About Us
The Crawford Amateur Radio Society is an ARRL Special Services Club. We meet monthly, on the third Tuesday of the month, at West Mead #1 Fire Dept at 10482 Liberty St, 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.
- Worldwide Sideband Activity Contest
- ICWC Medium Speed Test
- DARC RTTY Sprint
- Tuesday's Telegraphy Contest
- NAQCC CW Sprint
- Phone Weekly Test
- A1Club AWT
- CWops Test (CWT)
- VHF-UHF FT8 Activity Contest
- Mini-Test 40
- Mini-Test 80
- RSGB 80m Autumn Series, Data
- CWops Test (CWT)
- VHF-UHF FT8 Activity Contest-NA
- Walk for the Bacon QRP Contest