The Chelsea Amateur Radio Club was honored to work with the Chelsea Police Department and Department of Public Works in traffic management for the 2022 Chelsea Light Parade. See also here. Christmas Parade | Chelsea, AL (cityofchelsea.com)
QRZ.com is offering a promotion for a 2-meter handheld, programming software, and programming cable for under $60. This is a special program to get new hams started and is sponsored by QRZ.com and GigaParts. This is applicable for hams who recently obtained their amateur radio license. It is currently running until December 31 with over 2,000 units having gone out… Read more »
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 »
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 »
One our members of the Chelsea Amateur Radio Club witnessed a car accident that took place at the roundabout at Werkner Rd. and M-52 in Chelsea, Michigan. The member captured the event on his 4k dashcam and has uploaded an edited version of it to YouTube for authorities to view if they so choose. The silver car driver was trapped… Read 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 »
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 »