There Will Be Testing At Rick’s House

Saturday May 17th 2025 @ 8am

More info on our Local Licensing Exams Page.

Announcement by KN6UNL

LDARC has assembled a CW team.

Marcos KN6UNL
Charlie WK3Y
Steve AI6ZW
Bruce WA6STA
Don N6DMP
Fernando KN6SOJ
Karen KN6MJS
Rick KN6RBP
Damon KI6HPV

This team is tasked with making it’s first contact in CW on Summer Field Day.
If you are interested in CW, contact Marcos KN6UNL for more information.

Announcement by KN6RBP

Our next after testing workshop will be on the PiStar WPSD dashboard
and steering a PiStar with a Yaesu HT.
I will also demonstrate DMR cross-mode and the settings associated with that.

Buy Summer Field Day Tickets

Summer Field Day Raffle 2025 Items (so far).

FTM-150RASP
Palomar Bullet EF 55″ Complete Kit.
XIEGU G90 HF RADIO w/ Network and cooling accessories. (Partial Donation from N6CG)
FT 70D Donated by N6DMP
Chameleon Antenna CHA SS25
PiStar Simplex Hotspot (donated by KE6JGM)
Duplex Hotspot w/color screen (donated by KM6JWS)
6 Palomar Mix31 Torr0id Prize is 2 with 3 winners.
4 13 turn HF Chokes w/ Palomar Torr0id.

Summer Field Day Raffle Tickets on sale Now!

Raffle Ticket Prices:

$ 5.00 = 1 Ticket
$20.00 = 5 Tickets
$40.00 = 12 Tickets
$50.00 = 15 Tickets
$100.00 = 35 Tickets

We have lots of really nice things in this Raffle for you to win. So please, Support our club and have a pretty good chance of winning something cool on a summer day. And since there’s no time like the present. Raffle Tickets can now be purchased in our spiffy new OnLine store.
That’s right, the same place you can buy club hats, t-shirts, Pins & coasters as well as club membership, now has Summer Field Day Raffle tickets available with all the same quantities and price breaks.

So if you haven’t already, check out the NEW LDARC Club Store.
And while you’re there, buy some raffle tickets.

Tickets are also available for our Spring Breakfast Fundraiser!

This years Fall Fundraiser will be at the Colonial Country Club on May, 24th.
Tickets are adults $10.00, children $5.00. Friends and family are also invited.
We’ll be serving from 10am to 11:30.

Buy them before the pancakes are hot!

Tonight’s Eagle Net!

10 meter Eagle Net, 8:00 PM (2000) to 9:00 PM (2100).

First week 10 meters 28.360mhz
2nd week 75 meters 3.900mhz
3rd and 4th week is 40 meters 7.238mhz.
5th week is for something different. SSB 6,12,17 meters or JS8Call any band.
It is our hope that our new frequencies will allow us to hear each other better as well as make out of area contacts more regularly. Unfortunately these new frequencies do require a General Class license or better. For this reason, we are keeping it on 10 meters the first Tuesday of each month.

This announcement is now linked near the top of this sites welcome page.
The 2 most recent announcements appear as a clickable link.
Clicking on them expands them right there.
You will also find pictures from our resent events with this announcement and on the club home page as well.

There’s always a lot going on at the Lee DeForest Amateur Radio Club!
Keep up with what’s happening, by frequently visiting our club website.
You’ll find all club announcements & newsletters, as well as LDARC,
meeting & event information.
K6LDF.com, where the ham is always fresh.