PennARC Meeting

[The University of Pennsylvania Amateur Radio Club]

Hi everyone,

Happy New Year and welcome to the first day of classes (for those still students)!

We’re excited to reboot the Amateur Radio Club this year and would love to kick things off with an initial meeting.

If you’re on campus, please fill out this when2meet form to let us know your availability. We’ll find a time that works for everyone. While we have a strong alumni and community base, we need more participation from undergraduates and graduate students to get projects approved, budgets approved, and hopefully, an antenna on the roof again.

https://www.when2meet.com/?34373016-FePuM 

This year, we have a lot of equipment, support, and passion for the club. We plan to bring back exciting events like licensing courses and sessions, field trips, and equipment setup to Penn’s campus.

In the meantime, feel free to reach out. I’m excited about the future of the club.

73

Jefferson VA3JFO

[john campbell]

Jefferson: Wonderful.

For Your Information:  Last night I (and WB3BLF Lizz) were on the ARES Em Comms call with Cliff from our October pizza party.  

The big event for “us” this year - us being Philadelphia - is the World Cup Soccer this summer with two locations - FDR Park / Lincoln Field and also Lemon Hill.

==> ARES will be looking for volunteers to work the event - no licensed needed.  This is to form strike teams to respond to situations - mostly looking for lost kids. 

- The Penn repeater 146.685 will most likely be the main repeater, with Temple as well as backup as we may need their 440 repeater  to structure our propagation around the City buildings (which we are working on).

- Any student could volunteer so you will hear more - however this will be in the Summer 2026.  

- Basically people man either the communication tents (2) or join a strike team to have comms in the crowds as nodes.

Also - recall in the event of any incident, like the Atlanta Olympics or the Boston Marathon Bombing, the Cell towers will be overloaded so the area loses cellular comms.

The ARES comm teams will be in place - similarly but not as large as when the Pope visited about 15 years ago.

Jefferson: I will leave this tidbit of knowledge on your hands and you decide and find out what the students are interested in.  I don’t know if Penn students need volunteer hours to graduate but this would count.  

Great momentum and looking forward to hearing more.

best,

john

w3mhz

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