Welcome to the Durham FM Association
The Durham FM Association is a group of friendly amateur radio operators interested in all aspects of amateur radio service. Members in Durham, Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and surrounding areas of North Carolina enjoy operating through VHF and UHF repeaters sponsored and maintained by the club. Currently the club operates FM voice repeaters on 145.450-, 147.225+, 224.260-, 444.100+ and 444.450+ mhz(the plus and minus indicating standard offsets on the respective bands).
We meet on the 1st Tuesday of the month (see Calendar) with Dinner (optional) at 6:00pm and the business meeting and program at 7:00pm. We currently meet in the Mayflower Seafood Restaurant on 3742 Chapel Hill Boulevard in Durham. [click for map]
Our club runs a great hamfest toward the end of May each year. The Durhamfest was held in the Little River Community Center last year and is expected to be there again in 2008. Dealers sell new and used equipment, books, and parts. "Tailgaters" also offer much used equipment. Besides the buying, selling, and trading, door prizes and fellowship with old and new friends make this a real fun event.
This web page is a work in progress. Please give us feedback at the meeting telling us what you do and don't like on this web site. Thanks!
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Written by Kelly Pegram W4KSP
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
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Revisions for the 2008 DFMA directory are underway. Members who have paid 2008 dues will receive directories at the DurHamFest or by mail soon after. Members who have not yet paid 2008 dues will receive directories when dues are paid. To pay dues, please follow the directions under the DFMA home page menu item "Join the DFMA (or renew)". Please email Kelly (
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) with any last minute updates or changes to information for directory publication. Thank you for keeping your information current! For your privacy, directories are only provided to DFMA members and personal information is never sold. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 07 May 2008 )
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Written by J.D. "MAC" MACAULAY
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Friday, 25 April 2008 |
The next club meeting will be on Tuesday May 6th at the Mayflower Restaurant. Dinner will start at 6 PM followed by a brief business meeting and the program starting at 7 PM. The DurHamfest is right around the corner in May andso Paul VanDoren will review the status of preparations and help those interested find their place in making this one of the best DurHamfests ever. A special treat this year will be a robotics demonstration.The other major part of the meeting will be Show and Tell. SHOW & TELLBring in what you bought at the RARSFEST or what you have built recently – or even what you just found again and brought back to life. New rigs are always interesting to hear about – let’s see your latest gem. You can talk about it for 5 minutes or just set it up for us to see after the meeting. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 30 April 2008 )
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Written by J.D. "MAC" MACAULAY
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Thursday, 24 April 2008 |
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The Durham County ARES, which operates as a Special Interest Group in DFMA, provided communications support to the Durham VA Hospital Saturday April 12th. Under the leadership of Lisa Amour, KB9MGU, who is also the Secretary of DFMA, 12 licensed hams and the DFMA MCU were on site at the hospital during the several hour long planned telephone outage for system change-over. The MCU was operated as net control under the call NC4FD. For full details see the Durham ARES website http://www.durhamares.org |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 30 April 2008 )
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