Our club call sign is W3HZW and we also publish a monthly club newsletter called Short Circuits which is published here on our website, and emailed to our members each month.

Upcoming Events

Each month we will publish the upcoming events at the club, or events within vacinity of Delaware.

The KCARC Newsletter is available each month for download. Click the "newsletter" tab at the top of the page or click here for the January 2010 Issue

The KCARC - ARES NET operates on the club's 146.970 repeater at 0900 hours each Saturday morning. The purpose of the test is to test the repeater and our operating practice. All amateur operators with a valid FCC call sign is invited to participate. You do not have to be an ARES or club member to check into the NET. You may not be interested in participating in Em Comm, so just check in to test your equipment. It only takes a minute our of your day, and it will give us some idea of how well we cover Kent County and the rest of our area. The ARES group meets the last Monday of the month at the Kent County EOC, at 1900 hours.

Field Day 2010, June 25th-June 27th
June 25, 2010 12:00 PM Set-Up starts at the C & R Center in Felton.
June 26, 2010 2:00 – 5:00 pm Delaware State Official, the Press and Public invited to learn and see what Amateur Radio is all about. June 27, 2010 12:00 PM Breakdown starts.

Field Day, held the fourth full weekend every June, is the ARRL flagship operating event -- an opportunity for hams, and those who would like to be, to get together and communicate with other radio amateurs all over the world or possibility the International Space Station. Field Day encourages the use of radio equipment outside of permanent buildings and using electricity other than conventional means. Field Day has several purposes    - Emergency preparedness     - Recruitment and training of new radio amateurs    - Displaying ham radio to the general public Unlike other contests, Field Day is rarely a single-man operation. In fact, Field Day is frequently used to highlight to the public, the ham radio in an emergency situation. Technologies, to be displayed including Single Sideband Voice, Morse Code (CW), Amateur Digital Radio (RTTY, PSK31) Amateur TV, as well as Amateur Radio Satellite communications. The goals of ARRL Field Day is to work, or contact as many stations as possible throughout the 24-hour duration of Field Day and have Fun doing so.

For those who have never talked over ham radio or the newly licensed hams, we have the G.O.T.A Station (Get on the Air).  This station allows unlicensed or inactive people to get on the air and give ham radio a try. So, come out and see what all the fun and fuss about amateur radio and Field Day are all about, Saturday June 26th between 12-5 pm at the Ralph D Kellam C & R Center in Petersburg. Just follow the signs from Rte 13. You don't have to be a ham radio operator to participate! Stop by our Welcome Area or any of the other stations and see what amateur radio has to offer.

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