Station Equipment.
The DVRA will hold its annual Fall clean up event at the DVRA Shack on November 1st
starting at 9am. Besides doing a sweep of the lot to remove any trash, we hope to clear
some brush and paint the rear of the shack building if weather conditions permit.
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The DVRA will be marking the 87th anniversary of the Orson Welles broadcast of the War of the Worlds on October 30, 1938, with a special event station, WØW.
In the broadcast, Martian invaders first landed in Grovers Mill, NJ (in West Windsor township). The DVRA will be operating WØW on Sunday,
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Join us on Oct. 8th at 7:00PM EDT for a presentation by Robert R. Phillips on his experiences with Bing Crosby and the advancement of audio technology in the 1950s. Highlighting the transition from transcription discs to magnetic tape, Phillips details the innovations that shaped the broadcast industry.
Washington Crossing Council Amateur Radio Operators will operate K3OSR and W2ZQ for Jamboree On The Air (JOTA) on October 18, 2025, from 10 AM to 4 PM. All Cub Scouts, Scouts, and Girl Scouts are invited. The event facilitates global communication among Scouts and offers opportunities to earn merit badges.
For those that missed the first two sessions…..We are back ….Check it out!
The seminar will be held on September 27th at 10am at the DVRA shack.
Want to take advantage of your Technician class privileges on 10 meters? Been a Ham for a while but don’t quite know the ropes of HF operations?
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DVRA’s September 10th membership meeting will feature a presentation by Dr Nathaniel A Frissell, titled “HamSCI: Space Weather We Can Do Together!”
Since the 2017 Solar Eclipse QSO Party, the Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI),
has been bringing together amateur radio operators and professional space scientists to
develop new and innovative ways to study space weather and its impacts on the ionosphere
and radio propagation.
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