BRIARPATCH AMATEUR RADIO  CLUB

Briarpatch Amateur Radio Club of the Twin Counties

 W4BRC REPEATER 147.69/09

 

 

 

Welcome to the Briarpatch Amateur Radio Club web page.
 

 

 

 

The  BRIARPATCH AMATEUR RADIO CLUB (BARC) serves amateur radio operators (hams) in the Galax, Virginia area.  Club members live in southwest Virginia and northwest North Carolina. The club maintains the Briarpatch Mountain repeater, W4BRC/R, 147.69/09.   The club is active in several local events such as the March of Dimes Walkathon and MS Walk, Scout's Jamboree On The Air (JOTA), conducts a weekly net on Tuesdays at 8 pm local time on W4BRC/R , awards the Charles Litz - Dave Nicholson Memorial Scholarship and has an active Volunteer Examination Team.  If you have questions about the club, amateur exams or amateur radio in general please contact a club member or visit a regularly scheduled club meeting.  Anyone interested in amateur radio and guests are always welcome.  BARC is named after Briarpatch Mountain in Grayson County Virginia where the club was formed and where the club repeater is located.

 

 

 

 

 

 

**The 2012 BARC Service Net net control roster is on the Service Net page.

 

**2012 Net Roster available on the Service Net Page 

 

   Also BARC Net Preamble download

 

**2012 meeting schedule is now available below

 

**NEW BARC Committees:  Please use this link to access the list of new committees.  Please contact Brandy Puckett if you are interested in serving as a member of one or more of the committees.  NEW

 

**Club roster: see the Roster page:   2012 version coming soon

 

**Silent Key list is now on the Roster page

 

**Do not forget the BARC Service Net on Tuesdays.  See the net page.
**Check the Just4Fun page for a link to a "Ham Speak" site.  Find out where all of those abbreviations and funny numbers came from.

 

**Next VE test - July 12 - see right sidebar

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEE THE NEWS PAGE FOR:

 

 

 

**November 2011 Newsletter

 

**Contesting for fun and profit?

 

**Satellite tracking by N2YO

 

 

**To radial or not to radial, that is a tough question!
**What is your DECLINATION?  Check the link on the NEWS PAGE.

 

 

 

**Next club meeting is May 24

 

 

 

Click for 2012 Meeting schedule   

2012 Club Officers
President:  Glen Sage, W4GHS
Vice President:  Jeff Sexton, KI4TSK                                                                               Secretary:  Brandy Puckett, KI4CPJ
Treasurer:  Beverly Tipton, KI4JTV
Technical Chairman:  Junior Diamond, N4VL                                                                          

 

 

 

Public Information Officer:  Melanie Puckett, KD4PXJ                                                     

 

 

 

 Directors:  Junior Diamond, N4VL, James Blythe,W4RDX, Webmaster,  

 

 

 

                  Tom MacMullan, KI4ONE, VE Coordinator and Melanie Puckett, KD4PXJ

 

 

 

Please note: Most UNDERLINED text is a link and should open a new window.  This will save you time navigating the site.  Please send comments and content to w4rdx at yahoo dot com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last update:  May 22, 2012
This site is maintained by James Blythe, W4RDX for the Briarpatch Amateur Radio Club, Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VE Schedule for 2012

 July 12, October 11

All test sessions begin at 7 pm.  Walk-ins are welcome.  Please bring two forms of ID (one picture ID), the original and a copy of your current license and the original and a copy of any current CSCE if your license has not been updated since your last test.  You must also complete FCC form 605 (download a copy below).  This may be done at the beginning of the test session or you may download a copy below and bring the completed form to the test session.  Test sessions are held at the Twin County Regional Hospital in Galax, VA unless otherwise announced.  All FCC Amateur exams are available.  The VE TEAM will begin using Laurel VEC materials in 2012 and all tests will be FREE.   Check here for further details prior to a test date.  This is an all volunteer group. 

Please enter the hospital through the main (front) entrance (due to new hospital regulations) and you will be escorted to the testing room

 

Click here for details!!!!

Download Form 605  HERE