Large Monthly Club Meetings

Ham Radio License Testing

On The Air

Sunset at a Ham Radio event

Many Good Eating events!

Operating from the Submarine! Museum Ship Weekend

BVARC Operating Events

Tracking Ham Radio Balloons

Operating Event

All night Club Event

Field Day Setup

Annual Hamfest

BVARC puts on a big hamfest every year

Ice Cream Social

Ham Radio Balloon Launch

Setting Up Antennas for an event

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Club Roster

Jan-Awards Banquet
Mar-Houston Hamfest
Jun-Museum Ships Weekend
Jun-Field Day
Aug-Ice Cream Social
Nov-Chili Supper - Elections

Club Event Photos
Who is BVARC

Monday Net Script
 Ragchew Net Script
BVARC By Laws
Contest Calendar
Ham Radio Videos

Ham Radio History (88 repeater)


Eating Schedule

Saturday Breakfast

IHOP:
7:00a.m., SW Freeway inbound service road, near Kirkwood.

Wednesday Lunch

LUNCH BUNCH: LUBY’S CAFETERIA
10:30a.m. to 12:00Noon +, South Post Oak Road, just south of the I-610 Loop in Meyer Park Shopping Center.

AMSAT QRP GROUP: PAPPAS BARBECUE
11:30a.m., SW corner Westheimer  at Gessner.

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January 2021 BVARC BEACON Newsletter 

BVARC Saturday In person Training
How to program your Handheld Radio

This Saturday BVARC will be sponsoring a monthly training class at Bayland Community Center, 6400 Bissonnet.
The class will be held from 9 am to 11 am and will be held at the Community Center Annex (check bulletin board for conformation). 
This is a monthly event sponsored by BVARC for training and education of the amateur radio community. 

This months training will be;
How to Program Your Handheld Radio
This is to show new hams to points on programming their handheld, whether analog or digital. This is not meant for the instructor to program your radio for you. 

You will need to bring the following:
The Handheld radio that you are needing to program
A charged battery
The programming cable
A laptop computer with Chirp programming software loaded on it. 
(download free on internet)

Since new hams as well as older ones sometimes have difficulty programming their radio, this class should help with those problems. 

Next months training is still open so if someone has something they would like help with, let Mark Janzer know. 

Greater Houston HamFest 2021 Cancelled:

With the current rise in COVID-19 infecons over the last few weeks,
the Board of Directors of Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club, the
sponsor of GHHF, have decided to cancel the 2021 event.
The demographics of the amateur radio community is extremely
vulnerable to the e/ects of COVID-19 and even if the event was held
in an outside venue can sll expose members of the amateur radio
community. With this in mind, the Board of Directors cannot in good
conscious hold an event that might expose anyone to the virus.
The event will be rescheduled for March 4 & 5, 2022 so mark your
calendars.
Board of Directors
Brazos Valley ARC

 

BVARC :

We had elections on Nov 12th

First time elections were held on-line.  It all ran smoothly, as we had a quorum and members voted via a "Zoom Poll" put together by Jeff.  The results are as follows:     
     VP -- Jimmy Vance -- NA5D
     Treasurer -- Dave Ely - N5EKW
     Corresponding Secretary -- Jeff Greer -- W5JEF (correction)
     Recording Secretary -- Mark McGrath -- N5VCM (correction) 
     2 Year At Large -- Scott Medbury -- KD5FBA
     1 Year At Large -- Sheree Horton -- KF5LMJ 
A sincere thank you to all of you for your future work in 2021.

 

BVARC :

Board of Directors Meetings
Saturday 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
(Meetings will be held via ZOOM unless notified otherwise)

1-9-2021          2-6-2021          3-6-2021          4-10-2021       5-8-2021
6-12-2021 7-10-2021        8-7-2021    9-11-2021        10-9-2021       
11-6-2021        12-4-2021

VE Testing
Saturday 10:30 AM to 1:00 PM – Bayland Community Center
Testing will be held in Person – Mask Required (unless notified otherwise)
Must contact Mark Janzer to Schedule

1-9-2021          2-6-2021          3-6-2021          4-10-2021        5-8-2021
6-12-2021 7-10-2021        8-7-2021          9-11-2021        10-9-2021   
11-6-2021        12-4-2021

General Meeting
Thursday 7:00 PM to 9:00 pm
(Meetings will be held via ZOOM unless notified otherwise)

               (new)

1-14-2021        2-11-2021        3-11-2021        4-15-2021        5-13-2021  
6-10-2021 7-8-2021          8-12-2021        9-9-2021          10-14-2021     
11-11-2021      12-9-2021

 New for 2021

In an attempt further amateur radio for hams and non-hams alike, BVARC now has a two-hour training time scheduled for anyone that would like to have classes, equipment builds or anything you can think of. If you would like to hold a session, contact Mark Janzer to schedule.

 BVARC Training and Education – Open to All Members and Non-Members
Saturday 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM Bayland Community Center Mask Required (unless notified otherwise)

Must contact Mark Janzer to Schedule

1-23-2021        2-20-2021        3-20-2021        4-24-2021        5-22-2021       
6-26-2021  7-24-2021       8-21-2021       9-25-2021       10-23-2021     
11-20-2021      12-18-2021

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Field Day 2017

Field Day 2017

Field Day 2017

See More Field Day photos under CLUB EVENT PHOTOS

Monday Night Net

146.94 8PM

Wednesday Night Net

Rag Chew Net
3910 KHz +/-3KHz Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m.

Club General Meetings

The club meets every month, usually on the second Thursday (7:30 PM) of the month, at the Sugar Land Imperial Park Recreation Center 234 Matladge Way, Sugarland TX 77478
Everyone Welcome

Club General Meetings

The club meets every month, usually on the second Thursday (7:30 PM) of the month, at the Sugar Land Imperial Park Recreation Center 234 Matladge Way, Sugarland TX 77478
Everyone Welcome

Business Meetings

The BVARC (Business Meetings) Board of Directors meetings will be held at Bayland Park 6400 Bissonnet in the Bayland Park Community Center in Southwest Houston.. Meetings will be at 9:00 AM until 10:30 AM on the Saturday before the second Thursday of each month.
All Members welcome

Club License Testing

Contact Mark Janzer K5MGJ@yahoo.com, to be added on to the list of available Volunteer Examiner's. Also contact him if you want to take the test, but walk-ins are welcome. He will inform you of what you need to bring.

The testing will be monthly, on the Saturday before the 2nd Thursday, at Bayland Park.

WebMaster

Eddie - NU5K
web@bvarc.org
713-569-8799

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