The Boulder Amateur Radio Club (BARC) is in it's 55th year of operation and is still in a growth mode, currently boasting close to 200 members. One of the reasons we are growing is because we have invested in our own future. BARC has a youth amateur radio auxiliary club called BARC Junior, a 501(c)3 organization, for children from ages 6 to 18. This youth program meets weekly eleven months per year and through the efforts of the Elmers involved has licensed over 180 new young hams in the past 16 years of its existence. BARC Juniors are known worldwide and their young representatives annually appear at the Dayton Youth Forum. BARC Juniors is recognized as one of the largest and most successful young ham programs in the nation! As seen in QSTSeptember 1997, page 49) and 73 Magazine (also September 1997, page 62). Donations to BARC Jr. may be tax deductible.
                    Read these associated articles on the BARC Jrs:  
   
ARRL BARC Jrs. Article    
Elmers: A Guiding Hand Features
H. E. "Rip" Van Winkle, NVØM    
An Amazing Decade: Where are they now?  
Wireless Institute of Australia Youth Article
BARC Junior 2008 Field Day
The BARC Juniors again held their Field Day at the Valmont Community Church grounds operating as ACØGW and every year it gets better and better. Great equipment, great BARC Jr. operators, fantastic BARC Jr. Elmers  and excellent food and accomodations made this a successful and fun-filled activity for all involved.
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ACØGW 2008 FIELD  DAY RESULTS
* The BARC Jrs. Operating as ACØGW with 2470 points finished 704th out of the 2409 total stations in the US and Canada participating in ALL classes overall.
 
 * ACØGW finished 171st out of the 442 stations in the 2A Category.
 
* ACØGW finished 26th out of the 98 stations in ALL classes in the Rocky Mountain Division.
 
* ACØGW finished 10th out of the 22 stations in the 2A class of the Rocky Mountain Section.
* ACØGW finished 13th out of the 46 stations in ALL classes in Colorado.
 
* ACØGW finished 6th out of the 10 stations in the 2A class in Colorado.
BARC Junior Weekly Net  
The Barc Jrs. run a Weekly Net. Join them on the BARC
 2-meter Repeater, 146.700(-) MHz
every Sunday at 7:00 p.m. local time.
Amber Alert Monitor