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2021 ARRL Field Day Event
West Essex Amateur Radio Club’s 2021 ARRL Field Day Event. Thanks to all that showed up to make this event a memorable one. Special Thanks to all my Friends from the Montclair University Repeater Group! You guys are awesome. More pictures and videos to come. We had a great turnout of Club Members for this years Field Day. We were able to utilize the grounds at the Rockpoint Community Church, in North Haledon, NJ. Several of the Pastors from…
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2021 Field Day
Come Join Us!!! We at the West Essex Amateur Radio Club, will be having a Field Day Event at Rockpoint Community Church, 400 North Haledon Avenue, North Haledon, NJ 07508 starting at 2PM Saturday, June 26th, and continue through the night for a full 24 hours, until 2PM Sunday, June 27th. All are invited!! Come see us operate, learn more about how you can get involved, and even make contact with other operators both here in the US, Canada,…
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New Operator Considers HF Antenna Options
For someone that has no technical background in engineering or electronics, getting started in amateur radio during a global pandemic presents some unique challenges over and above that which would normally be faced by such an individual. This blog post will chronicle one man’s journey through the uncharted waters (for him) of getting started in amateur radio. As background, I spent my entire professional career in corporate finance. As such, I am far more comfortable discussing the capital asset…
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Neither Cold, Nor Snow, Nor Howling Winds!
That’s right! Neither Cold, Nor Snow, Nor Howling Winds, will keep these Hams from going out and testing their gear and making contact. The same held true for a couple of us WEARC Club Members. Lou Mercado – KD2TSC, Wayne Oshin – KD2UXU, and Metin Serdar Serbetci – KD2UAF. This past Saturday we packed our gear and went to Eagle Rock Reservation, in West Orange, NJ to test out our gear. KD2UXU has just upgraded to General Class, and…
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2021 Winter Field Day – The Rookie’s First
Winter Field Day 2021 was a new experience for me in my Ham Operators Journey. This was my first Contest that I ever participated in. Had no idea what to expect. Except, that I was going to have a Blast! While no Records were broken, Lessons were Learned. New Friendships were started. Old Friendships were Fortified. And the Hobby was well promoted to those that dropped by to see what it was that we were up to. Only had four hours to…
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Starting a New Life for the Clubs Donated IC-701
Long before I joined the club a couple of years ago, a club member, now a silent key, donated his IC-701. He was Harold K2IBM an active member who recently went silent key. Since we have been getting some new club members there is a need for a “loner HF station” so a new member who has not yet invested in a rig can get on the air. In the past these members would have used the Club Station,…
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How to Set-Up and Test Your Station
A beginners guide to practical testing, setting up your equipment and how to start at Homebrew. This is a blog of the first run of this presentation captured from a Skype Club Meeting held Wednesday January 27th, 2021. The recorded video and a downloadable set of slides are below. Part One – How to set-up and test your station • We review typical buy / make decisions for radio equipment • Go over the basic test equipment needed to…
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Ideas for Your First HF Station
WEARC will help you find the answers to these questions and more. This is not a sales pitch. This presentation will highlight the options available for setting up a station in your home or apartment. You can enjoy all of the fun of communicating hundreds, even thousands of miles with no wires. Join us and we will give you ideas to get your station up and running. First presented online by Mike Luongo K2NNN at a meeting through Skype…
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Sharing my antenna tuner
After a club.meeting some members asked for a demonstration of using an antenna tuner. Although there are a lot of YouTube videos and articles online I did not see an example like the one I was given as a young operator. Loading an incandescent light bulb Using a light bulb as a dummy load is a good way of seeing how tuning affects power. Fun as well. But note the bulb will still transmit so use your call sign…
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Covid Has Not Deterred VE Testing by WEARC
The West Essex Amateur Radio Club of Essex Fells, NJ, continues to conduct VE testing with the examinees remaining in their cars under a covered car port at a local office building in Fairfield, NJ.The club has been conducting the VE testing concurrently with the American Red Cross Amateur Radio Club so they could utilize the facility as well for their applicants taking the test. If an applicant passes the exam they came for, they are then given the…
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