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Membership – Baltimore Amateur Radio Club Pro-rated Starts in November
With the BARC Mentoring program, we add to your success. We have the tools and gear to get you Hands-on, Through Video, and with Book Study.
Beginner Start HERE. Need Free Training – click on Technician.
Testing in our area is FREE. The VE team is awesome. https://larc-vec.org/home.php Here is the lookup by zip miles for test dates and times.
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W3FT 146.67 Repeater is undergoing maintenance.
Click the View Calendar link, bottom left, above to go to the Calendar/event page. The Calendar event page will display in a list or a month calendar format.
https://w3ft.com/events/month Month View
To load/import the BARC Calendar to your Google or Outlook (Apple uses ICS) – Go to the Calendar/event page. Bottom right: Select Subscribe to Calendar and pick an option.
TECHNICAL TALK:
MESHING Around? Antenna tests, GNSS modules, and how to use MQTT via Cell. Have a node, want to join W3FT as a channel?
Old leaking Capacitor. 67 cent part. Issue: Low volume output for the speaker. Kenwood TS450S AT. Spec is 470uF tested at 238uF. The MFG voltage was too low. Replacing with 25V https://w3ft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/kenwoodts450sAT_low-vol-repair.pdf
LAST 90 Days of Activity:
BARC now 57 MEMBERS
BRATS: repeater work is being accomplished – Multiple sites
Remote Rig Control – Free ICOM/Kenwood. Linux or Windows Client.
Meshtastic 915 MHz text-based P2P Mesh network to move a 200-character message.
GMRS – Scoping out the repeaters in Maryland.
Direction Finding – Fox Hunt
NEXT to do: Consolidated Maryland NETS list.
Disaster Prep updated with the basics
