07/19/2025
St. Petersburg Amateur Radio Club
WinLink presentation by Mike Drake at SPARC’s July meeting. Email over radio, including concept, detailed operation, and how to set up your own WinLink station.
In this presentation by Mike, he starts with the basic concepts of email via radio and then goes into many of the features of WinLink. Finally, he discusses what is needed to set up your own WinLink station.
The St. Petersburg Amateur Radio Club held its annual Mobile Installation Contest at the Monthly Meeting on May 2, 2025.
Congratulations to this year’s winners: Lisa, KC1YL and Joe, W4GGJ.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the contest. A great time was had by all.
(photos by: Bruce, K2BHS)
Have you ever listened to a DX pile-up and heard someone yelling, “He’s working up, up!”? Do you know what that means? If not, Ryan AF4O (Wednesday 2m net control) at the next SPARC meeting on December 6th will give a presentation on operating split. He goes into the reasons to do so, when it is something you will encounter and other tips and tricks. In addition, his presentation goes through a bunch of current radios to show you exactly how to engage split mode on your specific radio. We will have all the usual things at the meeting, so we hope to see you there. More information about the meeting including where it is and a map to anyone new to SPARC can be found here.
Click here to see the presentation video
Thanks to Bruce, KF4TYA, the newsletter editor, the latest SPARC Gap contains club and member activities, including member builds, antenna activities, meeting pictures and notes, and club presentations. Click on the link below.
SPARC Newsletter v2n1-Apr 2024
Create your own submission and send it to Bruce for possible inclusion in an upcoming newsletter.
At the July club meeting Lisa, KC1YL, presented her POTA Operation, Setup, and Techniques. Learn about the many options for setting up and parks to work from. Check out the video link below.
SPARC members! Friday, Feb 2 is Home Brew Night! Let Carol – AB4YI, SPARC VP know what you have for the Show-and-Tell. Any radio project is acceptable – radio mods, antennas, go boxes, solar & batteries, rare QSL cards, etc.
