THE ARLINGTON BEACON

The Official Organ of the Arlington Amateur Radio Club

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President:	Jack Reed	WA4FXX
Vice President:	Dennis Bodson	W4PWF
Secretary:	Mike Callaham	NW3V
Treasurer:	Mike Ingles	KG4RKL
Activities Chairman:	Alan Bosch	KO4ALA
Editor:	Mike Callaham	NW3V

Meetings:	The third Tuesday of each month at 7:30 P.M., Arlington Chapter, American Red Cross, 4333 Arlington Blvd. (US 50), Arlington, VA. Nonmembers are invited to attend.
Net:	Tuesday (except meeting nights) at 7:30 P.M., 144.87/145.47 MHz FM
WWW:	http://www.w4wvp.org/ [en Espanol]
Information:	Jack Reed, wa4fxx@amsat.org (e-mail), (703) 685-7933 (phone).

THE NEXT MEETING OF THE AARC WILL BE ON THE THIRD TUESDAY OF THE MONTH

AARC provide communications at Red Cross shelter during Hurricane Isabel

AARC volunteers provide communications at Red Cross shelter during Hurricane Isabel. Photo: Jim Hastings, K9AUC

The latest issue of the club's newsletter, the Arlington Beacon, is online here. [en Espanol]

Jamborees on the Air

Amateur Radio station W4WVP will participate in Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) 2005 during the weekend of October 15-16. Leaders or Scouts of Cub Scout, Boy Scout, Venturer, Brownie Scout, or Girl Scout units wishing to participate are invited to contact the club information contact listed at the top of this page. Club facilities can accommodate Den- or Patrol-sized groups. Club operators (including Scouters and Radio Merit Badge Counselors) will also consider requests to discuss and demonstrate Amateur Radio at Scout meetings and camporees.

Den 1 (pictured below) of Pack 167 visited W4WVP for JOTA 2004. Our report on JOTA 2004 was in the October 2004 issue of the Arlington Beacon. Our report on JOTA 2002 is here.

Girl Scout JOTA/JOTI 2004 activity patch

ACPD Mobile Command Center Visits Red Cross

On April 20, 2004, the new Arlington County Police Department Mobile Command Center (MCC) visited the Arlington Chapter of the American Red Cross, so that Citizens Corps and ARES members could familiarize themselves with the equipment, which includes one each Icom IC-706 MkIIG and Kenwood D-700 transceivers.

Image: montage of six photos of Arlington County Police Department Mobile Command Center

ACPD Mobile Command Center, l-r: (1) conference room, showing wide-screen and smaller displays; (2) Sgt. Charlie Neal in conference room; (3) looking forward; (4) control heads for D-700 and IC-706; (5) outside view showing wide-screen display aft of aft door; (6) view of mast with camera. Photos and montage: Mike Callaham, NW3V

Affiliations

We are affiliated with

The American Radio Relay League (ARRL)
The Foundation for Amateur Radio (FAR)

QTH: Our Location

Tiger Map, courtesy of the Bureau of the Census
The building
Beam headings (zoom in)

Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES)

NoVa ARES Home Page
ARES Y2K Vigil

Constitution and By-Laws

The Constitution and the By-Laws of the Arlington Amateur Radio Club are right here.

Arlington County Net Preamble

Club Patch

Click here to view a scanned image of the club patch in GIF format (about 60KB). Click here to download a compressed .zip file (about 700KB) of the original scanned image of the club patch in Windows bitmap (.bmp) format (about 3.6MB). (Scan courtesy of Joe, KJ4S.)

Local Repeaters

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Silent Keys

2004-12-27 John Maher, WD4MIS/EI4AG-SK

Updated 2005-09-01 by Michael Callaham, NW3V