Resources
The club has many resources available to help educate and support its members. Some are people willing to help other people (Elmers), and other resources are information and training about various Ham Radio topics.
Elmers
The Club provides a voluntary list of local Amateur Radio operators who have a willingness to assist new ham radio enthusiasts in learning more about the hobby and help when questions/difficulties arise. You might have heard the term in the ham radio vernacular calling this mentoring of new ham operator “Elmering”, and those people who assist the new hams being called “Elmers”. This is simply “ham-speak” for mentoring.
Contest Calendar
The Contest Calendar shows contests happening in the next month, and links to contest for the nest year.
Antennas
The page on antennas has articles on how antennas work, building antennas and antennas for different uses.
Transceivers
Information about transceivers and radios
Parks on the Air
Parks on the Air is a very popular program where “activators” go to parks and make contacts outside the parks with “hunters”.
CW
CW, or Continuous Wave, is the method of radio communication using an on-off-keyed carrier wave, while Morse Code is the alphabet of dots and dashes used to represent letters and numbers within that CW transmission.CW is experiencing a resurgence – join the wave and enjoy CW!
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DARC Information
DARC has monthly educational meetings, test sessions, mentors, repeaters and public outreach events.
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Test Sessions
DARC offers ham radio license test sessions in St George monthly and in Hurricane every other month.