The Northeast Louisiana Amateur Radio Club is pleased to announce that we are again sponsoring the W5L Louisiana Purchase Special Event. The on-the-air special event begins on 4/17/2021 @ 0000 UTC and ends on 4/24/2021 @ 2359 UTC. This year the event commemorates the 218th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase. NELARC invites all hams in…
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ARRL First Contact Award
This handsome certificate commemorates that special first on-the-air contact. It comes completed with the contact information that you provide in the form below and has a place for you to sign and date when presenting the award. This would be a wonderful surprise to send a ham when you are THEIR first contact. For more details,…
2020 W5L Special Event starts April 25th
For the 3rd consecutive year, the Northeast Louisiana Amateur Radio Clubis sponsoring the Louisiana Purchase Special Event. Any licensed ham inLouisiana may participate from any fixed, mobile, or portable station inLouisiana. Dates April 25, 2020 – May 3, 2020 TO PARTICIPATE, please review http://nelarc.org/2020-W5L/W5L.pdf 1. Registration is required. 2. Scheduling your operating slot is required. 3….
07 Jan 2019 Meeting Build Project: 2-meter RDF antenna
At the January 7th NELARC club meeting, we will be building 2-METER TAPE MEASURE BEAM OPTIMIZED FOR RADIO DIRECTION FINDING The design and build instructions are online at: http://theleggios.net/wb2hol/projects/rdf/tape_bm.htm If you would like to build one, please let Scott W5WZ know, and we will have the materials on hand. NELARC would appreciate a $10 donation…
2019 W5L Received QSL Cards Uploaded
The received QSL cards from the 2019 W5L Louisiana Purchase Special Event have been uploaded.
2018 W5L Received QSLs Uploaded
All the received QSLs for the 2018 W5L Louisiana Purchase Special Event have been uploaded.
State County Maps
One very handy operating aid when operating a state QSO party is a map showing the counties. The US Census Bureau has very nice maps, but the link to them has recently changed. The new URL is: www.census.gov/geographies/reference-maps/2000/geo/state-county-outline-2000.html
THE 3YØI DXPEDITION HAS BEGUN
Details at https://bouvetoya.org/
As children, we were all taught to share !
I was reading The ARRL Contest Update for January 23, 2019 and the Conversation by N0AX “Let’s Have Some More Exuberance” caught my attention as two points came into sharp focus. As the ARRL content is copyrighted, I can’t repost it here. But all hams interested in the survival of our hobby into the next…
The NCDXF International Beacon Project
The location of the international beacons (Image: NCDXF) How can you work out what parts of the world an HF band is open to and in only three minutes? The answer is to listen to the International Beacon Project beacons, run by the Northern California DX Foundation (NCDXF). The NCDXF, in cooperation with the International…