July 2021 Wires-X linking has been stabilized, defaulting to room SOMN-NET 40861. This room provides excellent coverage of the southern Minnesota area. W0AMX provides a nice listing of currently active rooms which one can connect to by entering or selecting the node number in your radio. The repeater will return to SOMN-NET after 10 minutes…
The antenna and feedline have been upgraded on the 146.820 repeater and early tests seem to indicate its working much better! Please do your best to use it for day to day traffic this week and in the coming weeks, report any deficiencies to the technical committee members. There will still be a few more…
If you want to know the ins and outs of just about anything RF, I found rfwireless-world.com to be most helpful. Its fairly technical but if you want to know the advantages or disadvantages of a modulation type or need a quick RF calculation.. super cool!
This year’s RARC Picnic will be held outdoors at the KOA Campgrounds (click for map). Thanks so much to Roger and Barb for inviting us out, it will be good to see everyone in person again! This year due to COIVD restrictions please bring your own food, drink, and chair, there will be no formal…
We have an IRLP voice node made available by AB0BW. The node number is #7162 is on simplex 147.555 PL114.8
Echolink is available to Rochester and SE Minnesota via the W0STV Echolink node. Most often this node is connected to the 147.255 repeater. Our W0STV Echolink voice node is #420993
As field day approaches, we would like to gauge interest in some of the ideas we have had! Please fill out this quick survey to help us plan for our Field Day 2020 event: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5ZR5K38 Also watch the Field Day 2020 page for updates!
This month’s meeting will take place via Zoom at the usual time. Club members will be sent a link to the meeting. The Rochester Amateur Radio Club (RARC) monthly meeting is normally held at 6:30 p.m on the second Tuesday of every month, at the Rochester City Emergency Operations Center located in the lower level…
