CCARC Helps out at Scouting Camporee
CCARC members were on hand on Saturday September 30th to help out at the Boy Scouts Camporee. The Camporee was held at the Clearfield Airport with several Boy Scout Merit Badges being offered, including the Radio Merit Badge. Participating scouts worked through the required merit badge classroom discussion curriculum and were given the opportunity to …. Read More
Volunteers Needed to Conduct Boy Scout Radio Merit Badge Course
The Clearfield County Amateur Radio Club is organizing an effort to support an upcoming Boy Scout Camporee Radio Merit Badge course which will be held on September 30th at the Clearfield Airport. They are expecting about 100 scouts from across Central Pennsylvania to attend the camporee. On Saturday September 30th Boy Scout leaders will be …. Read More
CCARC August Newsletter Publshed
The August CCARC Newsletter has been published and is available download. Follow this link to download a copy.
CCARC Installs New GMRS Band Repeater
The Clearfield County Amateur Radio Club is pleased to announce that a new GMRS service repeater has been placed into service at Rockton Mountain, Clearfield County. This repeater was made possible with the cooperation and assistance of both Clearfield County EMA and Center Communications staff. The repeater is on 462.675 MHz with the receive set …. Read More
CCARC Field Day Successful
CCARC wishes to extend a huge thank you to everyone who participated and contributed to the CCARC club Field Day event this past weekend. The event was held at Harvey and Janet Hagg’s camp in a remote area outside of Penfield PA. Harvey, better known as N3RTK, was the primary station operator working the radio …. Read More
June CCARC Newsletter Published
The June issue of the Clearfield County Amateur Radio Club newsletter is now available for review. It’s on the club web site at CCARC June Newsletter
New GMRS Repeater
CCARC club members have undertaken a GMRS service repeater project. GMRS, or General Mobile Radio Service, is a radio service intended for the general public. You do need a license to use a GMRS repeater, but there’s no test involved – only a $35 fee for a 10 year license. Nationally there has been significant …. Read More
CCARC Field Day Plans
CCARC will be holding a Field Day event at Harvey N3RTK’s camp near Penfield. The ARRL Field Day is scheduled to run Saturday June 24 at 2PM through Sunday June 25th 2023 at 2PM. According the toe contest rules, Field Day setup can begin as early as 0000 UTC on Friday. Harvey is coordinating setup …. Read More
June 2023 Blair ARES Published
The June issue of Blair ARES Alert has been released and is available for review on the CCARC web site. Click here to see the June issue.
Clearfield County EmComm Meeting Scheduled
On Wednesday March 15 at 7 PM a Zoom meeting event has been scheduled to discuss Emergency Communications within Clearfield County and the regions immediately surrounding Clearfield County. Members of the Treasure Lake Amateur Radio Group, the Clearfield County Amateur Radio Club and the Philipsburg Amateur Radio Association. We did also reach out to …. Read More
