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, Columbus, Ohio. 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 Feb 3 - General meeting and program, JT65 and Weak Signal Communications, by club members WA8LBZ, K8AX, N8WL, and K8LJ; 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 Apr 5 - General meeting and program, Homebrewing and Kit Building, by club members K8AX and WA8LBZ; 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
- Thu Jun 16 - General meeting and program, Field Day planning and Portable Operating, by club member 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 Aug 30 - General meeting and program, Echolink, by Dick Leffler, W8RLL; 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
- Thu Oct 20 - General meeting and program, Home Construction Projects, by Jerry Pittenger, K8RA; 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
- Thu Dec 15 - General meeting, including elections, and program, The Greats — those who first discovered the basic electrical phenomena, by Bill Parker, W8DMR; 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 elections, followed by presentation
- Sun Feb 12 - Mansfield Mid-Winter Hamfest, Richland County Fairgrounds, 7AM
- Thu Feb 16 - General meeting and program, Designing and building a QRP wattmeter, by Al Mecozzi/WA8LBZ and Bill Erwin/N9CX; 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 elections, followed by presentation
- Thu Apr 19 - 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 and elections, followed by presentation
- 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
- Our Silent Keys
- Presentation materials from CRES-ARC technical talks
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 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 COOKEN CORC OARC LFCARC NARA
- Our ARRL affiliation info
- A History of the Columbus Works Location and the CRES-ARC
- Identify where the hams are in your neighborhood
- Amateur Radio HF Phone Nets Heard in Ohio
- CRES-ARC Field Day 2004 article from Southeast Messenger.
- Our 5th place 2008 Ohio State Parks on the Air Award Certificate
- A site submitted to the club containing many links of topical interest
- Tusco ARC Hamfest, Strasburg, 8AM (6AM to set up), Sun 29 Jan 2012
- Mansfield Mid-Winter Hamfest, Richland County Fairgrounds, 7AM, Sun 12 Feb 2012
- Toledo Hamfest, Owens Community College SHAC, 30335 Oregon Rd, Perrysburg, OH, 8AM - 2PM, Sun 20 Mar 2011
- Jackson Co ARC Hamfest, Electronics & Computer Show, Jackson Co YMCA, 594 E Main St, Jackson, 9AM - 1PM, Sat 23 Apr 2011, Talk-in: 146.79/PL 167.9
- Athens Ohio Hamfest, Athens Community Center, 8AM - 1PM, Sun 1 May 2011
- The Dayton Hamvention, Hara Arena, Fri-Sun 18-20 May 2012
- Van Wert ARC Hamfest, Van Wert County Fairgrounds, 8AM, Sun 22 July 2012
- The Columbus Hamfest, Aladdin Shrine Temple, Columbus, 8AM - 1PM, Sat 6 Aug 2011
- NW Ohio Hamfest, Lima, 8AM, Sat 13 Aug 2011 (by Northwest Ohio ARC and Fair Radio)
- The Findlay Hamfest, Hancock County Fairgrounds, 7:30AM, Sun 11 Sep 2011
- Greater Cincinnati ARA Hamfest, Diamond Oaks Career Development Center, 8AM - 2PM, Sun 18 Sep 2011
- Cleveland Hamfest, Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds, 8AM - 2PM, Sun 25 Sep 2011
