• IN CO L OR: The July Newsletter is now available.
  • The August general membership meeting will be on August 12, at 7:30 p.m. at the Eldridge Park Conference Center. This meeting will be the BVARC Annual Ice Cream Social. Former club presidents will be honored at the meeting.
    How many of BVARC’s past presidents can you name? Come on down to the Eldridge Park Conference Center and join the BVARC club presidents for Ice Cream at the annual BVARC Ice Cream Social. Let’s honor our past presiding officers and take some time out to eat and talk radio!
    Here is a link to a Google map with a balloon pointing to the actual building. You can (1) zoom in to see the details of reaching the building off Eldridge and (2) switch to map and zoom out to find directions to the entrance to the park. Click here
  • The BVARC August second Tuesday VEC exams will be on Tuesday, August 10. For information, click on the VE link in the column to the left.
  • The Monday Night PSNet has moved permanently from 145.47 to 146.94 (167.9).
The club meets every month, usually on the second Thursday(7:30 PM) of the month, at the Sugar Land Community Center. Also, BVARC members frequent the 146.94 (167.9) and the 145.47 (PL 123.0) repeaters and hold a Public Service Net every Monday at 8 PM on 146.94 (167.9. In addition, BVARC sponsors a HF net on Wednesday nights. It meets on 3910 +/- 3 khz. This net is allows each member to comment on current events and includes club announcements.

The Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club is a public service club serving Fort Bend County and Southwest Houston. The club was founded in 1978 and has been active in social events, license classes, administering amateur radio license tests. It provides support for city and county emergency management communication operations. Members provide support for many charitable events such as walks and bike rides. The club also promotes two nets and an annual swapfest.

 
This Week in Ham Radio
Today is : Thursday Jul 29, 2010
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EATS
 Saturday Breakfast  - 7:30AM 59 Diner SW Freeway near Kirkwood   
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 Saturday Breakfast - 7:30AM New York Coffee and Bagels 9720 Hillcroft   
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 BVARC Public Service NET - Monday Night PSN 8:00 PM 146.94   
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 Houston SHOT net - 8 PM local time - ten meters - 28.488MHz   
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 Lunch Bunch  - 10:30 AM Lubys Cafeteria‎ Meyerpark 9797 South Post Oak Rd just south of Loop 610   
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 Amsat / QRP Group  - 11:30 AM Pappas Bar-B-Q 9797 Westheimer Rd at Gessner   
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 BVARC RAGCHEW NET - Wednesday Night Ragchew Net 7:00 PM 3910 +/-3KHz   
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MEETING
 BVARC Board of Directors - Fuddruckers at the Fountains 7:00PM   
 
Real People to Contact:
Learning Things Ross Lawler, W5HFF, club "Elmer" w5hff@yahoo.com 281-342-3340
Club Things Rick Hiller, W5RH, club president  rhiller@sdicgm.com 832-474-3713
Newsletter Things John Chauvin, K5IZO, Editor k5izo@yahoo.com  
VE Testing Things John Moore, KK5NU, VE director jwm@hal-pc.org 713-481-4107
Web Things Eddie Runner, NU5K web@bvarc.org 713-569-8799
Everything Else Things Cameron Mitchell, K5CAM k5cam@arrl.net 281-565-4665
       
 

Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club
P.O. Box 2997, Sugar Land, TX 77487-2997
BVARC is an ARRL Special Services Club