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• Free Weekend Ham Radio License Prep Class Online

  FREE WEEKEND HAM RADIO CLASS Get your Technician class license in a weekend! (I truly don’t have anything better to do than teach you radio!) Feb. 4-5, 2023. FREE and...

  By Kent Petty Published January 16, 2023 Education, License Testing, VEC

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  For Sale – Icom HF/VHF/UHF Gear and Accessories – KL4TW

  AT-100 Pro II tuner: $200 Heil Pro 7 headset w iCom cable: $240 MFJ 40a switching power supply MFJ-4245MV: $190 MFJ Digital SWR/Watt Meter MFJ-849: $150 Rigrunner 4004 w/USB complete:...

  By Kent Petty Published January 11, 2023 Equipment, Swap & Shop

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  Anchorage ARC VEC Resumes In-Person License Exam Testing

  Written by: Kent Petty, KL5T, Chairman, Anchorage ARC VEC January 8, 2023 The Anchorage ARC VEC is resuming in-person license examination testing at the Radio Science and Operations Center (RSOC)...

  By Kent Petty Published January 8, 2023 License Testing, VEC

• 2023-2027 General Class Question Pool Posted

  By:  Kent Petty Date:  12/2/2023 The National Conference of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC) Question Pool Committee (QPC) has released the 2023-2027 General Class Question pool.  It is available on the...

  By Kent Petty Published December 2, 2022 License Testing, VEC

• 220 MHz Repeater – Giving us Fits

  By: Kent Petty, KL5T Date: 12/2/2022 Some of you know we’ve been having issues with getting our new 220 MHz repeater online at our Hillside South site. We thought we...

  By Kent Petty Published December 2, 2022 Equipment, Repeaters

• Lamp for Yaesu G-450/650 Rotator Controllers Available

  By: Pete Pritchard, KL7IS Date: 12/2/2022 The Yaesu G-450/650 series of rotator controllers has a proprietary lamp that’s tough to get to. If it burns out I found this little...

  By Kent Petty Published December 2, 2022 Equipment

• DeoxIT – Yes you CAN get a form of it shipped to Alaska

  By Pete Pritchard, KL7IS Date:  12/2/2022 When I’ve tried to buy and have shipped anything ‘good’, I always get the, “Not available in Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico…” So in...

  By Kent Petty Published December 2, 2022 Equipment, Tools and Gadgets

• Mini RSOC Activity Report – HF Systems Working Well

  November 17, 2022 A Station Report From our Station Manager, TJ Sheffield, KL7TS… I went to the RSOC to work on the Windows / microKeyer II sound card settings, but...

  By Kent Petty Published November 17, 2022 CW, DX, Interference, RSOC Operations

• Chairman of QPC to Speak at Dec 1 General Membership Meeting

  Mr. Roland (Rol) Anders, K3RA, will be our guest speaker at the upcoming Anchorage ARC general membership meeting on December 1, 2022, at 7 PM Alaska Time. Rol is a...

  By Kent Petty Published November 17, 2022 Events, FCC Actions, General Info, License Testing, VEC

• Be ready with the info….

  By:  Kent Petty, KL5T 9/13/2022 When bad things happen… So, we all want to be prepared for the day that bad things happen. In Alaska, and specifically, here in South...

  By Kent Petty Published September 13, 2022 ARES, EMCOMM, Public Service, Winlink