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Welcome to the VB ARC website - Home of W4UG!
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The Virginia Beach ARC is a ARRL Special Service "ham radio"
club covering all aspects of the hobby. Visit the Public Service page to find all of the events that we support in the city. Visit
the Admin page to find all the details of the club from Bylaws to officers. The History page looks at the events from the past.
The membership page offers full details on joining VBARC and membership roster.
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Meetings ARE live at
St Andrews Methodist Church.
Future meetings will either be a hybird of live and online. Follow this page to know what is planned.
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News
Meetings: The
first Thursday night of each month starting at 7:30 PM at St Andrews
Methodist Church, 717 Tucson Ln, Virginia Beach
QRP SATURDAYS:
Meet on the 2nd Saturday of each month at Princess Anne Park, 9:00 AM
License Testing:
License testing events are held the Second Thursday of each month at the Virginia Beach Fire training
Center, 927 S. birdneck Rd, Va Beach 23451. You must preregister
with Ed
Williams KN4KL, VE Manager, if you are interested in one of these
testing sessions.
Public Service Notes:
The
next event is the Wicked 10K See the PS
page and contact either
Tom WS9B or Terry KA8TNF
Radiosport or contesting:
This is a popular way to make alot of contacts and increase your operating skills, work on WAS and
DXCC.
Click here to see all upcoming contests!
Local repeaters are controlled by
the Virginia
Beach Emergency Amateur Repeater Society or VBEARS. Repeaters are
available on 146.970, 146.895 and 444.950. Please check the VBEARS page
for full details of all repeaters in the region. If you are using the
repeaters and have problems please address your issues to the Manager of the
repeater via email here.
We also have a new repeater on 147.300+ managed
by the Heart Network. It is open to all hams when not used for
emergency events.
Key nets
on the 146.895 repeater are:
Va Beach ARES Net every
Tuesday Night at 8:00 PM
Hampton Roads Service
Net at 9:00 PM every night.
VADXCC Daily HF Health & Wellfare Net
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