News
N4G is a Success!
N4G, GARA's annual special event station commemorating the anniversary of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, was a resounding success this year. The success began with the organization of the event by David Macchiarolo, AJ4TF, who applied for the permits, found the equipment, lead setup, and spearheaded efforts to make the more than 1,130 contacts on both HF and VHF/D-star. That's an N4G record! A lot of GARA club members came out to support the special event station, making contacts on 80m, 40m, 20m and 15m, and in multiple modes including SSB, FM, D-star, CW, ...
2016 N4G is Here!
N4G, GARA's annual special event station commemorating the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in the American Revolutionary War, is ready for action. If you're not already involved, it's not too late. N4G organizers and volunteers will be at Tannenbaum Park at the corner of Battleground Avenue and New Garden Road starting at 1:00pm on Friday, March 11 to setup the station, and then again beginning at 9:00am on Saturday, March 12 and running continuously until the afternoon of Sunday, March 13. Come out at any time to help setup or to operate the station- rain or shine, ...
Watch the GARA February Meeting Live Here!
When we're ready, we'll start up our super Internet video machine and live stream the entire meeting in the player above. The stream should begin around 7:30pm EST tonight, February 22, about the same time we'll hear from our guest, Don Wilbanks AE5DW. Although we'd prefer to see you in person at Captain Bills, we'd be happy to see you online!
Don Wilbanks, AE5DW from Amateur Radio Newsline will join us via Skype!
Plan on joining GARA at Captain Bill's Seafood on Monday, February 22 for an exciting meeting with special guest Don Wilbanks, AE5DW of Amateur Radio Newsline and Ham Nation fame joining us via Skype! Don will give us an update about AR Newsline and will be available for questions and a chat. You won't want to miss this meeting. Find out location and time details here. We'll see you then!
Sunday Night Tech Forum from January 31, 2016 – What to do now that you have your license – Listen Now!
If you missed the Tech Forum on January 31, you can still benefit from all of the great advice that was given by both new and seasoned hams! There is tons of excellent information for those of you who have just earned your ticket in this installment. Click the player above to hear the entire forum. And as always, join us at 7:30pm on Sunday evenings on the 145.150 W4GSO repeater to ask questions and share knowledge yourself! You can also join via Echolink by joining node N5ODE.
Many thanks to Cameron Conover, AJ4TW, for providing the recording.
Watch the GARA January Meeting Live Here!
When we're ready, we'll start up our super Internet video machine and live stream the entire meeting in the player above. The stream should begin around 7:30pm EST tonight, January 25. Since this is our first shot at this, bear with us as we work through any technical problems that might come up. Although we'd prefer to see you in person at Captain Bills, we'd be happy to see you online!
Sunday Night Tech Forum from January 24, 2016 – Tech Exam Questions, and Ham Jargon, and More – Listen Now!
If you missed the Tech Forum on January 17, you can still benefit from all of the great information about the Technician License Exam questions related to FCC rules and additional discussion about ham lingo and jargon! There is tons of excellent information for aspiring hams in this installment. Click the player above to hear the entire forum. And as always, join us at 7:30pm on Sunday evenings on the 145.150 W4GSO repeater to ask questions and share knowledge yourself! You can also join via Echolink by joining node N5ODE.
Many thanks to Cameron Conover, AJ4TW, for ...
Letter from the President’s Shack: January 2016
Happy New Year, GARA! I feel honored to have been selected by my fellow members to serve as the president of this wonderful club. GARA has so much rich history in amateur radio in the Greensboro area and North Carolina, it is a wonderful thing to be a part of that. I believe we are uniquely positioned in the history of GARA to do some great things and really build on what those before us have done. Speaking of those before us, there are only a few members around who remember the beginning of GARA. GARA has been around for as long as I’ve been breathing ...
N4G Update
N4G-Radio-Equipment
From David, AJ4TF:
Permit application is in the hands of the National Park Service, but their new policy is that they won't issue the permit until we provide evidence that we have paid our liability insurance policy for 2016 (which runs from March 1st to March 1st. (someone needs to send me the paid receipt as soon as possible please!)
KE4MOW will not be able to provide his excellent ICOM HF rig this year, since he has it installed in his shack. So we will be looking for someone to loan a good HF rig (preferably one that can ...
North Carolina Dstar Net – Listen Now!
This is a recording from this weeks NC Dstar net that takes place every Tuesday night at 9:00 eastern on W4GSO and other repeaters and hotspots connected to reflector 54C. This week there were a few technical problems from various participants, more than usual. Instead of crackle and white noise or static like FM in digital modes you get audio artifacts commonly referred to by users as R2D2. (Might be time to switch to BB8!)
This recording was made through REF 054C on the SD card of an Icom ID-31 by Collins Conover, AF7PO. Enjoy!
