About Us
The Crawford Amateur Radio Society is an ARRL Special Services Club. We meet monthly, on the third Tuesday of the month, currently at St Brigids Church Social hall on Arch Street in Meadville. We provide Education, licensing exams and actively pursue technical projects, emergency communications and operating activities. Our members come from all over Western PA and Ohio.
The club maintains 4 repeaters in Crawford County. All club repeaters require a PL tone of 186.2 for access.
147.210 – is the main repeater located at the Crawford County Fairgrounds and has emergency backup power. The equipment is a VXR-7000 (50 watts) with an Arcom RC210 controller. The repeater provides public service with Skywarn communications for the National Weather Service , support to the county emergency services and other public service organizations when they hold an event. This repeater is also the home to a nightly net at 9pm (except meeting nights and holidays).147.03+ repeater is located in Norrisville. It’s a Yaesu DR-2X, configured for both analog and digital and located on a commercial tower that the club occupies space on and is equipped with battery backup
145.130 + Located on a site along Route 27 east of Meadville. The tower site is club owned and maintained. It is also a Yaesu DR-2X, configured for both analog and digital, with battery backup
444.075+ is one of the few UHF repeaters in Northwest Pennsylvania. It is also located at the club owned site on RT 27 and is a Motorola Quantar.
- Walk for the Bacon QRP Contest
- QRP Fox Hunt
- NCCC FT4 Sprint
- Weekly RTTY Test
- NCCC Sprint Ladder
- K1USN Slow Speed Test
- WAE DX Contest, CW
- FISTS Saturday Sprint
- SKCC Weekend Sprintathon
- YB Bekasi Merdeka Contest
- Maryland-DC QSO Party
- Kentucky State Parks on the Air
- 50 MHz Fall Sprint
- NCCC 55th Anniversary Fiesta
- SARL HF Digital Contest