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
- Tue Aug 19 - General meeting and program, "Field Day slide show and wrapup" by WA8LBZ, followed by a Field Day discussion -- what we did right and how we can improve next year; New Albany Branch of the Columbus Public Library, 6:30 PM: gather to eat and socialize (brown bag your own food), 7 PM: short meeting and program
- Sat Aug 23 - Noon to Midnight EDT - The 2008 Ohio QSO Party. Stations in Ohio can work anyone, anywhere. Everyone else must work Ohio stations, so we Buckeyes are the hunted, not the hunters for a change.
- Sat Sep 6 - Ohio State Parks On The Air Contest, noon to 8 PM EDT.
- Tue Oct 21 - Fall General meeting and program, Antique Radio Collecting Mike Riggins, please bring your old and/or restored radio for show and tell; 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 and program
- Sat Dec 6 - CRES-ARC sponsored VE Exams, 9 AM at Parkview Presbyterian Church
- Membership Application (PDF)
- Member and Friend Pictorial Directory
- Dues Information
- CRES-ARC Meeting Minutes
- Meet your CRES-ARC Officers
- 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
- Viewgraphs and other material from recent talks:
- 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 via 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 vary, 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 or if you have a question.
- If you are a club member and would like to join the CRES_ARC discussion group, 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 CQ-WE Telephone Pioneer QSO Party
- National Online Resources: ARRL QRZ EHam QSL mods.dk Bell Ringers
- Local Sister Organization Websites: COARES CCRA CORC OARC LFCARC FARA
- Our ARRL affiliation info
- CRES-ARC Field Day 2004 article from Southeast Messenger.
- Mansfield Mid-Winter Hamfest, Richland County Fairgrounds, Sun 8 Feb 2009
- Toledo Hamfest, Lucas County Rec Center, 2901 Key St, Maumee, 8AM - 2PM, Sun 15 Mar 2009
- Athens Ohio Hamfest, Athens Community Center, 8AM - 1PM, Sun 27 Apr 2008
- The Dayton Hamvention, Hara Arena, Fri-Sun 16-18 May 2008
- Van Wert ARC Hamfest, Van Wert County Fairgrounds, 8AM, Sun 20 July 2008
- The Columbus Hamfest, Aladdin Shrine Temple, Columbus, 8AM - 1PM, Sat 2 Aug 2008
- NW Ohio Hamfest, Lima, 8AM, Sat 9 Aug 2008 (by Northwest Ohio ARC and Fair Radio)
- Cambridge Hamfest and Computer Show, Pritchard Laughlin Civic Center, Cambridge; Info: n8mwk@arrl.net or 740-767-2226; 8AM - 2PM, Sun 24 Aug 2008
- The Findlay Hamfest, Hancock County Fairgrounds, 7:30AM, Sun 7 Sep 2008
- Greater Cincinnati ARA Hamfest, Scarlet Oaks Campus, Sharonville, 8AM - 3PM, Sun 21 Sep 2008
- Cleveland Hamfest, Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds, 8AM - 2PM, Sun 28 Sep 2008
