East River Amateur Radio Club

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The East River Amateur Radio Club, Inc., is located in Bluefield, West Virginia. The club's call sign is W8MOP. The ERARC was incorporated in 1960 and has an active membership of more than 100.

Meetings

Currently, the club meets monthly on the first Monday. Meetings are at 7:00 p.m. at the Bluefield "Ryan's" meeting Room, located on College Ave. in Bluefield, Virginia.  (Near Wal-Mart.)

Affiliations

ARRL LogoSERA Logo The East River Amateur Radio Club is affiliated with:

American Radio Relay League & SouthEastern Repeater Association

Supported Services

FM Voice Repeaters:
W8MOP 145.490 -600 (Click here to listen Live!)  "BR549"   (Kendecom w/ Remote Base)
W8MOP 444.450 +5.0 Transmits 103.5 Hz Tone (Kenwood)
W8MOP 147.060 -5.0 Windmill Gap
N8RIG 53.370 -1.0 6-Meter Machine (w/ Remote Base)
W8MOP 442.45 +5.0 (Kenwood w/ Remote Base + EchoLink)


Packet Nodes:

MERCWV -or- BLFDWV 145.69 Bluefield D.A.R.E.N. Node/Mailbox
W8MOP-5 144.39 Wide Area APRS Node

Club Minutes

Jan 2010 - Feb 2010 - Mar 2010 - Apr 2010 - May 2010 - June 2010

Archived

2001 Minutes Page - 2002 Minutes Page - 2003 Minutes Page

 2004 Minutes Page - 2005 Minutes Page - 2006 Minutes Page

2007 Minutes Page - 2008 Minutes Page - 2009 Minutes Page

Exams

ARRL amateur radio exams are regularly given on a quarterly basis (Feb. May Aug. Nov.) by the ERARC VE team which is headed by Gary Kadar, N8GK, of Bluefield, WV. Exams are on the second Saturday at 9:AM at the 911 Center in Green Valley, Shelter Road off of US Rt. 460, near the landfill and animal shelter.

Officers

Club Officers:

President: Lonnie Underwood, KI4EED ki4eed@comcast.net
Vice President: Cathleen Underwood, KG4CTK underwood24@comcast.net
Treasurer: Roger Stefancic, KC8LGR 5rs@sunddenlink.net
Secretary: George (Hooger) Fisher, W4OF w4of@hotmail.com

Club Media:
General Information: erarc@erarc.com
Web Master: Dave Lester, N8VFR dave@swiftnet.us

Useful & Interesting Links

Radio Related:

http://www.antennex.com

http://www.hamfind.com/

http://www.qrz.com/

http://www.arrl.org/

http://www.sera.org/

http://www.k1dwu.net/

http://www.arrl.org/news/bandthreat/

 http://www.amsat.org/

http://www.hamrad.com/

http://www.fordyce.org/scanning/

 http://www.echolink.org/ http://w4cul.com/

Others:

http://www.worldtime.com/

http://swiftnet.us/jeffersoncam/

 http://discussbluefield.com
http://bluefieldtoday.com    

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