RARS |
Raleigh Amateur Radio Society
RARs meets on Zoom, at a restaurant, at Ridge Road Baptist Church on the west side of downtown Raleigh just off i440 at Wade Avenue. The club holds four meetings a month. 1st Tuesday: Board Of Directors Zoom Call - See web page for details. 2nd Tuesday: Membership General Meeting 7:30pm at Ridge Rd Baptist Church. (7pm for some social time) 3rd Tuesday: Dinner 6:30pm social meal at CHOW pizza sports bar. Creedmore Rd in N. Raleigh 4th Tuesday: RARS Gathering. Unstructured social event -- Get-On-The-Air stations, antenna tune-up, show-and-tell. 7pm at Ridge Rd Baptist Church. The club has VE sessions every even month -- 6pm at the RARS Gathering. |
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NCPACKET -- North Carolina Packet is building a TARPN.
NCPACKET meets at Brixx Pizza in Brier Creek every few months. Meetings are called on the [email protected] email reflector and via the packet network. NCPACKET is building a fun TARPN packet network for chat, entirely on ham radio. TARPN is a group designing and supporting VHF/UHF packet radio networks. The idea is to be an off-the-grid text messaging system. The local contingent has about 35 stations active in a 70 mile wide packet radio network, spanning 7 counties. Check the web page (click on left) -- for youtube videos and email reflector. |
FCVET |
Five Counties Ham Radio Enthusiasts and Five Counties VE Team
"We are drawn together for our common interest in ham radio." Formed in 2016. They meet in and around Clayton NC and have associates from Goldsboro through Raleigh. Despite the name, ham enthusiasts from at least 6 counties partake in the affairs of this informal group. Click on the icon to see their web page. |
JARS |
Johnston county Amateur Radio Society
The monthly meeting is held at Cleveland Draft House in Clayton. The attendees start arriving around 6pm but you aren't late until 7pm. Check the JARS website for updates to this info. Often they have a program. |
DFMA |
Durham FM Association
DFMA general meetings are held at a BBQ restaurant on the west end of the city of Durham, near 147 x i85. Dining is not too expensive and is decent food, though entres tend to arrive asynchronously. The meeting starts sometimes while people are eating. Everybody always seem to order something though I don't know if that is required. One of the Officers of the club is responsible for finding programs and there usually is one, usually pretty interesting. |
| FCARC | Franklin County ARC
The club meets monthly, the club meets on the first Monday of each month at the Forks Cafeteria - 339 Brooks St, Wake Forest, NC 27587 - Come eat at 6pm with the members and the meeting starts at 7pm and generally runs through to around 8pm. After dinner the officers call the business meeting. This usually lasts about 15 minutes and then social time begins. See web page for directions.  |
| South Wake | The South Wake ARC holds meetings on the first Wednesday of each month, 7:00 pm, in Bldg 2 at Fuque Varina American Legion Post 116 - 6400 Johnson Pond Road - Fuquay Varina, NC 27526. |
CARC
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Cary Amateur Radio Club
The Cary Amateur Radio Club meets the fourth Thursday of the month. November and December meetings are different. See the web site for more information. |
OCRA |
The Orange County Radio Amateurs
OCRA meets at the County EOC at 7pm for regular meetings, and at Mike's studio for board meetings. The EOC room is usually open before meetings but it closes immediately after the organized portion of the meeting is done. When the meeting is called to order, a poll of every attendee is taken with each person giving their name and callsign. An interesting feature of the meetings is that if there is no program, the entire room is polled for what ham project the person worked on in the past month. This is an opportunity for show and tell. If there is a program, they are often interesting. |
PVRC
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Potomac Valley Radio Club
PVRC is a regional mid-Atlantic Amateur Radio club devoted to excellence in the competitive aspects of ham radio, particularly contesting. Click on the web page for more info. The East North Carolina chapter of the PVRC meets at 6pm, the first Thursday of the month, in northwest Raleigh at Manchester's 9 months of the year (sept thru may). Also meet at the RARS hamfest in April. Contact Nate N4YDU at his QRZ email address for local info:Nate N4YDU. |
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Swan Island DX Association
The Swan Island DX Association meets for dinner every third Wednesday of the month. Meets at 5:00 PM at O'Malley's Pub at 5228 Hollyridge Rd. Raleigh 27612. That is near Oak Park Shopping Center just off of Glenwood Ave. Membership is open to any amateur radio operator who enjoys chasing DX |
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Knightlites QRP Association
The Knightlites QRP Association is a very informal group of non-incorporated individuals who specialize in low power, home brew, CW, HF operation. They build projects, socialize, have operating parties, do contests, teach and learn CW, create and sell kits, and eat. They meet for dinner on the third Thursday of the month. This is the QRPigOut? Click left for link to their web page. CW net is on Sunday evenings at 9pm near 3.574Mhz. |
| Smith Chart | Smith Chart says they don't have regular meetings and membership is by nomination. See the web site. |
Tar-Heel Scanner Group |
The link to the left goes to their GROUPS.IO email reflector (group). TarHeelScanner group meets monthly for dinner, probably on a Monday in the middle of the month. Click on the link on the left and search for "meeting" to get details on the next meeting. Typical Meeting info: 6:30 PM to 09:00 PM IHOP -- 7304 GB Alford Hwy (Highway 55), Holly Springs, NC 27540 Please try to arrive by 6:30 if you are planning on having dinner so that we can place our food orders quickly as not to delay the start of the meeting.
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