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February Meeting: SOLDERING–WHAT IS YOUR GOAL?

The February 2023 Meeting of the Chelsea Amateur Radio Club At the February meeting of the Chelsea Amateur Radio Club, Wes Cardone (N8QM) will present information on soldering. How Good is Good? In amateur radio, you can often get away with rudimentary soldering practices. You may consider that as long as there seems to be bonding when you solder that… Read more »

Chelsea Amateurs Present to the Cub Scouts

On October 15 of 2022, the Chelsea Amateur Radio Club (CARC) gave a presentation to the Dexter Cub Scout Pack 477. The event started with a brief explanation by CARC President James Grissom (WD8RFW) of the fundamental concepts of amateur radio and how it serves the community. As part of Jim’s presentation, he explained how amateurs use phonetics to facilitate… Read more »

Chelsea ARC and Cub Scouts Pack 477

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The Chelsea Amateur Radio Club will be giving a ham radio presentation to the Dexter Cub Scouts, Pack 477, on Saturday, October 15th at Hudson Mills Metropark on North Territorial Rd near Huron River Drive.  At roughly 2 PM, we will explain ham radio to the Cubs and how they can get an Amateur Radio Operator’s license. Part of our presentation… Read more »

The 44th Annual Chelsea Amateur Radio Swap & Shop and Vintage Electronics Expo event was a huge success thanks to you!!! Click here to find out more!

The Chelse Amateur Radio Club is excited to announce this year’s event was one of our best ever! We partnered with the Vintage Electronics Expo (Michigan Antique Radio Club) for our Annual Swap & Shop!! We doubled our indoor vendor table spaces, our outdoor trunk sale spaces and got to meet more amateur radio operators than ever! We look forward… Read more »

Chelsea Amateur Radio Club (CARC) Meeting and CARC Breakfast/Lunch Social Gatherings

Hi there! The lunch and breakfast gatherings have been temporarily suspended at this time until the price of gas comes down. We look forward to seeing you all again soon!! Until then, please join us at our monthly club meeting on Zoom at the information listed below. We meet on the 2nd Tuesday of each month from 7:00 – 8:00… Read more »

First Breakfast of 2022

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We had another great club breakfast and presentation this past Saturday, Jan 15. The presentation at the meet-up was done by Wes N8QM and took away some of the mystery about using smith charts, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_chart. He explained how to quickly get some antenna and radio relevant resistance numbers. Easy to do with a Smith chart, once someone explains how it… Read more »

November Meeting and Presentation

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If you were unable to make the November meeting to pay next years dues ($20) please mail in your renewal. It is your continued participation and membership that keeps the club and our events going! At the November club meeting Wes Cardone N8QM explained how to setup a signal generator to calibrate the signal strength meter (S-Meter) of a radio…. Read more »