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- New Club Lending Library
TARC Lending Library The Trident Amateur Radio Club is accumulating books and other resource materials in our lending library and will make them available for check out by club members in good standing. Material can be checked out at the club meeting and must be returned at the following club meeting. TARC members are encouraged… - ANNUAL ARMED FORCES DAY CROSSBAND TEST (10 May 2025)ANNUAL ARMED FORCES DAY CROSSBAND TEST (10 May 2025) The Department of Defense will host this year’s Armed Forces Day (AFD) Crossband Test, scheduled for May 10, 2025. This annual event is open to all licensed amateur radio operators and will not impact any public or private communications. For more than 50 years, military and…
- TARC teaches students how to solder LED Flashing Light kits
Last school year, TARC volunteers taught the students at Saint John Catholic School in North Charleston about electronic components and radio propagation, including building crystal radios and transistor audio amplifiers from scratch on pine wood boards with screw terminals. For this school year, the Principal, Karen Durand (KQ4TVY), asked us to take it a step… - N4EE makes successful ARISS contact
On 24 February 2024, TARC teamed with the SC Department of Employment and Workforce (DEW) and the following four area middle schools to write a winning proposal resulting in receiving an opportunity for an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact on 2 December 2024. The challenge the team faced was choosing one… - Saint John Catholic School Ham Radio Station
As we reported in a previous article, TARC Volunteers helped the students at Saint John Catholic School in North Charleston build and test transistor radios in January 2024. The goal over the summer break was 1) to get the teachers and staff licensed and 2) to install an Amateur Radio Station at the school for…