The David Sarnoff Radio Club (“DSRC”) is a general-interest amateur radio club serving the greater Princeton, NJ area. Membership is open to anyone with an interest in amateur radio. There are no dues. DSRC is an ARRL affiliated club.
ARRL Field Day is June 28-29, 2025 #ARRLFD
Learn about our club’s plans for this event… HERE
(antennas 2024)
… and yes, Visitors Welcome (non-hams and hams!)
See our events page for monthly meeting and other events!
Also, you are welcome at our Monthly Meetings on the Third Tuesday of each month (except December and summer months)
Recent Club News:
- Morse Code Day 2025In honor of Morse and Vail’s first intercity telegraph message on May 24, 1844, and the connecting of Boston to Washington via New Jersey in 1846, we held a small commemoration and demonstration at the Kingston NJ Canal House and Telegraph House. The goal was to explain the use of the small white building, built as a toll house in 1834 and adapted for a telegraph office sometime in 1846. As part… Read More »
- Notes from May 2025 MeetingMeeting announcement (Edited) Once tuning an antenna was a lot of guesswork, with paper plottingof SWR and fiddling with matching sections. Now with a NanoVNA youcan see the match, and watch as you tune up an antenna… acrossthe band! If you have a NanoVNA, please bring it! Once sending email via VARA HF Winlink required using the currentsolar flux index to calculate a radio propagation model, then selectan HF RMS node from… Read More »
- 2025 N2RE Webpage for ARRL Field Day is up!Our guests are welcome to learn about the DSRC’s deployment for Field Day at: THIS LINK Our website also has a collection of old field day resources, Click the photo below. 0 0
- Pi Day 2025 HOORAY!March 14th Pi Day special event is over! With a half dozen operating stations we sent out pi day greetings to stations across the country and Europe and South America! Don on SSB, Ben on CW, John on FT8/FT4 on 10 &15, and Jeff, Adam, Walt, Fran, Rebecca at Charlie’s (photos from Charlie’s) Don is now assembling the contacts and uploading them to LOTW, etc. Soapbox Well, PI Day 2025 is in… Read More »
- Winter Field Day 2025 — Cold, Windy, FunWow! Two days of facing the challenges of winter portable operations.There are a ton of photos.Ben operates from a picnic table next to the playground– made 100 QSOs that way too! Photos: HERE 0 0
- Two Special DSRC Tuesday Nets
The “Flying Reindeer Net” on December 24 scanned the skies of central NJ, but none were reported. Thanks to those stations who provided their observations.For New Years Eve, we have a net for 7 PM Eastern, which is 0000Z Jan 1, 2025, and the start of “Straight Key Night” (See THIS LINK). As always, we will use the DSRC 2-Meter Repeater 0 0
… join us…
You can learn more about us on our page called “About Us”
To become a member, simply attend a club meeting, fill-out a membership application, and submit it the club secretary.
… feel free to explore ….
Here are some pages you may want to browse:
- About our Ham Radio Club, meetings, repeater, name
- Amateur Radio Links and Resources from area organizations
- Upcoming Events Our Calendar as a list or table
- Emergency Readiness and Organizations we work with
- Our club’s previous activities can be found via our Archive page
Download this quick reference .pdf to learn about us and ham radio:
Why did you call the website “N2RE.ORG”? Our club was granted the callsign “n2re” by the Federal Communications Commission. We use it for our repeater and when we operate radios as a group.
Our club also advertises special events for the Ham Radio community on the site “QRZ.com” Follow: this link.
To learn more about the hobby of Amateur Radio, follow this link: American Radio Relay League (ARRL.)
The DSRC is a primary sponsor of the Make Operating Radio Easier (MORE) Project, which provides FREE Technician license training, study materials, testing, licensing, Get On The Air activities, and MORE! Use this link http://n2re.org/m-o-r-e-project or the M.O.R.E. PROJECT tab at the top of this webpage to view the 2-step instructions to apply to be a student. We’re also looking for MORE group leaders, trainers and volunteer examiners.
And our latest blog posts:
- Morse Code Day 2025In honor of Morse and Vail’s first intercity telegraph message on May 24, 1844, and the connecting of Boston to Washington via New Jersey in 1846, we held a small commemoration and demonstration at… Read More »
- Notes from May 2025 MeetingMeeting announcement (Edited) Once tuning an antenna was a lot of guesswork, with paper plottingof SWR and fiddling with matching sections. Now with a NanoVNA youcan see the match, and watch as you tune… Read More »
- 2025 N2RE Webpage for ARRL Field Day is up!Our guests are welcome to learn about the DSRC’s deployment for Field Day at: THIS LINK Our website also has a collection of old field day resources, Click the photo below. 0 0
- Pi Day 2025 HOORAY!March 14th Pi Day special event is over! With a half dozen operating stations we sent out pi day greetings to stations across the country and Europe and South America! Don on SSB, Ben… Read More »
- Winter Field Day 2025 — Cold, Windy, FunWow! Two days of facing the challenges of winter portable operations.There are a ton of photos.Ben operates from a picnic table next to the playground– made 100 QSOs that way too! Photos: HERE 0… Read More »