On February 27, 2021, ARRL VEs and volunteers held a VE session at the Warrenton-Fauquier Airport in Midland, VA sponsored by FARA. Multiple clubs participated in conducting the session: Fauquier Amateur Radio Association (FARA), Stafford Amateur Radio Association (SARA), Rappahannock Valley Amateur Radio Club (RVARC), and Catastrophic Amateur Tactical Squad (KC4TS). The test resulted in …
Gil, KM4OZH, participated as a limited rover in the ARRL January VHF contest with his rolling Mercedes-Benz antenna farm. He was able to activate eight different grids, admitting he was “Driving too much and operating too little”. “Traffic was not bad and neither was the weather”. He was scared off by snow in the Pennsylvania …
When it comes to Amateur Radio, things that I think I’m building or installing for temporary use sometimes end up becoming a permanent fixture of my station. What was intended as a “kludge” gets used longer than it should have. This was the case for the rope-and-pulley system that supported my first HF antenna, an …
Thanks to Katie and David Gilliam, K4TER and N7RCE, the FARA held its first VE Session in many years. The club has been wanting to resume VE sessions for a while and with the pandemic restricting the number of VE sessions, the desire was even greater. Katie and David who had just joined our club …
ARRL Field Day 2020 was certainly different that any previous Field Day event. Because of the pandemic and social distancing (a phrase that we all are sick of hearing) the ARRL temporarily change the rules to allow club scoring from individual participating stations. We as a club decided near the end of May that we …
On a chilly February day, FARA members conducted another fun Fox Hunt. The exercise took place the afternoon of February 29th, 2020. This time the Fox Den was led by Bob, KN4SPL along with Garth, K4BOX, and Mike, KF4TEK making up the rest of this iteration of the Fox Den. The hunters gathered in a …
It has been 28 years since the last time leap day occurred on a Saturday, but it appears to have inspired members of the club to socialize. A total of 33 people attended this month’s club breakfast at The Bistro on the Hill at Fauquier Hospital. From founding members to the newly elected and prospective …
