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DVRA awarded Grant from Amateur Radio Digital Communications

The Delaware Valley Radio Association (DVRA) is happy to announce that it has been awarded a grant from Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC), a private foundation that supports and promotes amateur radio. The grant will allow DVRA to install a large 15-ft. (4.57 meter) dish antenna at its W2ZQ station.

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DVRA Antenna Committee Event – Field Day Antenna Construction held at DVRA

The DVRA antenna committee held an antenna workshop and construction event for members on Saturday, May 6th at 12 Noon at the DVRA

During this event Greg Mauro K3EA (k3ea.dx@gmail.com) discussed the design and then led the building, tuning and testing of a 10/15m coupled-resonator dipole to supplement our field day antennas. 

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Dx-peditions Experiences

On Wednesday, April 12th 2023, the Delaware Valley Radio Association monthly meeting featured a presentation by Jim Millner, WB2REM titled “Dx-peditions Experiences”.

In person monthly meetings are held at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, 137 W Upper Ferry Rd, Ewing Township, NJ 08628 (Driving Directions).

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DVRA Annual QRP and Mobile Operating Day, and Swap Fest, held on April 22nd

The Delaware Valley Radio Association hosted the 4th annual QRP operating day on the grounds of the club station, W2ZQ on April 22nd from 10am to 2pm.  This event was opened to all local amateurs.  As in the past, we also held a Swap Fest.  ADDITIONALLY, we included Mobile operating to be part of this year’s event.

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Another Successful Fox Hunt/Antenna Workshop

DVRA conducted a Fox Hunt Training / Antenna Workshop / Mini-Fox Hunt session the morning of Saturday, March 25th.  Fifteen were in attendance for NK1N’s Introduction to Fox Hunting aka Amateur Radio Direction Finding.  

Following the presentation, many participants started assembling their Three-Element Tape Measure Yagi Antennas while others,

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