Public Serivice Events
Public Service Events We give back to the community by helping out with public service events, such as Holiday at Home, 5K runs/walks, and many other events throughout the year. When needed, we take our communication van out to location as a command post to relay information. Most of the time this is health and […]
Contesting
DARA Contesting We participate in several contests throughout the year at the W8BI club house. We have earned several awards in the past few years. If you would like to participate in any of the ARRL/CQ contests, please contact one of our contest committee members. We always need more operators working the radios, logging, keeping […]
Antennas
W8BI Antennas at B-Road We currently have 4 main antenna towers Our Main Antenna From the picture, you can see that we utilize this tower for our ATV repeater, the W8HEQ D-Star repeaters and our links for our analog repeaters Our North West Tower This tower has our back up HF beam, a Force 12. ALong […]
Club House
The DARA Club House. Since the inception of the club, we held most of our membership meetings at several locations. From the early days, we met at the Dayton Engineers Club for several years. Then we moved to Srepco, which we stayed at for several more years. We never had a place that we could […]
DARA VAN
The DARA Communication Van A little history – Our first Comm Vehicle As the Dayton Amateur Radio Association began to flourish in the seventies, several of its members enjoyed public service events, so they got together and were able to find an Argosy Motorhome. After several months of hard work, design and implementation, they finally came […]