Murgas Amateur Radio Club

Wilkes-Barre, PA USA

Murgas makes the News! Field Day coverage on WBRE-TV

Murgas Amateur Radio Club, NASA, The University of Scranton and Misericordia University

cooperated to bring NASA Astronaut Colonel Doug Wheelock - KF5BOC to our area.

The events can be viewed on the Murgas ARC YouTube Channel

WNEP-TV's Meterologist John Hickey interview of Col. Wheelock

Please be sure to check our Groups.io messages for current meeting dates and times. Our meeeting day and location may change due to COVID issues. The most current information will be in the "Topics" section of k3ytl.groups.io. Link below. Please be sure to check our Groups.io messages for current meeting dates and times.

Our meeeting day and location may change due to COVID issues.

The most current information will be in the "Topics" section of k3ytl.groups.io.

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Due to COVID Restrictions, our meetings are temporarily being held via teleconference.
Current information on k3ytl.groups.io

Our Club meetings are held at 8:00PM on the First Wednesday of the month

at the Luzerne County Emergency Management Building in Wilkes-Barre

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Want to know more about Radio Pioneer Father Joseph Murgas?

Read all about Fr. Joseph Murgas, the "Father of Radio"

Click here for Info on the K3M Special Event November 2021.

Commemorating the 116th Anniversary of Father Jozef Murgas' first public success of an overland transmission of radio signals using tones.

Read all about Fr. Joseph Murgas, the "Father of Radio"

Murgas ARC VE Testing

Contact k3tow@arrl.net for current testing information.
The Murgas VE Team is offering VE Tests before each regular meeting.
Registration 2 weeks in advance is required. Email K3TOW at ARRL.NET to arrange for a test session.
No Walk-ins Permitted.

There are now several ways to take an exam online.

Here is a good place to start: http://www.arrl.org/FindOnlineExam

or https://hamstudy.org/sessions/online

MARC NET - Every Thursday 9pm

Club
            Repeater (145.450/PL 82.5)

MARC Net Check-in Contest Rules

What is Amateur Radio? Find out all you need to know here.

Our Hamfest is the first Sunday in July! Click here for details.

The Murgas ARC would like to Thank DX Engineering, KJI Electronics and HamTestOnline for their support of our Hamfest.