September 20 2025 LARG Meeting

Thank you to all of today’s presenters for a very informative meeting. The talks on Virginia Defense Force (VDF), the HT Exercise held earlier this month, and planning for next month’s Simulated Emergency Test (SET), are available on the club’s presentation page, https://k4lrg.org/information/presentations/

We also discussed proposed Federal legislation on HOA restrictions on amateur radio antennas, upcoming events, changes to the Monday night 220 net (new repeater), and more! See you next month (October 18). 73 de Steve KS1G LARG VP

July 2025 Club Meeting

Henry, K2BFY gave us a bit of the history of FM, the difference between wide and narrow FM, explained the ARRL and local TMARC band plans and frequency coordination, and gave us information on local repeaters including those where we hold weekly LARG nets. K2BFY’s presentation and a video of his talk are posted to the club website.

73 Steve KS1G LARG Vice President

January 2025 LARG Meeting Presentations

Presentations and videos of the presentations at the January meeting, on the ARISS contact in December and building a Portable Digipeater for public service events, have been posted to the LARG website. Look at the Presentations page from the k4lrg.org home page.

Our February meeting will be on Saturday, February 15, at 8:30 AM EST. If you have a topic you like to learn more about, or better, give a presentation about, please let us know!

73 Steve KS1G LARG VP

November Club Meeting

LARG’s November meeting was held earlier today (November 16, 2024). John, W0MPM, gave a talk and live demonstration of remote operating using his Flex Radio. A link to video of the presentation has been posted to the Presentations page https://k4lrg.org/information/presentations/.

We also heard about HCA’s upcoming ARISS contact, club elections in January, and more.

73 Steve KS1G LARG VP

October LARG Meeting Presentations and Videos

Copies of the presentations and videos from today’s LARG meeting have been posted!

N4RAF, Aircraft Tracking with ADSB (Presentation) (Video)

KM4GC, October 2024 Simulated Emergency Test (SET) Observations & Lessons Learned (Presentation) (Video)

Looking forward to next month & into 2025, we will have presentations on remote operating with a Flex Radio and iPad (November), tinyVNA (January), and VA QSO Party Scoring (March). Have something you’d like to learn about, or want to share with your fellow club members? Drop me (KS1G) a line and we’ll get you on the schedule for a future club meeting.

73’s Steve KS1G