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The Rochester Amateur Radio Club, Incorporated (RARC) is an ARRL affiliated club located in Rochester, Minnesota. The purpose of the radio club is to: advance general interest and knowledge of amateur radio, promote cooperation and exchange of information between members, conduct club programs, and to provide public service support for community activities. The club is a Minnesota non-profit corporation and has been granted 501(c)(3) tax exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service.

RARC operates and maintains: 1) two VHF repeaters 2) a UHF D-Star repeater, and 3) APRS digipeaters. The club meets at the second Tuesday of each month at time and place announced below.   Visitors are welcome to attend.

  
RARC Monthly Meeting - June 11, 2013

The next Rochester Amateur Radio Club (RARC) monthly meeting is at 6:30 p.m. on the above date, in Room HA-111, RCTC Heintz Center Building A, 1926 Collegeview Drive SE, in Rochester.

Robert KØRDA's March NIMS Presentation: NIMS_ICS_NRF.pdf

If you were unable to attend any previous RARC monthly meeting, you can find the RARC Meeting Minutes on the RARC Club Meetings page.
 
Contest News
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Contester’s corner. 

Spring has finally arrived in Minnesota. May has a good mix of contest events for the deserving. The CQ WPX CW contest is late in the month.This is one of my favorites. Check here for a complete list of May activities....   More»
June VHF Contest

 


The June 2013 ARRL VHF contest will be held from 1800 UTC Saturday June 8th to 0259 UTC Monday June 10. (that's 1pm CDT Saturday to 9:59pm CDT Sunday, local time). 


Complete rules can be found at www.arrl.org/june-vhf  .


January 2013 RARC VHF contest score to the right::
 AB0BW/R    2
AB0BW       26
K0RGR/R      8
K0RGR        13
K1KD          10
KB0KOA    12
KC0GND/R 33
KC0P/R     104
KC0P           16
N0HZO/R 104
N0HZO         4   
N0MGY       12
N0VUQ/R     9
W0BM        22
 KC0P

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New Monthy Informal Social Event

Family, guests, and visitors are welcome to attend!

Attendees
RARC Member Survey

There is a survey for you to take about the Club and what you want:  Member's Survey
RARC Mail Group
RARC now has a mailing list on Yahoo!. This is a great way to stay in contact with the club.

The Southeast Minnesota Digital Net


Southeast Minnesota Digital Net - Thursdays at 9 p.m. local time on the 147.255 (PL100) repeater. The net uses NBEMS protocol, FLDIGI, FLWRAP and FLMSG software to practice sending and receiving digital messages using the MT-63/2000 protocol, with long interleave and extended characters. The current version of FLDIGI should have the proper defaults for MT-63/2K. We take voice checkins for those who can't participate on MT-63.

NBEMS stands for 'Narrow Band Emergency Messaging System'. It is becoming a widely accepted standard for amateur emcomm digital communications. These tutorials show how to set up and use NBEMS: Narrow Band Emergency Messaging Software (NBEMS)

The Ten Meter Net in SE Minnesota on 28.325 SSB


Just got your Tech license? Or you've moved up to General. But, don't know the in's and out's of HF operations?. Then come on over to the Ten Meters every Tuesday night at 8 p.m. on 28.325 SSB. I'm sure the Hams would be more then happy to answer any of your questions. And even give you some free pointers on working DX as the Solar Cycle gears up. New General licensee? Try out that new rig on the open highways of HF. Talk local, learn International! because Ten Meters will be a super band the coming years. It meets every Tuesday -except not- the 2nd Tuesday when we have RARC club meetings. Net controls are rotated each week.  

Upcoming Events, Meetings, and Nets

Check the RARC Event Calendar and the Southeast Minnesota Event Calendar regularly for the latest information on upcoming events. Also check out the weekly activities on the RARC Weekly Nets and Meetings page.

See the District 1 ARES - Southeast Minnesota page for more information

Miscellaneous Items

Additional RARC news and information:

Last update: May 15, 2013
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 RARC Webmaster, Bob Hart, KC0GND