Online Amateur Radio Community Wiki
You can join the Online Amateur Radio Community Discord Server at www.oarc.uk/join
Welcome to the Online Amateur Radio Community Wiki. We are a UK online based community, here to have fun and experiment with amateur radio – An Amateur Radio (Ham Radio) club providing members Support, Advice, and Community, without Committee. Our community is hosted on the popular Discord platform, that provides 24/7 chat and meeting facilities.
This is the Wiki for our community and has extra information on lots of different topics of radio and more.
Online ARC is a RSGB affiliated community that was formed on 28th May 2020 during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic. We have currently over 1,900 registered members registered on our Discord Server. We would ask anyone who would like to join to read our Constitution here.
Wiki registration is available on our Discord in the Wiki channel.
Activities
- The Rubber Duck Pub Night - 1st & 3rd Saturday each month is Pub Night
- OARC SOTA Activity Day 2024 - Details for 2024 and reports from 2022/2023 here
- Worked All OARC 2024 - Nets for the Worked All OARC 2024 season
- OARC's very own ADS-B Flight Tracking project - help feed us data!
- Packet radio - a very active project as we try and rebuild a network and learn about this technology
Member Pages
- Community Reps and Activity Leads - Who's Who on Discord
- New Member Info - New to OARC? Then this is for you.
- Membership Stats - Simple membership stats from Discord
- Member List - Added by members themselves
- Members Map - Added by Members
- Member Articles - DIY guides, tutorials, and member projects
- Pastebin - A space for members to paste notes or other text
Community Events
- Group Buy Builds - Starting with NinoTNC
- APRS Kit Build - Details to follow
- OARC Makers Show and Tell Night - Periodic, see page to sign up for talks or just to show interest
- List of Past Videos - from Community members
- JS8Call Net night - Thursday 28th July 2022 - 20:00 BST
Resources
- Club Callsigns - Club Callsigns available for use by members who are Full licensees.
- Advice - Wiki links for Advice now here - If in doubt start a page here
- A-Z List of Pages - complete list of all pages
- UK Callsign Checker Tool to search UK Amateur Radio Callsign in the Ofcom Database by Rupok - M7RCF
- Useful Links - all sorts of links for organisations, modes, software etc
- Slow to Medium Speed CW Net Format - the running order and glossary for our Slow to Medium Speed CW Net
- Ideas Page - A scratchpad for ideas for things to do or that need doing for OARC
- Brickworks Member Achievements
- Archive - Move links to pages no longer required on start page or elsewhere
- Sandboxes - Have a play on the wiki
- Dokuwiki Formatting - How to use Dokuwiki markup language
Social Media
Digital Bridge
- Allstar 47920
- D-Star Reflector XLX061C Dashboard
- Input XRF061AL or DCS061AL into Radio
- DMR TG 2348479 Last Heard
- Echolink Node 534369 / M0OUK-L
- Yaesu System Fusion YSF84338 Dashboard