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…
Weekly Radio Net … Format Explained!
Get ready for an exciting new year here in the TLARC weekly Radio Net on Wednesday evenings at 7pm. We’ve had a couple years of net protocol instruction with controlled…