136 results for author: Scott Toth

Winter Field Day with GARA

Winter Field Day (WFD) will take place starting Saturday, January 25, at  2 PM  and ending Sunday, January 26 at 2 PM. Just like the ARRL Field Day. We can start setting up the Friday before (Jan. 24) no earlier than 2 PM. This year, we will be operating from Hagan Stone park, group campsite 1, the same location we used for the ARRL Field Day last June.The current plan is to operate one HF station. Scott (ND4L) has agreed to lend us his tent for the operating station, so now all we need are volunteers and equipment. We will set up Friday afternoon starting at 2 PM, complete any remaining setup Saturday morning, and begin operating at 2 PM. We will ...

November GARA Meeting: Annual Meeting and Elections!

This month, it is very important that all club members attend either in person or online as we will have our annual leadership election. This is our opportunity to help shape our club with our vote. Please plan to attend. Many thanks to Fred Lomax, W4US and Melanie Meeks, KQ4EKR for being our Nominating Committee this year. Here are the nominations from last month's meeting.  Please let us know if you are interested in running for a board position or would like to nominate someone else.  We can have multiple candidates for each position! Tentative Ballot (subject to change) FOR THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENTScott Toth, ND4L FOR THE OFFICE ...

HF Operating Event

Open to all hams! GARA will be hosting an HF operating event on Saturday, October 5 beginning at 8:00am. Our host, Melanie Meeks, KQ4EKR, has made her family farm available for our club to use for the day. There are restrooms and other facilities easily available on premises. This event will be somewhat informal in that you're encouraged to bring your own portable HF gear to setup and work alongside everyone else!  Even though we won't be at a park, we will all operate "POTA-style" with portable radios, antennas and power, but we will all use a common callsign.  Come anytime throughout the day, set up your radio and have some ...

August GARA Meeting: C4FM for Beginners

At the August meeting, KJ4JWC will give a presentation on Wires-X/C4FM continuing our discussions on alternative communications methods available to hams. Join us at Logan's Roadhouse at 6:30pm for dinner. The meeting will begin at 7:15. See you there! Download the presentation here

New Meeting Location, and D-star for Beginners

Our July meeting will have a new location! Due to unforeseen circumstances, we're not able to meet at Porterhouse Burgers anymore. After a long search, we discovered that Logan's Road House on Bridford Parkway has some great meeting rooms and are happy to host us. Meeting times will stay the same, but we'll try out our new location on Monday, July 22. Our meeting this month will focus on one of the earliest digital modes: D-star. We'll give an overview of what it is and how it works, what radios work with it and how you can be involved! Scott Toth, ND4L will use an excellent presentation by Roland Krantz, W9HPX (SK) to explain D-star in an ...

2024 ARRL Field Day and Picnic with GARA

Plan now to join the Greensboro Amateur Radio Association for our 2023 ARRL Field Day activities! Setup will commence Friday, June 21 starting at 2 PM at Hagan Stone park group campsite 1. We will be putting up antennas, setting up the solar cells and batteries, and will start setting up the radios. We will have our antenna building workshop on Saturday June 22 @ 2:00PM. Registration for this workshops is now closed. Field day operations will start at 2PM Saturday June 22 and end at 2PM Sunday June 23.  We will be operating two HF radio stations (Class 2A) and possibly a 6M station. Several of us will be camping out Friday ...

GARA Picnic Registration

Please use the form below to register and pay for your meal at the GARA Picnic on Saturday, June 22 at Hagan-Stone Park in Pleasant Garden. We will be having typical cookout fare like hamburgers, hotdogs, etc. Select the number of people in your party ($5 per guest) and you will be taken to PayPal for checkout. paypal.HostedButtons({ hostedButtonId: "YRNWKBTAXVLR2", }).render("#paypal-container-YRNWKBTAXVLR2")

Antenna Building Workshop Sign-Up

Use the form below to register for the workshop and indicate which antenna(s) you'd like to build. Link to Google Sign-Up Sheet

May GARA Meeting: Building Antennas

Anthony Luscre-K8ZT will join us virtually and do a presentation on antennas to tie in with the past classes and the antenna building project for Field Day. First licensed in 1981 as KA8NRC, Anthony has been a QRP operator from his very first QSO (no one told him Novices should not start with a 2-watt QRP rig). Changed callsign to K8ZT in June 2000 after updating to Extra Class License He is active in a variety of Amateur Radio activities, but his favorite activity is operating! Whether it is contesting, DXing or rag chewing, satellites, etc. CW Phone or Digital, the QRP contacts have added up and now top 115,000. First drawn to contesting by ...

March GARA Meeting: Software Defined Radio!

Join us Monday as Jesse, K4AX, presents onSoftware Defined Radio (SDR) PorterHouse Burgers6:15pm to eatMeeting at 7:15pm -John Crabtree, KJ4JWC