Grumman Amateur Radio Club

Grumman Amateur Radio Club
WA2LQO

May 15 meeting is cancelled! See you on June 19th.

Next VE session on May 14th, at Briarcliff College. Room is "Long Beach 5"

The 146.745 and 145.33 Repeaters are ON THE AIR.

GARC 2012 Holiday Dinner.

Read the Club Newsletter.

GARC participated in the International Lighthouse Weekend Aug 20, 2005, from the Nantucket Lightship in Oyster Bay.

Operation from the original radio room.

Some Pictures from our 2004 operation.

Read the Nantucket's history.

Blue Ball Items

Plane News article from July 1983. Putting the Blue Ball on Plant 5. 6/03.

Take a Blue Ball Photo Tour. 8/02.

Download a Video on Blue Ball History. It is a 6.6 Meg file, and uses Windows Media Player. 8/02.

Newsday Article on the Ball. 8/24/01.

Read news about the new Blue Ball. (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) 12/01.

The Bethpage Repeater is on the air.

Activities

Club Meetings. GARC holds its monthly meeting in Farmingdale, NY, at the Ellsworth Allen Park on the third Wednesday of each month. Starting time is 5:30 PM, and refreshments are served. After a short business discussion, the featured speaker is presented. Meetings usually conclude by 7 PM.
Volunteer Exams. The V.E. sessions are held at Briarcliff College at 5 PM on the second Tuesday of every month.
Field Day. GARC has operated in every ARRL Field Day since this activity was introduced in 1959. Currently, they are held on a site on Long Island, NY. This occurs on the 4th weekend in June.
Informal get-togethers. Club members meet for lunch in Plant 14 Wednesdays. After a quick meal, they go to the Club Trailer and operate the Club station, contacting Retirees and friends all over the country on the weekly Grumman net.
Nets:


 Twenty Meters: 14.262  at 12:00 PM EST Wednesdays. *suspended
 Forty Meters:   7.289  at  7:30 AM EST Sundays.
 Two Meters:    146.745 at  8:30 PM EST Thursdays.  *Simplex
                145.33  at  8:45 PM EST Thursdays. 
                145.33  at  9:00 PM EST Mondays (ARES/RACES).

Club Meetings:

All meetings are held in Farmingdale: Ellsworth Allen Park, Heisser Lane and Motor Ave. (entrance on Motor Ave.), Farmingdale, NY.

We have directions and a map here.

To see previous GARC meetings, click here.

VE Information:

GARC VE sessions are held every second Tuesday. at Briarcliff College. Call W2ILP for the latest information.

Bill N2SFT at the Spark demonstration by George W2KRM 5/2004.

Field Day 2007 Pictures. coming soon.

Field Day 2006 Pictures

Field Day 2005 Pictures

Field Day 2004 Pictures

Field Day 2003 Pictures

Field Day 2002 Pictures

Field Day 2001 Pictures

Field Day 2000 Pictures

Field Day 1999 Pictures

All WA2LQO Field Day scores

Special Event Station 7/20/2000, commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the Landing on the Moon.

The station was operated from the Original Grumman building in Bethpage, NY, where all the Lunar Modules were built. There were 220 QSOs made. View the log here .

Read the Club Newsletter.

View KE2LJ's tower project

View member email addresses. Send corrections and updates to KE2LJ

Download a Grumman Screen Saver for Windows.

Click here to download the mpeg video of an F14 going transonic. It is 1.4 MBs. Will take a few minutes.

This is a still picture of an F18 breaking the sound barrier. It is a MS Word doc file about 1.4 MBs also.

Membership Application: Click here to download a 34K Word Doc file. Fill it out, and send to PO Box 644, Bethpage, NY 11714. Or email it to one of the addresses below.

Affiliated Radio Club Links

GARC supports the Boy Scout Jamboree on the Air. Read about JOTA

Contacts:

President: Pat Masterson KE2LJ. 516-346-7125.

Vice President: Gordon Sammis KB2UB. 631-xxx-xxxx.

Secretary: Karen Cefalo KC2OPX.

Treasurer: Ed Gellender WB2EAV. 516-575-0013.