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
- Wed Feb 18 - General meeting and program, QSL cards and QSLing by Al Mecozzi/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 Al's presentation
- Sat Apr 4 - CRES-ARC sponsored VE Exams, 9 AM at Parkview Presbyterian Church
- Thu Apr 16 - General meeting and program, Watt and SWR meters: How accurate are they?; Bring your meters for comparison and testing; More information forthcoming; 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
- Wed Jun 24 - General meeting and program, Field Day planning meeting; New Albany Branch of the Columbus Public Library; Note: We do not have the facility until 7 PM this evening so we will have a brief social "hour" at 7 PM with the meeting starting at 7:20. Afterwards, Bob Kenyon/K8LJ and Steve Katz/N8WL will give a presentation "Field Day Made Easy"
- Sat-Sun Jun 27-28 - Field Day Contest Weekend, Infirmary Mound Park, Granville; Breakfast: Sat 9AM; Setup: Sat 10AM; Field Day: Sat 2PM - Sun 2PM; Potluck picnic dinner: Sat 6PM
- Aug meeting: tentatively to feature Radio Astronomy, with a possible associated field trip over a weekend to the Greenbank Radio Telescope in West Virginia. More information to follow.
- Sat Sep 12 - Ohio State Parks on the Air contest and picnic, North Shore Ramp, Buckeye State Park
- Sat-Sun Nov 14-15 - The 50th annual CQ-WE Contest
- Sat-Sun Dec 5-6 - The 45th annual Telephone Pioneer QSO Party
- Membership Application (PDF)
- Member and Friend 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
- Viewgraphs and other material from recent talks:
- 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 OSPOTA 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 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 18 Jan 2009, $6/person or $7/table, (Info: 740-593-5949 or n8trk@yahoo.com)
- Tusco ARC Hamfest, Strasburg, 8AM (6AM to set up), Sun 25 Jan 2009
- Mansfield Mid-Winter Hamfest, Richland County Fairgrounds, 7AM, Sun 15 Feb 2009
- Toledo Hamfest, Lucas County Rec Center, 2901 Key St, Maumee, 8AM - 2PM, Sun 15 Mar 2009
- Jackson Co ARC Hamfest, Electronics & Computer Show, Jackson Co YMCA, 594 E Main St, Jackson, 9AM - 1PM, Sat 11 Apr 2009, Talk-in: 146.79/PL 167.9
- Athens Ohio Hamfest, Athens Community Center, 8AM - 1PM, Sun 26 Apr 2009
- The Dayton Hamvention, Hara Arena, Fri-Sun 15-17 May 2009
- Van Wert ARC Hamfest, Van Wert County Fairgrounds, 8AM, Sun 19 July 2009
- The Columbus Hamfest, Aladdin Shrine Temple, Columbus, 8AM - 1PM, Sat 1 Aug 2009
- NW Ohio Hamfest, Lima, 8AM, Sat 15 Aug 2009 (by Northwest Ohio ARC and Fair Radio)
- The Findlay Hamfest, Hancock County Fairgrounds, 7:30AM, Sun 13 Sep 2009
- Greater Cincinnati ARA Hamfest, Scarlet Oaks Campus, Sharonville, 8AM - 3PM, Sun 20 Sep 2009
- Cleveland Hamfest, Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds, 8AM - 2PM, Sun 28 Sep 2008
