The Reading Radio Club
Official Web Site
Home of W3BN and W3CCH
ARRL affiliated February 17, 1922
Located in
Reading, Berks County, PA.
We are a
special Services Club with interests in SSB, CW, ATV, RTTY, Satellite, PSK-31, DXing, Moonbounce, ISS Space
Station, MARS, ARES, RACES, Emergency Communications, QRP operation, Solar
Powered Communications, Field Day, Contesting, plus much more.
We operate
on many Authorized Amateur Radio frequencies as authorized by the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC). To become an Amateur Radio Operator, you need
to study and then successfully pass questions about frequencies, operating
procedures, etc. Contact your local radio club or use the following:� http://www.arrl.org� for more information about Amateur Radio.
It is more
than just communicating using advanced techniques. It is also about making friends
all over the world with others sharing a common interest in Amateur Radio. Did
you know that most communications currently used in the world have an amateur
radio operator involved in its creation and development?
No more Spark Gaps for our transmitters.
Current Amateur Radio equipment is powerful and fabricated to exacting quality standards.
Even powerful multiband 100 watt mobile transmitters as shown below are quite
compact and rugged and only require a nominal 12 volts in order to operate.
The Reading Radio Club holds its monthly general membership
meetings on the second Friday at 8 p.m. at the Berks County Agricultural Center
on County Welfare Road in Bern Township, north of Reading, PA.
An On-The-Air Net is held on the Fridays that we don�t have
an actual meeting, on the club repeater at 8 p.m. on the frequency of 146.910.
During our Friday net, the CTCSS tone of 131.8Hz is needed. After
the Amateur Radio News is broadcast, Net control will announce any new activities of interest
and then any birthdays followed by roll call from a list of check-ins made during the last ten weeks.
Feel free to listen in and then to join in at the end of roll
call when the net control operator asks for any new check-ins.
Email questions to [email protected]