Williamsburg Area Amateur Radio Club
Meetings on 2nd Tuesday, 7PM at James City-Bruton Fire Station in Toano
The WAARC VE team administered exams today for four of our Technician course students and they all passed with flying colors! Now the hard part, waiting for their shiny new call signs to show up in the FCC database. As …
VE Session May 9 produced four new licenses from Tech class Read more »
Bill Canedy KM4DQM and daughter Allison KM4OCE from Fort Lauderdale Florida joined the Wednesday lunch group at Anna’s Brick Oven Restaurant on March 27th. Bill and Allison took the opportunity to meet and speak with folks on the KB4ZIN 146.76 repeater …
The club’s newly founded “YLs and Friends Net” members gathered at the Tuscany Restaurant recently for their first “Meet and Greet” so YLs and OMs could come together and meet each other in person. Joyce Carpenter KX4MK acts as net …
WAARC YLs and Friends Net Members have their first “Meet and Greet” Read more »
Williamsburg Area Amateur Radio Club president Dino Papas KL0S presents Williamsburg Regional Library Collection Development Librarian Neil Hollands with the club’s donation of 13 ARRL reference books at the club’s February meeting. The comprehensive book set is useful across the …
ARRL Reference books donated to library by KL0S and KL0SS Read more »
Jaylene KN4KXK, a graduate of both our Technician and General Class courses in 2018, attended the Richmond Frostfest as her very first hamfest, and ended up winning the grand prize drawing. She received a huge “Frostfest Bucks” award and turned …
Kerry NH2A recently decided to adopt and restore an orphan boatanchor Hallicrafters SX-99 all-band HF receiver. This kind of rig was a standard part of a receiver-transmitter pair that hams used to use back in the day. He replaced the …
Forty five members and spouses of the Williamsburg Area Amateur Radio Club (WAARC) gathered for their Annual Dinner on Saturday January 26th at Anna’s Brick Oven Restaurant where a delicious buffet dinner was enjoyed by all. One highlight of the …
Sal Liguria, who owned several local restaurants and whose daughter AnnaLisa and son Sal now own Anna’s Brick Oven Restaurant, recently greeted the Wednesday NR4C lunch crowd to pass along his holiday greetings. Sal is shown here with WAARC Vice President …
The Original Sal Visits the WAARC Wednesday Lunch Group Read more »
The January WAARC “Hour of Power” was provided by Chuck, AI4WU, who demonstrated the construction of an OCF (off center feed) Dipole antenna. Chuck and Bill (NR4C) are working up plans to help other members construct these antennas at a …
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