Montana's Ham Radio Forum

RAC Bulletin 2012-010E - Good News from WRC12 # A New Band at 600 metres. 2012-02-14 At its Plenary meeting held 14 February 2012 in Geneva the World Radiocommunication Conference approved a new secondary frequency allocation to the Amateur Radio Service at 472 to 479 kHz. Having passed First and Se...

Greetings ! Seems like no one has posted here recently, but that doesn't mean we're not ACTIVE. Here are a number of things going on with GFAARC. Follow the links below or check back here for more information as it becomes available. As Always, this is YOUR CLUB. If you would like to have us conside...

Follow this link for Dates, Times, Location, and other information about Amateur Radio License Exams in the Great Falls Area throughout 2011.
E-Mail any questions to n7nbb (at sign) arrl (dot) net
http://www.w7eca.org/ve%20tests.htm#CALENDAR

The National Committee of Volunteer Examiners has released the NEW GENERAL CLASS QUESTION POOL. It is available through many sources online, or directly from the NCVEC at: http://www.ncvec.org/page.php?id=358 This new question pool goes into effect 01 July 2011. This means that this new group of que...

Here is a LINK to the FIELD DAY RESULTS (SCORES) for ALL stations reporting from MONTANA GFAARC earned 2334 points overall, and if I read this listing ( in the link below) we came in 2nd place OVERALL for Montana. Thanks again to everyone who helped with set-up, operation, teardown, and any other ca...

Help to pass the word. The Volunteer Examiner Team has a NEW LOCATION to administer Amateur Radio License EXAMS. Starting November 2, 2010, EXAMS will be held at the Cascade County Disaster and Emergency Services Complex, in the classroom. The DES building is located at 521 1st Ave. NW. It's the for...

OK, all you PROCRASTINATORS ... This is your last chance ! ! On July 1st 2010 the new question pool for the Technician License Exam goes into effect. If you missed our normal June (8th) testing session, you will have ONE MORE opportunity to take the current (soon to be outdated) Technician License ...

Thought there was a more recent post than these about Field Day, but couldn't find it... but I wanted everyone to know that I posted our Field Day site location on the A.R.R. L.'s "Field Day Site LOCATOR" Cam ALSO::: Can we get some input from those wanting to participate in field day? con...

NO. FIRST, to be a "legal" Field Day Station. ALL radios, antennas, generators, etc etc HAVE to be within a 1000 ft diameter area. (I think that 's the distance) If we were to have TWO stations then only ONE of them could be counted as a W7EAC station (for field day purposes). (rules is r...

I would like to ALSO recommend we hold FIELD DAY 2009 at Wal-Mart. . . or some other public area here in town. The public awareness (even for those that don't physically stop in) is priceless. Also we can (and did) have more participation from those who couldn't justify the time or fuel to make the ...