The Lynchburg Amateur Radio Club, Inc. (LARC) is an ARRL Affiliated Club that was first formally organized in 1950 and incorporated in 1970. The Club has been in service to the Lynchburg Community ever since. For more details about the club, click on the “About Us” tab. Take a look around our website to see what is currently going on with our club.
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Field Day Update
One last reminder for Field Day. It’s this weekend at the Brookville Ruritan Club. If you have a chance, come out and mingle a bit and maybe operate some. We’ll be active from 2PM Saturday till 2PM on Sunday. For those of you that are newly licensed Techs it’s a chance to see how to operate on…
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2026 Field Day Announcement
Come out for LARC’s Field Day on June 27 and 28. We’ll be operating for 24 hours straight, starting at 2pm on Saturday. Setup times will be Friday and Saturday morning. The main object of Field Day is to contact as many similar stations as possible across the US and Canada during that period. A secondary objective is to…
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2025 Field Day Slide Show
Here is a link to a slide show presentation put together by Rick Brown (NN4RB) that shows what happened last year at Field Day. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gw0e7hcdbsaphys68vzja/2025-Field-Day.mp4?rlkey=kuyvi2v051gzdgyfr3mp2s6ux&st=kfvatbv5&dl=0
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May 2026 Club Meeting Announcement
The Lynchburg Amateur Radio Club (LARC) will hold its next meeting on Friday, May 8, 2026, at 7:30 PM at the Lynchburg Fire Training Center (613 Training Center Road). The program is titled Antennas! by Hank Fallek (WA3KK) via Zoom.
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FREE ON-LINE AMATEUR RADIO OPERATING CLASS
A free, weekly, 3-hour Amateur Radio Operating Class on Zoom will begin onThursday April 2 and run through June 18. Sessions will be 2 to 3 hourslong beginning at 6:30 PM. EASTERN time. Typically, two topics are coveredper evening. The presenters will be folks very experienced in the varioussubjects. A detailed syllabus will be published before the classes begin. Attend…
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March 2026 Club Meeting Announcement
The Lynchburg Amateur Radio Club (LARC) will hold its next meeting on Friday, March 13, 2026, at 7:30 PM at the Lynchburg Fire Training Center (613 Training Center Road). The program is titled “Hands-on Demo and Operation of W1AW/4 in Virginia” by Rick Brown (NN4RB). During this meeting anyone will have the rare opportunity to…
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How to Operate as W1AW/4
Join other Amateur Radio Operators across the Commonwealth and activate the ARRL Station Call, as W1AW/4, starting at 7pm, March 10th thru March 17th. Each ARRL Section has a week in the spring/summer to active the station call as part of the ARRL’s WAS250 contest. Signups are required, as only one W1AW/4 station may be on…
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February 2026 Club Meeting Announcement
The Lynchburg Amateur Radio Club (LARC) will hold its next meeting on Friday, February 13, 2026, at 7:30 PM at the Lynchburg Fire Training Center (613 Training Center Road). The program is titled “Fractal Burning” by Andy Anderson, KR4FS.
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