Crawford Amateur Radio Society

Supporting Amateur Radio in NW PA since 1972

Supporting Amateur Radio in NWPA since 1972

Crawford Amateur Radio Society

License Exams

Our VE team belongs to the ARRL VEC. Exams are given on the third Tuesday of the month, 6:30 pm by pre-registration only. The current fee is 15.00, and applicants need a photo ID, and copies of your current license or CSCE, if applicable. The FCC now requires all applicants to have a FRN and provide a email address. Click here to pre-register, or call the team liaison, Jamie Tolbert at 814-337-2315.

Instructions on obtaining an FRN are available here: https://www.fcc.gov/wireless/support/universal-licensing-system-uls-resources/getting-fcc-registration-number-frn

Amateur Radio News

Promote Your Club’s 2025 ARRL Field Day With Posters

Johns Hopkins University to Hold ARRL Teachers Institute

A session of the ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology (TI) is being hosted this summer by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland. This marks the [...]

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Heritage CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame Inductees Named

The Heritage CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame, created by longtime amateur radio publisher Richard Ross, K2MGA (SK), will continue to honor amateur radio operators on a new section of [...]

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The ARRL Solar Report

On May 2, Spaceweather.com reported: "Astronomers are monitoring avery large sunspot now turning toward Earth. Sunspot AR4079stretches more than 140,000 km from end to end and has two darkcores each [...]

630-Meter Band Worked All States Awards Issued

by Sierra Harrop, W5DXEric Tichansky, NO3M, of Saegertown, Pennsylvania, has been issued the first Worked All States award from ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® for the 630-meter band. [...]

ARRL Announces Change in Atlantic Division Leadership

Martin J. “Marty” Pittinger, KB3MXM, has resigned as Vice Director of the ARRL Atlantic Division, effective April 28, 2025.Pittinger had been Vice Director since January 2023, when he was appointed [...]