Chelsea Amateur Radio Club

12/06/2023

Thanks to all the volunteers who helped with the 2023 Chelsea Light Parade! We couldn't have done this without you!!

09/18/2023

The Chelsea Amateur Radio club got a chance to meet Scott Yonally, N8SY, when he attended the Chelsea Amateur Radio Club meeting on Tuesday, September 12, 2023, and told us a little more about himself and why he is running for the Great Lakes Division Director position. Read on to learn more about him and his goals for the ARRL. Good luck Scott! 73

Prior to retirement, I served as a Senior Staff member and Quality Manager in the automotive and defense industry, making strategic decisions and leading the organization towards its goals.

I was responsible for managing a 25-person, three-shift department that was certified under ISO-9001/2000 and AS-9100 Aerospace Standard as well as various other military and ANSI specifications.

I was directly responsible for estimating the needs, and procurement of precision quality assurance equipment to comply with strict military and automotive requirements.

As a volunteer… I’ve held the positions of AEC, DEC, PIC, ASM, SM 7-years. Currently I am serving as your ARRL Vice Director and I also serve as Vice-Chairman of the Richland County Local Emergency Planning Committee here in Richland County.

I have been honored to receive the Joe Knight Distinguished Service Award from the ARRL Board of Directors in 2019 and I received the Allan Severson, AB8P Memorial Award (Ham of the year for Ohio) just this year.

I am an EMCOMM and Traffic Handler at heart. You’ll usually find me on an HF net somewhere passing a message or two -- I do like to rag chew a bit on the HF bands whenever I have the opportunity.

I serve on the Emergency Communications & Field Services Committee where I have led the charge to change the Club Commission Program to make it more lucrative and easier for the clubs and also led the charge to make all Affiliated / Special Service Club anniversary dates expire at the same time (December 31) making it much easier for clubs to remember when to renew.

I am a volunteer for the ARRL Foundation where I have interviewed and chosen winners for scholarships for the past 2 years.

I am also the Liaison to the Board of Directors for the Public Relations Committee. This committee is charged with many Public Relations duties including the nomination selections of the Bill Leonard, Professional Journalists Award and the Phil McGan, PIO award.

I am active as a VE for ARRL & LAUREL. I’m an Official Relay Station and an Official Emergency Station.

I created a weekly Ohio Section newsletter that still goes out all over the country, the Handbook Give Away Program and a One Question Questionnaire that is still going strong today.

I was honored last year to help train 22 new section managers and will be helping train this year’s class of 11 this coming weekend.

As Ohio Section Manager, I have had the privilege of working with numerous Zoning Boards and city councils to ensure that Ohio’s ham operators can take full advantage of the protections afforded to them by Ohio’s PRB-1 law.

Through my work, I have been able to help local governments understand the nuances of the law and ensure that Amateur Radio operators are not subject to overly restrictive local regulations.

I am currently working on getting some changes made concerning our Ohio Ham Plates and the awful way that we here in Ohio have to go through to get them renewed.

>> My plan for the first 100 days as Director

09/18/2023

September 12, 2023, Chelsea Amateur Radio Club meeting presentation.

Joe Burkhead KE8MKR, gave a presentation on Radio Orienteering aka Amateur Radio Direction Finding (ARDF) aka fox hunting. This is an “on foot” competition for transmitter hunting. “Fox Oring” is a variation of the sport of Amateur Radio Direction Finding and is a timed race in which individual competitors use a topographic map and a magnetic compass to navigate through diverse, wooded terrain while searching for radio transmitters. The term is derived from the use of the term fox hunting to describe recreational radio direction finding activity and an abbreviation of the word orienteering or “Foxoring”.

Joe competes on the USA Team and has been to the World competition as well. Joe also helps coordinate the national competition.

Upcoming ARDF Competitions –

October 7, 2023 10 am to 2 pm at Park Linden in Chelsea
October 7-13, 2024

If you would like to help volunteer, please contact Joe by emailing: [email protected] . All updates are on the ARDF page at https://www.facebook.com/2024USRadioO . Lots of things to do such as: putting up and taking down transmitters and equipment and start line and finish line crews for officiating, just to name a few!

Check it out!

05/26/2021

2021 Annual Chelsea Amateur Radio Club Swap Meet

Sunday, June 6th, from 8 am to 12 noon.

First Prize: ICOM IC-2300H VHF FM Transceiver. All hourly prize winning tickets are included in drawing.
Second & Third Prizes: Tytera Dual Band MD-UV380 Handheld Radio.

Check out our website at wd8iel.com for further information.

04/13/2021

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

Your CARC Board Members are:

Jim Grissom, KD8RFW - President
Paul Dye, (Working on It) - Vice-President
Margaret Goodrich, W8MAG - Treasurer
Michelle Dye, KD8GWX - Secretary

Hi there! We meet on the 2nd Tuesday of each month from 7:00 - 8:00 pm. At this time we are utilizing Zoom until we meet in person again.

Please feel free to join us on Zoom by using the link listed below:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83759616199...

Meeting ID: 837 5961 6199
Passcode: 680541

The CARC hosts social events for the club at the following times:

1st Saturday of the month at 1:30 pm at Over the Edge in Manchester
3rd Saturday of the month at 8:30 am at Stiver's in Chelsea.

Come join us to socialize with club members, those new to amateur radio and those who'd just like to rag chew with their fellow hams!

73!

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03/03/2021

Hello from Joe Burkhead, KE8MKR:

"Calling all fellow radio/ARDF enthusiasts! I hope you are all doing well despite the prevailing circumstances and apologize for going "radio silent" on you for far too long... it's been a hard year... but I am looking ahead optimistically for being able to soon pick up where we left off a *year* ago!

I will be going to an ARDF event in the Cincinnati area on March 13th, so I wanted to pass along the invite to anyone who may also be interested in attending.

It will be an outdoors 2m TX hunt / DF event on foot at French Park hosted by the OH-IN-KY ARDF group. Multiple TXs. Should be plenty of fun and a good test of your equipment and skills... especially for those of you like me who haven't fired up our equipment for *way* too long!

If anyone wants to also go, let me know and I will send the details and directions."

Please email [email protected] and we will forward your information to Joe!

73

02/13/2021

Chelsea Amateur Radio Club Tuesday Night Net 8:00 pm

145.450 Chelsea (PL 100)
146.980 Manchester (PL 100)

05/01/2020

Some of you may recognize a familiar face or 2...

04/29/2020

SR5W Repeater, operated by SP5KAB Club, Is going to need a new antenna. Club Repeater located on the outskirts of Warsaw Poland.

Materiał ukazujący siłę natury, która pozbawiła nas anteny przemiennika SR5W 10 miesięcy temu.

04/17/2020

Contesting University FREE in 2020 through Zoom!!! I've read that Ward Silver's (N0AX) presentation on "Grounding and Bonding" is worth the regular $85 price of admission. I'll link his 2017 version of that below.

Visit the post for more.

04/15/2020

Hope this post finds everyone home and healthy. Beginning today at 4:00pm EST, the Chelsea Amateur Radio Club will begin running a Daily Shut-in Roundtable on the 145.45 Chelsea Repeater. Modeled on the successful Shut-in Roundtables announced below. Hope you can make it!

This will be an informal sharing intended to last until the Governor's "Stay At Home" order is lifted. The NCS will be a new operator KE8NKZ (Lorenzo) with KD8MZM (Larry) as alternate. Hope you'll join us. 73

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02/12/2020

Great presentation by Joe Burkhead, KE8MKR on Amateur Radio Direction Finding!! Thank you Joe