Anchorage Amateur Radio Club Anchorage, Alaska

 

The Anchorage Amateur Radio Club is the largest amateur radio organization in Alaska with over 340 members. Our club is dedicated to public service, emergency communications, and the advancement of amateur radio through education and technical excellence.

The AARC invites anyone with an interest in amateur radio or public service to join our club. Dues are $12.00 a year and include the monthly AARC Newsletter. You can join the club at any of our monthly meetings, or by calling the AARC at 345-0719 anytime.

Click HERE for ONLINE Membership Application and Renewal

KL7AA Club Station:

Yaesu MK-V FT-1000MP transceiver	10, 15 and 20 meters. 40 and 80 meters in near future
Cushcraft 3-element yagi	Modes: SSB phone, CW, Slow Scan TV.
ACOM A2000 1.5kw linear amp	Digital Modes: PSK, MFSK, RTTY, Olivia, Feld-Hell, Domino, Throb, JT65, etc.
MicroHAM MicroKeyer II PC interface	VOIP: Echolink 2m on schedule, IRLP, Skype
Ham Radio Deluxe, Digital Master 780, MultiPSK, WSJT.	Future modes: HF ALE, Winlink

QSL: Direct or Log of the World (LOTW)

The KL7AA station is available for training in HF operations. Learn from an experienced HF operator about propagation, voice and morse code modes as well as best practices and legal operations. The station is fully integrated with a PC and soundcard to operate in many digital modes. There are weekly contests to participate in even if just helping Hams all over the world gain points and multipliers to win awards.

The club station is quite capable and has great ears. Club operators have made many QSO's with all modes on all continents. Recent activities have seen SSTV QSO with New Zealand, hearing a Fallujah Iraq operator on PSK, a 15 meter contact to Peru during the CQ WW Phone contest. Common contacts are made with the lower 48 states and Caribbean, Canada, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, Russia and islands in the Pacific.