The Rockwall Amateur Radio Club
Serving the Rockwall Area Since 1999
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Welcome to the Rockwall Amateur Radio Club
Welcome to the Rockwall Amateur Radio Club
The Rockwall Amateur Radio Club (RARC) was formed in 1999 to share and promote amateur (ham) radio and to provide communications for Rockwall area public events and emergencies. The club is open to all licensed hams and to anyone interested in learning more about ham radio and getting licensed are welcome to come visit.
Check out How to Become a Ham Radio Operator
Upcoming Events
August 27 - "Hams for Lunch" at 11:00a at Joe Willy's 2006 S. Goliad St. Rockwall, TX 75087
September 14 - "Krewe of CW Lunch" at 11:00a at Jason's Deli, 819 I-30 Frontage Rd, Ste 130, Rockwall, TX 75087. To find out about the Krewe go to Krewe of CW Net.
September 15 - Club Meeting at 7:00p at Soulman's BBQ, 691 East I30, Rockwall, TX 75087. Go to Monthly Club Meetings for more information.
September 19 - POTA at Tyler State Park under the K5RKW call sign. Participants also get credit for an activation as operators. For more details click on The Next Club POTA.
September 24 - "Hams for Lunch" at 11:00a at Joe Willy's 2006 S. Goliad St. Rockwall, TX 75087
September 26 - Radio at the Farmers Market. The RARC will be running manning a booth at the RFM. Come to the RFM and show your support for the RARC.
To see all the upcoming events for 2026 go to the RARC Events Calendar.
ARRL Field Day 2026
In 2025 after having poor band conditions on the upper bands limiting the number of operators who could get on the air we decided to try something new. This year we moved our field day site to the Dr Gene Burton College and Career Academy with our goal was to be able to operate class 8A and have eight operators on the air at the same time, four on phone and 4 on CW or Digital. We hoped the larger outdoor space the academy provided would allow us to setup antennas in a way that would allow 2 operators on each band 40 through 10 meters and not interfere with each other. After a lot of testing, a lot of trial and error, and still more testing we were able to raise 4 inverted V antennas and found a null where we could raise a multi-band vertical and not interfere with each other. Eight operators on four bands and field day was a big success. In addition the academy's school club was also able to operate a GOTA station under their call sign KR5ISD. Our thanks go out to the staff at the Burton Academy for hosting us and the Rockwall County OEM for the use the county's comm trailer. We look forward to doing this again in 2027.
Tuesday Nights with RARC
Tuesday night is meeting night for RARC. Join us each Tuesday night for our on air informational net. We meet on the KK5PP repeater*; 441.525 MHz PL 141.3 at 7:00pm. The only time we do not have this is on the 3rd Tuesday of the month when we have our club meeting.
Click Here for Details of RARC Face-to-Face Meetings at Soulman's BBQ
* Note: In the event that if the above repeater is not operational on net night a backup repeater, K5RKW is available at 442.8375 MHz Narrow FM with a PL tone of 162.2.
Latest Site Update
Latest Site Update
08/25/26 - Updated the ROTA contest page
08/23/26 - Updated upcoming events, added a hf propagation and added solar banner to the main page,
08/21/26 - Edited the main menu.
08/04/26 - Added Rockwall Ready announcement to upcoming events.
07/28/26 - Updated the upcoming events for August
07/13/26 - Uploaded the Field Day 2026 photos and corrected the meeting point for the TriRock Triathlon
Last Updated 08/25/26 -, Webmaster
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