Meetings
The Pack Rats meet on the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 PM at the Ben Wilson Senior Center in Warminster, PA, except for the June, July and August meetings. Everyone is welcome to attend our meetings. The Ben Wilson Senior Center is located at:
Warminster, PA 18974
This is one block south of Street Road (Route 132), behind Giuseppe's Pizza. Delmont Avenue is between York Road (Route 263) and Easton Road (Route 611) across from the Five Ponds Golf Course. Click here for a map.
The upcoming meeting agenda:
- November - 11/16/2017, Ray, N3RG will be presenting on the use of digital modes in contesting.
- December - 12/21/2017, Holiday Social: Here's a chance to relax with friends and discuss the experiences of the past years. Doors open at 6:00pm. Come early and hungry.
- January - 01/18/2018, Our traditional pre contest program presented by the January Contest Chairs Bob, W2SJ and Bill, K3EGE with supplemental analysis by Ben, WA3RLT
- January - 01/27/2018, Contest Wrap Up meeting at Bob’s, W2SJ QTH, Saturday morning - 10 am
- February - 02/15/2018, Packrat Crying Towel - what went wrong in January!
- March - 03/15/2018, Home Brew night and equipment checkout
- April - 04/19/2018, ARRL Night, Ed Hare W1RFI, with little known stories at the ARRL lab
- May - 05/17/2018, Virtual Packrat Shack Tours
- June - 06/08-11/2018 June Contest at Camelback
- 06/21/2018 General Meeting - Elections and Contest Wrap up
- July - 07/19/2018 White Elephant Sale at the QTH of Bruce WA3YUE
- August - 08/11/2018 Annual Packrat Picnic at QTH of Michael KB1JEY - rain date 8/12
- September -09/20/2018 ADALM-Pluto SDR, Dennis Silage K3DS
- September -09/28,29,30/2018 Packrat Mid Atlantic VHF Conference
- October - 10/18/2018 DMR (Digital Mobile Radio) Tim Eichelman N3TPE
- November -
- December - 12/20/2018 Annual Holiday Social
Upcoming Conferences in 2019 and 2020:
2019 Super VHF Conference April 25-28, 2019 in Herndon, Va.
2020 Microwave Update Conference with NEWS Location and date TBD