Activities
BARC is an active group with activities through the year. The ones listed on this page are normally annual ones. For a full list of happening please check out our "Upcoming Events" page. Upcoming Events | Barnstable Amateur Radio Club (barnstablearc.org)
One of our larhgest events every year Field Day offers many people an opertunity to particapate is many different ways.
Cape Cod Mini Maker Faire
Starting in 2014 at the first ever Mini Maker Faire on Cape Cod BARC set up a spechial event station and booth to showcase amature radio to particapants at the event.
JOTA - Boy Scouts of America
The Jamboree-on-the-Air, or JOTA, is an annual Scouting event that uses amateur radio to link Scouts around the world, around the nation, and in your own community. Held on the third full weekend of October each year, this worldwide jamboree requires no travel, other than to a nearby radio amateur’s ham shack. Many times the hams will come to you by setting up at a Scout camporee, or perhaps they already have a ham shack at your council’s camp. There are many ways to get your Scouts involved in JOTA.
Otherwise knows as Amature Radio Direction Finding or ARDF. An exciting branch of amateur radio, attracting people of all ages. ARDF is very similar to orienteering, the major difference being that participants use direction-finding equipment to locate radio transmitters, rather than navigating to known points on a map. BARC also does mobile hunts that differ from true ARDF events and some on foot single transmitter hunts.
