Club News

EFMARC participated this year in the Winter Field Day event.  It was a great time and great success.  We arrived starting at 9am on Saturday Jan. 25, 2025, and began setting up.  Ken brought a great tow behind antenna tower that he built.  With that we were able to deploy a 2-band dipole 40 feet […]

EFMARC is having another tech class!  The first class we did a couple years ago was a big success.  So, we are doing it again this year. More information and to sign up please visit https://www.efmarc.org/events/technician-class-2025/.  

EFMARC has decided to hold the Winter Field Day event at the Fort Johnson Fire Company No. 2 in Amsterdam NY.  We will be setting up starting at 11:00am EST on Saturday, January 25 205.  Please come see us and see what all the fuss is about!   For more information about the Winter Field

In December we had our officer elections.  Over the past couple years, we have made changes to the bylaws and constitution to make the terms of an officer position 2 years.  We also changed the structure to allow an officer to run for 2 consecutive terms.  This allows for a maximum of 4 years serving

With the enhancements and tuning of our new club repeater, we are now moving the bi-monthly net to our repeater.  We thank the Mohawk Valley group for letting us use their repeater for our net’s. The repeater is on 147.390 MHz with a + offset and PL Tone of 71.9; The net is opened to

For reference we now have the official EFMARC club script for running Net’s.  Feel free to download and modify as needed.  The script is located in Ham Operator Resources located here.

Oct. 4, 2024 was a day of success. We worked most of the day, starting just after 10:00 AM. First, we were surprised. The Fort Johnson ladder truck is out of service. So, what showed up, the Hagaman ladder truck. All the firefighters were very helpful. Installing the antenna was the first challenge. It went

Joy Karns (KE2ATU) is a fairly new member but quite active with our club. Joy joined us for our technician class looking to get her ticket into the hobby. Joy was a model student participating in all discussions. It paid off as she passed the test with ease. Asking questions and participating in club meetings

Starting in April, the Eastern Fulmont Amateur Radio Club will be adding presentations to our club meetings. These presentations will cover a wide array of topics to keep interest in the meetings as well as help newly licensed operators gain knowledge and experience. Presentations may include topics like: If you are interested in presenting or

We have completed our first Technician Class training course this past weekend. We had 10 students, 6 of which took the test directly after the class earning their tech license. Congratulations to all of them. We held the class for 3 days (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday) and ended with a test session Sunday afternoon. Many