St. Petersburg Amateur Radio Club
As mentioned on this website before, at the joint Field Day activities the clubs provide the food (but ask you bring a dish to share for dinner on Saturday). All other meals and drinks are provided. However, to accomplish this, we need an accurate count of who is coming so we buy the right amount of food. If you have not done so yet, please sign up for Field Day by clicking here.
If you are not sure if you signed up, you can check the signup sheet … Click for more
Hang around any group of hams in the springtime and eventually the subject of Field Day will come up. New people must be absolutely bewildered trying to understand this thing others speak of so fondly. So for those that may be new, or even those that know about Field Day but have not made it out to one in awhile, here is an overview.
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We will be conducting an education … Click for more
Here are the slides (.pdf) that Pat presented on Friday, May 3 at the SPARC meeting. It contains some great info for those who want to get started with Parks on the Air.
Pat, AA0O will present Parks on the Air (POTA) this Friday night, May 3 at the SPARC monthly meeting.
The presentation will explain the POTA program and Pat will bring along some of his equipment used in his quest to activate as many parks in the area as possible as well as tips on activating and hunting other activations.
AA0O will tell us about some of the local parks and his experiences. The presentation will include pictures from his activations and other participants around the country.
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Building on our half-time report, we completed the 2019 Florida QSO Party under very tough 40 meter conditions with 1185 QSOs. Our goal was to defend our 2018 Club win and get some new operators on the radios. We ran two stations—20 and 40 meters. 40 meters during the day was quite challenging as 10 and 15 meters are not much use nowadays. We had 630 CW QSOs and 555 SSB QSOs. Dave KR4U had the high … Click for more
We started the party Saturday April 27 at the club station at Noon. We had Bob N2ESP, Dave KR4U, Johnnie W4TSP, Dee N4GD, Tom NY4I, Rex KB8ESY, Ron KP2N and Glenn N4GRC as operators. We ran two stations the whole time with one on CW and one on SSB. Dave KR4U, Ron KP2N and Tom NY4I manned the CW station with the others working the SSB station. Our goal is to remain competitive with last year’s winning score as well as train a few … Click for more
