Field Day 2025: June 28-29
FD 2025 is just around the corner! What is the ARRL Field Day? … https://www.arrl.org/field-day Current Status (3/19): Richard Meyer, W8CNY, contacted the Fire Chief, Jerry Dougherty, to request permission…
Field Day Workshop Project: Rainbow Antenna Tuner
On the Saturday of our Field Day activity (June 28) at about 1pm, those interested will be able to participate in a kit-building activity right there in the Firehall conference…
NCS & Net Logger Schedule
The Net Schedule for 2025 is established for NCSs and net loggers out to May. Please contact George N2APB (n2apb at verizon.net) if you wish to be a part of…
Most Active Radio: MARCH
by Juan AC6ZM, TLARC President … The most recent MRA results are listed below. The goal is 100% accuracy. If you are not listed in the table or discover an…
HR1094
by Ben Poff, KN4VIF …. This YouTube video describes an important Bill going before Congress that basically precludes restrictions imposed by HOAs on Amateur Radio antennas. The video host also…
GROUP WORKSHOP PROJECTS
Choice Rankings from our previous in-person meetings. Check out the top 5 or 6 to see what might be a good workshop project to do as a group at the…
2025 Club Theme: Radio-Active!
TLARC President Juan Lopez AC6ZM presented his vision for 2025 of “Radio-Active” at the January meeting of about 25 members gathered at the firehall in Tellico Village. See his presentation…
Contest Calendar (Detailed, by WA7BNM)
This is the place to go to in order to find detail on almost every OPERATING EVENT throughout the year. Just click on the links to find the event’s RULES.
District 5 (East TN) Skywarn Map & Frequencies
District 5 (East TN) SKYWARN:146.940 (118.8) Sevierville (WB4GBI)As weather dictates Alternates:146.625 (118.8) Top of the World/Blount Co (WB4GBI) 146.850 (118.8) Sevierville (WB4GBI) 147.360 (No tone) Lafollette (KA4OAK) Below is a…
New Club Officers for 2025
Please welcome , and thank, the new TLARC Leadership team we have for this year! …
TLARC “TRADING POST”
Items for sale or trade can be posted here. Just email pictures, documents or other new items for posting to N2APB and we’ll add them! 2) Zenith Console BCB Receiver…
Comms assist at Madisonville Christmas Festival on the Square!
by Jeff N4POD … a wonderland adorned with twinkling lights, festive flavors, activities and more all wrapped with small-town charm. There was something for everyone! And when the sun went…
Field Day 2024: “An Affair to Remember”
Instead of having Field Day be a typical “race for the numbers” effort that only die-hard contesters enjoy, we made the decision early on to have this year’s Field Day…
Workshop #2: An “On-Air-Display”!
George N2APB and Cecil Clontz (a technology guru in TLARC) have been collaborating on another really cool project for our radio benches. It’s a colorful light that indicates when we…
Outdoor Club Social: Oct 1st at Tugaloo
On Tuesday Oct 1st, TLARC we had an OUTDOOR CLUB SOCIAL at the Tugaloo Beach Pavilion in Tellico Village! The venue was on Tugaloo Drive, just off Tellico Parkway (TN…
Workshop #1: EFHW Antenna (April)
Our EFHW Workshop went pretty well on April 13th! We all got our toroid transformers wound and the plastic enclosures successfully drilled before time ran out. See the attached photos.…
Digital Modes – Part 1: MMDVM Hotspots
(Excerpted, in part, from an article by Mark Haverstock, K8MSH) Amateur Radio always seems to have a strange affinity for acronyms. Here’s a new one to add to the alphabet…
APRIL Meeting Recap: It was a Social @ Lenoir City Park!!!
Our APRIL 17th meeting meeting was held at a pavilion at the Lenoir City Park with about 20 members in attendance. It was a cool and drizzly evening, yet we…
TLARC Field Nuts Resurface!
After being underground for several years somewhere in Loudon County, the TLARC Field Nuts have surfaced and again are radio active! Formed circa 2018 by a small band of renegade…
Last Year’s Field Day Memories!
The Tellico Lake Amateur Radio Club, in conjunction with Loudon County ARES and Monroe County ARES, held the 2023 Field Day operation at the EOC in Loudon, TN.
Congresswoman Lesko Reintroduces Bill to Replace Symbol Rate Limit with Bandwidth Limit
05/12/2023 Congresswoman Debbie Lesko (AZ-08) introduced The Amateur Radio Communications Improvement Act (H.R. 3241) on May 11, 2023, to require that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) eliminate the obsolete HF digital symbol…
ARRL Advocates for Radio Amateurs as FCC Proposes Changes to 60-Meter Band
04/28/2023 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is seeking comments about changing the secondary allocation available to radio amateurs on 60 meters. The FCC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)…
Skywarn Training Held in Monroe County
The Monroe County Amateur Radio Emergency Service is happy to report a good turnout to the Skywarn Training session presented by meteorologist and Senior Forecaster Jeremy Buckles, WX4JLB, from the…
POTA-Palooza 2022 – Report and Photos!
What a beautiful fall day for the 2022 POTA-PALOOZA, which was held at K-0034 Look Rock Picnic are up on Foothills Parkway just outside of Maryville, Tennessee. I was told…