DCARA  W3UER/R  Darby, PA

Calendar

• The DCARA events are held throughout the year and announced by the email Newsletter. 
  

• The DCARA schedules a Holiday Party in December.
  

• The DCARA participates in Field Day in conjunction with the Mobile Sixers ARC, the Delaware County Digital Users Group and the Marple-Newtown ARC at the Drexel Lodge, PA Route 3 (West Chester Pike) two miles west of PA Route 252.  The ARRL Field Day is always the last full weekend of June.
  
  Past Meetings
  
  

• Al K3ZMJ discussed his recent return trip to Germany.
  
  

• Dan N3IXQ spoke about preparing for an emergency and C.R. Phillips discussed the communication systems on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. 
  
  

• Joe N3BAM and Jon WA3KFT dicussed the joint DCARA-MNARC-Mobile Sixers Field Day in Newtown Square.
  
  

• Paul N3UD demonstrated the ICOM D-STAR digital voice and data radio system.
  
  

• Dennis K3DS discussed the QRP circuitry and demonstrated the RockMite 40M transceiver.
    

• Lloyd Roach discussed commercial radio broadcasting in the Delaware Valley 
  
  

• A DCARA meeting was held at the Delaware County EOC, Lima, PA. A discussion of Amateur Radio support of emergency services with the Delco ARES was presented.
  
  

• Ed Hare W1RFI, ARRL Headquarters Staff, discussed the concept of Broadband over Power Lines via a DVD (video) presentation.  This is the proposed high speed Internet technique that represents a challenge to amateur and public safety spectrum.
  
  

• Dennis K3DS demonstrated the earth-bound Mars Rover,  a semi-autonomous vehicle with a 2M packet digital data telemetry and control system and a 3/4M ATV transmitter.  The Mars Rover was an undergraduate senior design project in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Temple University in 2003-2004.  The Mars Rover was featured in an article in the November 2004 edition of QST.