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2024 ARRL SSB Sweepstakes

The DVRA will participate in the ARRL SSB Sweepstakes during the weekend of 11/16 and 11/17 and W2ZQ is ready. 

The goal of this contest is to work as many US amateurs as possible in as many ARRL (and RAC/VE) sections as possible.  We will be running as Multi-operator,

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Annual Fall Cleaning – Saturday, November 2th

Our annual Fall cleanup event is scheduled for Saturday, November 2nd at the DVRA shack. We would like to finish painting our shack building as well as remove brush from our grounds and under our 2-meter tower guy wires. If you can help this year, please bring your gloves, hedge clippers and a pruning saw / clippers if you have them.

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Annual Fall Cleaning – Saturday, November 2th

Our annual Fall cleanup event is scheduled for Saturday, November 2nd at the DVRA shack. We would like to finish painting our shack building as well as remove brush from our grounds and under our 2-meter tower guy wires. If you can help this year, please bring your gloves, hedge clippers and a pruning saw / clippers if you have them.

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DVRA Mobile Fox Hunt – November 3, 2024

The Penultimate Hunt for 2024!

Time is running out for you to keep that New Year’s resolution to “do a fox hunt”. DVRA will host another fine Mobile Fox Hunting Session of the 2024 season. Join Huntmaster Glen, NK1N, for this event Sunday, November 3rd at 9:00am ET.

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Beginner’s Soldering Workshop to be held on Saturday, November 9 from 10 – 12pm

Beginner’s Soldering Workshop to be held on Saturday, November 9 from 10 – 12pm.  

We will have a brief overview of electronic components, equipment and safety to get you started with through hole soldering — no prior electronics knowledge or experience necessary! You will have an opportunity to assemble a mini project for hands-on experience with the modified Elenco Soldering Practice Kit SP-3B.

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The Martians are Coming – WOW

Greetings all! The DVRA will be marking the 86th anniversary of the Orson Welles broadcast of the War of the Worlds on October 30, 1938 with a special event station, W0W.

In the broadcast, Martian invaders first landed in Grovers Mill, NJ (in West Windsor township). The DVRA will be operating W0W on Sunday,

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ARRL EME Contest – November 16 -17th

We had a good start in the ARRL EME Contest the weekend of October 18-19. The final contest weekend will be November 16-17. At this half-way point, our totals are 94 QSOs and 85 multipliers (number of different four-character Maidenhead locators worked). In 2022 and 2023 we made 118 and 127 QSOs,

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DVRA IARU-Style Fox Hunt Report – 9/1/2024

Welcome Jerome, N2JOV, to our fox hunting group!

Congratulations Jean, AD2EK, on finding all the foxes!

Veterans Park in Hamilton has been our venue of choice for the IARU-Style on-foot fox hunts this year.  I wondered if anyone would show up on this rainy Labor Day Sunday.  Happily,

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DVRA IARU-Style Fox Hunt – September 1, 2024

It’s time to release the Foxes!

DVRA will host another of its famous IARU-Style Fox Hunting sessions.  IARU-Style is an on-foot fox hunt where multiple foxes are released into the woods for hunters to find – Think: orienteering with radios.    Participate individually or form a team.

Enhance your Labor Day weekend by joining Huntmaster Glen,

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HamClock DIY Workshop – September 7th, 2024

On Saturday morning, September 7th, at 10:00am, the Delaware Valley Radio Association will present a “HamClock DIY” workshop at the club shack.

HamClock is free software that displays a world map, gray line, propagation, and other info of interest to hams, all on one Monitor. You may have seen it on the large monitor at the W2ZQ shack.

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