This part of the w8zpf.org website contains information about the CRES Amateur Radio Club made available by the Secretary for the benefit of its members.
The CRES-ARC was founded in 1962 by hams working at the Western Electric manufacturing facility on East Broad St. The front building, originally owned by AT&T, then spun off to Lucent Technologies in 1996, and finally Mount Carmel Health in 2004, still serves as home base for our club's W8ZPF Repeater. Membership in the CRES-ARC is now open to all interested amateurs.
- Every Sun, 9 PM - Club roundtable on W8ZPF/R, 146.67-, 131.8 CTCSS
- Thu Oct 22 - General meeting and program, Ham Radio and Interference, by Rick Swain, KK8O; New Albany Branch of the Columbus Public Library, 6:00 PM: gather to eat and socialize (brown bag your own food), 7 PM: short meeting followed by presentation
- Tue Dec 8 - General meeting and program, GPS and APRS, by Mike Mickelson, KD8DZ, and Kevin Howard, KD8DNO; New Albany Branch of the Columbus Public Library, 6:00 PM: gather to eat and socialize (brown bag your own food); 7 PM: short meeting, including the election of our next year's officers, followed by presentation
- Mon Mar 22 - General meeting and program, Software Defined Radios, by Fred Sass/WA8PGE, with Doug Gibbs/W8NFT, Joe Knapp/W8QJ, and Jim Jennessee/KD8UT; New Albany Branch of the Columbus Public Library, 6:00 PM: gather to eat and socialize (brown bag your own food); 7 PM: short meeting, followed by presentation
- Sat Apr 10 - CRES-ARC sponsored VE Exams, 9 AM at Parkview Presbyterian Church
- Thu Apr 29 - General meeting and program, D-STAR, by Steve Katz, N8WL; New Albany Branch of the Columbus Public Library, 6:00 PM: gather to eat and socialize (brown bag your own food); 7 PM: short meeting, followed by presentation
- Tue Jun 15 - General meeting and program, several topics: (1) Short Field Day planning session; (2) HT-101: How well do you know your HT, Prof. Steve Katz/N8WL; (3) Mini Vector Network Analyzer demo, Dave Woolf/K8RSP; (Note non-standard location and start time:) Reynoldsburg Branch of the Columbus Public Library, 6:30 PM: gather to eat and socialize (brown bag your own food); 7 PM: short meeting, followed by presentations
- Sat-Sun Jun 26-27 - Field Day Contest Weekend
- Sat Aug 7 - CRES-ARC sponsored VE Exams, 9:00 AM at Ham-"OH"-Rama Hamfest, Aladdin Shrine Temple, Columbus
- Thu Aug 19 - General meeting and program, When Lightning Strikes ... Grounding for Amateur Radio Stations, by Mike Mickelson, KD8DZ; New Albany Branch of the Columbus Public Library, 6:00 PM: gather to eat and socialize (brown bag your own food); 7 PM: short meeting, followed by presentation
- Sat Aug 28 - Ohio QSO Party Contest, noon to midnight EDT
- Sat Sep 11 - Ohio State Parks On The Air Contest, noon to 8 PM EDT
- Mon Oct 18 - General meeting and program, topic to be determined; New Albany Branch of the Columbus Public Library, 6:00 PM: gather to eat and socialize (brown bag your own food); 7 PM: short meeting, followed by presentation
- Sat-Sun Nov 13-14 - The 51st annual CQ-WE Contest
- Membership Application (PDF)
- Members and Friends Pictorial Directory
- Dues Information
- CRES-ARC Meeting Minutes
- Meet the members of your CRES-ARC Executive Committee
- Past CRES-ARC Officeholders
- Active Committees within the Club
- VE exam FAQ for aspiring and upgrading hams
- Our CRES-ARC Constitution (PDF)
- The CRES-ARC Photo Gallery
- Silent Keys
- Viewgraphs and other material from recent talks:
- Dec 2009: GPS talk by KD8DZ (475kB PPT)
- Aug 2009: ATV & ATCO talk by WA8RMC (13.5MB PPT)
- Jun 2009: N8WL & K8LJ Field Day Made Easy talk (22.4MB PPT)
- Oct 2008: Fixing Up Nice Old Radios, a guide by W8KGI (46K DOC)
- Aug 2008: TLDetails.exe transmission line modelling program (335kB executable), from K8LJ teaser talk
- Aug 2008: N9CX Antenna Controller talk (8.5MB PPT)
- Mar 2008: Bill Pollack PCB CAD talk (10.3MB PPT) and drag soldering demo (from howardelectronics.com, 2.1MB WMV)
- Apr 2007: K8SV battery talk (24.5MB ZIP) [Download, unzip, then refer to Intrduction_text.txt]
- Dec 2006: K8LJ & K8RSP antenna modelling talk (2.2MB PPT)
- Sep 2006: W8GT receiver design talk (324kB PDF)
- Aug 2006: N9CX microprocessor talk (850kB PPT)
- Feb 2006: K8NU talk - Amsat's Intro to Amateur Satellites Paper (1.5MB PDF)
Ham Radio is all about communications. Our primary means of keeping in contact with one another within the Club is our W8ZPF Repeater, 146.07/146.67 Mhz (with 131.8 Hz CTCSS). The repeater is located at I-270 and Broad St (SR 16) on the east side of Columbus with a remote receiver site in northwest Fairfield County. W8ZPF/R provides good coverage throughout most of Franklin, and much of Fairfield and Licking, Counties. If you have a rig that cannot send subaudible tones, you can override the repeater's CTCSS decoder temporarily by touch-toning 219. Feel free to give a call on W8ZPF/R at any time or join us at 9 PM on Sunday evenings for our weekly Club Roundtable.
The CRES-ARC also maintains two internet email lists -- a discussion group and an email announcement list. What's the difference? The announcement list is a low volume list intended to announce our meetings and activities as well as get the word out about other items of interest to all club members. The discussion group is a potentially higher volume Yahoo Groups forum that can either be viewed online or followed through emails. On the discussion group the topics are more dynamic, going where ever its members choose to take them.
- The announcement list is maintained by the Secretary and you should find yourself automatically made a member upon joining the club. Drop me an email if you wish to change your email address, be removed, or if you have a question.
- If you are a club member and would like to join the CRES_ARC discussion group on Yahoo, just enter your email address below and click "GO" to get started:
- Finally, as a courtesy, we maintain a set of mail aliases for most of our members. If you need to send another clubmember an email, but don't have their address handy, sending the email to <recipient's_callsign@w8zpf.org> usually works.
- Contest Info: Field Day Ohio QSO Party (or here?) OSPOTA CQ-WE Telephone Pioneer QSO Party
- National Online Resources: ARRL QRZ EHam QSL QTH mods.dk Bell Ringers
- Local Sister Organization Websites: ATCO COARES CCRA CORC OARC LFCARC NARA
- Our ARRL affiliation info
- CRES-ARC Field Day 2004 article from Southeast Messenger.
- Our 5th place 2008 Ohio State Parks on the Air Award Certificate
- Sunday Creek Amateur Radio Federation Hamfest, Tri-County Career Center, Nelsonville, (from SR33 take Rt 691 about 3/4 mile on left), 8AM - 2PM, Sun 17 Jan 2010, $6/person or $7/table, (Info: 740-593-5949 or n8trk@yahoo.com)
- Tusco ARC Hamfest, Strasburg, 8AM (6AM to set up), Sun 31 Jan 2010
- Mansfield Mid-Winter Hamfest, Richland County Fairgrounds, 7AM, Sun 14 Feb 2010
- Jackson Co ARC Hamfest, Electronics & Computer Show, Jackson Co YMCA, 594 E Main St, Jackson, 9AM - 1PM, Sat 10 Apr 2010, Talk-in: 146.79/PL 167.9
- Athens Ohio Hamfest, Athens Community Center, 8AM - 1PM, Sun 25 Apr 2010
- The Dayton Hamvention, Hara Arena, Fri-Sun 20-22 May 2011
- Van Wert ARC Hamfest, Van Wert County Fairgrounds, 8AM, Sun 18 July 2010
- The Columbus Hamfest, Aladdin Shrine Temple, Columbus, 8AM - 1PM, Sat ?? Aug 2010
- NW Ohio Hamfest, Lima, 8AM, Sat 14 Aug 2010 (by Northwest Ohio ARC and Fair Radio)
- The Findlay Hamfest, Hancock County Fairgrounds, 7:30AM, Sun 12 Sep 2010
- Greater Cincinnati ARA Hamfest, Scarlet Oaks Campus, Sharonville, 8AM - 3PM, Sun 20 Sep 2009
- Cleveland Hamfest, Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds, 8AM - 2PM, Sun 27 Sep 2009
