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CVARC Field Day Barbeque Picnic

What: CVARC Field Day Barbeque Picnic
When: Field Day, Saturday, June 28, 12:00 noon - 2:00 (or so)
Where: CVARC Field Day site
Barre Town Recreational Fields
behind Barre Town Middle & Elementary School
46 Websterville Road
Barre, Vermont
Please contact:
- Josette Metayer Messer KB1EPT ()
- Tom Long KB1NGQ ()
- Tom Girardi WA1YNU ()
and let any or all of […]

June QFQ is available

CVARC’s QFQ Report for June, 2008, is now available for downloading from our
QFQ Report page.

The QFQ Report

The May, 2008, issue of The QFQ Report has been finished and is chock-full of CVARC news, events, committee meeting minutes, and other goodies. It’s downloadable from the links on our QFQ Report page.
If you have a slow internet connection, you’ll probably want to download the smaller, 800KB, version; if you have a faster connection, […]

W1BD back in full service

Allen Wilde N1IOE and Tom Girardi WA1YNU were able to get the repair truck up to the repeater site yesterday and repair CVARC’s W1BD repeater in Williamstown. Allen wrote:
The fault was just as thought, bad connection…. photos will show…. The photo with the small part shown, is the underside of the jumper, you will […]

W1BD Williamstown repeater status

The Repeater Committee of the Central Vermont Amateur Radio Club held an emergency meeting at 17:30 hrs. on April 17, 2008. Those present were: N1IOE, Chair; KB1EPT, President; WA1YNU, Treasurer; WA1LIE, Director and custodian of the W1BD call sign; and Repeater Committee members KB1MFQ and W1WRW.
The committee received a technical report and advisory notification from […]

Hams needed for Vermont City Marathon

From Mitch Stern W1SJ:
Wanted: A few good hams!
Despite the obvious play on words, there is a serious need for amateur radio communicators for the Vermont City Marathon (VCM) in May. The Marathon is the largest single amateur radio operating event in Vermont. In a typical event, some 45 amateur operators will provide communications support for […]

QFQs from 2002 – 2005 now available!

PDF versions of CVARC’s QFQ Report newsletter originally published between September, 2002, and November, 2005, have been created from the original Word documents and put on our QFQ Report page. Many thanks go to Allen Tinker W1AAT for providing the files.
Have a look at a slice of CVARC’s 21st-century history!

CVARC officers elected; theme for year is “Let’s Communicate!”

CVARC acting president Jo Messer KB1EPT got tonight’s annual meeting underway by announcing that this year’s theme is “Let’s Communicate!”
At the meeting, a quorum of the CVARC membership unanimously voted to accept the nominations committee’s proposed slate of candidates:
CVARC officers

Josette Messer KB1EPT, president
Tom Long KB1NGQ, vice-president
Ture Nelson KB1NBJ, secretary
Tom Girardi, WA1YNU, treasurer
Fred Messer WA1LIE, director

Erik […]

CVARC annual meeting on Saturday, April 5

“Happy hour” or “meet and greet” from 6:00 or 6:30 till 7:00. Dinner at 7:00. Annual meeting at about 7:45. All this downstairs at the Hilltop Restaurant, 241 Quarry Road, Barre. See this fantastic map!

April QFQ now available

Just in time for CVARC’s 2008 Annual Meeting, the official April edition of our QFQ Report can now be downloaded from the QFQ page. Tom writes:
My computer barely limped through putting this together, such as taking up to eight minutes just to open any file for cuts and pastes and sounding like the harddrive was […]