Welcome to the Website of the Los Alamos Amateur Radio Club. We meet the second Friday of every month at CD-1, 4017 Arkansas St., Los Alamos, NM 87544. Members begin arriving at 7:00 PM. The meeting begins at 8:00 PM. The next meeting will be Friday, March 13, 2009.

Membership: LAARC dues are $20 per year made payable to Los Alamos Amateur Radio Club and may be mailed to Secretary/Treasurer LAARC, P.O. Box 787, Los Alamos, NM 87544. Be sure to include your Call Sign (if you have one), your name, and mailing address. Telephone numbers and email address are appreciated.

Club Nets: We sponsor two weekly nets. One is a Two Meter FM Net that meets on Sunday at 2000 local time on the W5PDO repeater at 146.88 MHz. The other is a Ten Meter USB Net that meets later on Sunday at 2100 local time on 28.440 MHz.

The Los Alamos Amateur Radio Club is proud to be an agency funded by the Northern New Mexico / Los Alamos United Way. Thank you very much!

New Mexico QSO Party

1700 UTC, Saturday, February 7 - 2359 UTC, Sunday, February 8, 2009

(10am MST Sat February 7 - 4:59pm MST Sun February 8, 2009)

A fantastic ham radio event has been revived that will provide a weekend of fun and excitement to every ham that participates. The Los Alamos Amateur Radio Club is pleased to sponsor the 2009 New Mexico QSO Party, an operating event designed for new and experienced hams alike accruing on the first weekend of February (Feb. 7-8), 2009.

The purpose of this HF and 6-meter event (both of which every ham has privileges to operate on) is to get on the airwaves and have a great time with hams from across New Mexico and the nation. Simply put, NM hams contact as many hams (inside and outside NM) as possible. Non-NM hams contact as many NM hams (only) as possible. Essentially, New Mexico hams will find themselves on the "other" side of the pileup, with stations across the country and perhaps world wanting to make contact with the Land of Enchantment for the duration of the event. And what good operating event can't be without awards?

Links

• LAARC Officers
• LAARC Members (to be updated in March 2009)
• LAARC NEWS Read about the new repeater and its autopatch.
• REPEATERS and DIGIPEATERS in Northern New Mexico
• Technician License Class (To be Determined) - Also, ARRL listing for New Mexico
• Upcoming VE Exams (Tuesday, January 13, 6:30 PM, Los Alamos) - Also, ARRL listing for New Mexico
• KM5P's Ham Exam Preparation Page
• AA9PW's Ham Exam Preparation Page
• Learn the Morse Code - No longer required but can be fun and useful - AC6V programs (General AC6V Ham Page), Advanced Morse Code Simulator - Morse Runner
• Upcoming Hamfests and Swapmeets ( Saturday, January 31, Winter Tailgate Swapfest, Albuquerque)
• BUY & SELL Ham Radio Equipment Locally - The New Mexico Swap Net
• Public Service & Software Page - Includes MIXW, SKYWARN, Net Manager program, Incident Command System Tutorial, ARESPACK, others
• Solar Conditions and Propagation pages: Solar Terrestrial Dispatch, DXLC, Spaceweather.com, NOAA, WM7D, W6ELProp, KN4LF, QSL.net, and the ARRL
• Call Sign Look Up via the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Amateur Radio Club (Updated Daily from the FCC Data Base)
• Need old radio manuals? Try the Boat Anchor Manual Archive - Information Here & Downloads (Mirror Site) Here.
• New Mexico PRB, It's not just a good idea, it's the law! - Click here for details
• See a smaller (200k) or larger (470k) map of the US ham population courtesy of HamCall.net.

Cerro Grande Fire

Here is one club member's chronicle of the amateur radio support for the Cerro Grande Fire in May, 2000. Bob Cowan, K5QIN, submitted this article to QST where it was edited and published as the lead of the Public Service column in the February 2001 QST (pp 96-97). This is the submitted version complete with pictures. Click here

Comments to Webmaster, Alden Oyer, AG5S
Last updated Sunday, February 22, 2009