The Columbia Amateur Radio Club
Our CARC 2 meter net is every Sunday at 8:30 PM local on repeater 147.330.See our Area Nets page for more details.
Some club members go to California Dreaming on Assembly Street for EBWM; others prefer Jay’s Corner, across the street from the fairgrounds. Jay’s allows for tables being together making a better together dining experience.
The California Dreaming crew is certainly welcome and encouraged to come to Jay’s.
Columbia Amateur Radio Club monthly meetings are held on the first Monday of the month, 7 pm at the ETV building on George Rogers Blvd, next to the football stadium.1101 George Rogers Blvd, Columbia, SC 29201
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The South Carolina Statewide ARES HF Net provides another communications path in a time of emergency. While subject to the vagaries of HF propagation, it is often available when other systems are not. A training net is currently held weekly on Tuesdays at 6:00 PM local time on 3.990 MHz (+/-) LSB. All licensed hams with 75-meter operating privileges are invited to participate.We typically run Netlogger during the net to communicate frequency changes, add comments/notes, etc. You are welcome to follow along in Netlogger.Passing message trafficIn keeping with the role of this being a training net and to improve the emergency response skills of net participants, the HF net planning group is adding passing of message traffic to the content of the net.Ideally each week, < (View Full event Description Here: https://w4cae.com/event/sc-statewide-hf-ares-net/2022-12-06/)
Join us for breakfast! Every 3rd Saturday of the month, local friends and HAMS will meet for breakfast and fellowship. Meet with Friends, find an Elmer, ask questions, share your experiences, or discuss your next outing over breakfast.
TIME: 9:00 am
Where: Lizard’s Thicket Restaurant, 10170 Two Notch Rd, Columbia, SC 29229, USA
NEW VENUE ANNOUCEMENT!
HAMS AND EGGS WILL NOW BE HOSTED AT LZARDS THICKET NE IN PRIVATE ROOM.
https://www.lizardsthicket.com/food-menus/breakfast/
For more information contact Jim W4JLP @ 803-669-6135
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Contest Objective: Amateurs worldwide contact and exchange QSO information with other amateurs using any digital mode (excluding RTTY) that supports the 4-digit Grid Square exchange — attended operation only — on the 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10 and 6 meter bands (Technicians are limited per FCC Rules to the 10 and 6 meter bands). Any station may work any other station. Stations may only be worked once per band, regardless of mode. Automated operation is not permitted — each claimed contact must include contemporaneous direct initiation by the operator on both sides of the contact.
Dates: First full weekend of June (June 7-8, 2025).
Contest Period: Begins 1800 UTC Saturday, ends 2359 UTC Sunday,
Contest rules are now maintained as a single downloadable document.
Click Here for the complete ARRL International Digital Contest rules (PDF)
For contest information contact [email protected] or (860) 594-0232
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