Repairs to ARA repeater, frequency 146.94, were completed the third week of May, 2021.
On May 20, 2021 the tower climber ascended the MPT tower to install a new, two meter antenna and hardline. This is wonderful news for the ARA, and the repair should bring the 94 repeater to within earshot of much more of the county.
Below is a summary an internal report that Dave Isiminger prepared and sent the ARA officers.
[Read More]We have had quite a few very relevant, well done and interesting presentations over the years – we hope to add all recent presentations, and where possible, those that happened in the not so recent past. Each presenter must give consent before it is published on W3CWC.ORG.
[Read More]The first order of business that we tackled (the first of its kind for a very long time) was to take roll, shortly followed by voting for club officers for the upcoming terms.
[Read More]Initially, we didn’t have a full slate of candidates; that is until a past president, Brian Umbrell (W3PDW), was nominated for and accepted the challenge to run for the office of President.
[Read More]The Antietam Radio Association’s bylaws mandate that we have an election each year for a new slate of officers – according to our current president, Butch (NI2W), the attempts to band together a nominating committee have not been as successful as hoped. He, as the president and having little unilateral authority, recently proposed the following in an email sent to the members of the Executive Board:
[Read More]The ARA site was purposely taken down a week or two ago because of the strong suspicion of malicious code, and to bring it back in a more secure, faster performing manner. In this case, it has taken us a little longer than we’d expected to bring everything back up. For that, we apologize.
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