The Alamo Area Radio Organization (AARO) is a nonprofit Amateur Radio organization, club call sign AA5RO, dedicated to assisting the community through radio communications, and the enjoyment, appreciation, and the sharing of knowledge and advancement of Amateur Radio. The purpose of this site is to provide club news and messages from the AARO Board to club members, and to present information that might be useful to HAMs anywhere.
Upcoming:
Some information Kevin Carney AE8L and Brian Jones AC5GL:
1. FIELD DAY: Kevin spoke with Paul, the President of SARC, and he said he would be glad for our Club to join SARC at Shavano Park for Field Day. SARC would like some of our members to volunteer to assist in getting equipment out of SARC storage and transport it to the Shavano Park location. SARC needs to know how many of our Club Members would like to set-up on Field Day. SARC would like to know if you will be using telephone, CW, Digital or any other method or combinations; they also need to know if you will bring your own power source or connect to their generator for power.SARC also needs volunteers to help set-up at the park and a volunteer to go to BLANCO BAR-B-QUE to pick up dinner for the Field Day personnel.
2. National Emergency Management Resources: Meeting was held at the National Emergency Management Resources location, 7451 FM3009, Schertz, TX. 78154 on 4/12. I believe the Government can hire them to assist in emergencies. They have command vehicles, hospital set ups, and many other forms of apparatus. They wish to get some feedback from Hams on uses and set-up of radios plus antennas, they would like some of our members to join them in working their emergencies. About 15 hams from SARC, AARO and SADRC were there. There may be more meetings in the future to help nail down NEMR’s communication plan.
Our next meeting for AARO at Mamacita’s will be on Wednesday, May 14th, 2025.
The restaurant is located on Interstate 10 West near Callaghan Rd.
Food service starts at 6PM, meeting starts at 7PM.
Patricia Colley, KI7IEE, will do a presentation on ARES.
There will be a discussion about Summer Field Day set for June 28th & 29th.
All are welcome. Visit the Club Meetings page for more details.
AARO Monthly Dinner
April 9 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Our club meetings are a social hour from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., followed by the Club Meeting where Club news will be discussed by directors and a presentation. New radio operators and guests are welcome.
ARRL Field Day
June 22, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – June 23, 2024 @ 10:00 am
AARO members at the May meeting unanimously agreed to join San Antonio Radio Club (SARC) at the City of Shavano Park City Hall Pavilion for the annual ARRL Field Day. This will ensure higher turnout and allow us to share in the ammenities such as restrooms and refreshments.
The area is shaded under a large breezy wooden canopy where fans should be present to keep the heat managable. The official event starts at 1PM, but people may begin showing up around noon to get settled in and prepared.
For a PDF with extensive details including radio resources, CLICK HERE.
If you aren’t licensed by the FCC, Field Day is for you too! We will have licensed operators present to instruct you on proper equipment use and allow you to get on the air! You’re welcome to get an Associate Membership and enjoy food, conversation, and learning about amateur radio equipment and licensing. Please visit our Member Registration page and come to our monthly meeting in June to sign up!
We hope to see you there!
Pete’s Wires X Presentation
AARO Member Pete gave a nice presentation about Yaesu digital technology Wires-X.
WINTER FIELD DAY 2024 Message from Keith
Many thanks to all who helped make this years WFD a success.
AARO had 28 people at the site this weekend. We want to thank American Legion Post 300 for their awesome hospitality. I am working on assembling all the logs and will issue a report on them in days. A huge shout out to a special person to our club, Imee Numos. She has continued with her contribution this year just like the past several years. This event would not be the event it has become without our enthusiastic attendees. We had several non-hams working the radio under licensed control operators. Kelly Randal (WB5MZT) had many people visit his coax repair station. There are way too many people to thank for this awesome event, but everyone has special talents which contributed to a great time. Until the next one.
Here are some results:
CW Crew Dale and Brian (Special Note for next time CW community did not like our use of 1×1 call sign.) 15m 9 20m 4 40m 4 United States 16 Canada 1.
FT8 Team Team Hicks and Kenny :)<BAND:3>10m 1 15m 16 20m 3 30m 3 40m 17 80m 30
Grand Total 70
- Belize 1
- Bulgaria 1
- Canada 2
- Chile 1
- Cuba 2
- Czech Republic 1
- France 1
- Japan 2
- Puerto Rico 2
- Republic of Korea (S. Korea) 1
- United States 55
- Venezuela 1
- Phone SSB Guys Tim, Mike, Pete, David, Kenny, John, Bob
- 10m 3
- 15m 16
- 20m 26
- United States
- FL, CT, AR, GA, HI, IA, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, MI, MN, NC, NJ, NM, NY, OH, PA, TN, UT, VA, WI, UT, VA, WI
- Spain
- Canada
Talking to the ISS
Keith KD5JGD gave a presentation on using ham radio to talk to and through the ISS
N9EOD Balloon Presentation
Thanks to everyone that came to the meeting tonight. Here is the PowerPoint from tonight.
Amateur Radio and NWS Balloons
If you want to attend the balloon launch on 20 April at 0700 at Old Kingsbury Aerodrome in Kingsbury, TX, please let me know here or at n9eod@n9eod.com
POTA presentation by Pete Carpenter
Pete’s presentation is linked below. Please feel free to print a copy.
Winter Field Day 2023
Another outstanding Winter Field Day is in the books. The weather was decent and the food was delicious! Thanks to KC3MVS and his XYL for planning and preparing the food. Also, a special thanks to the American Legion Post #300, who allowed us to set up on their site.
Hope to see you at the next Field Day, which is June 24th, 2023.
